Washington · Nonprofit
CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER
CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,592,391 to it, the largest being EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ($375,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Children and Youth Justice Center does
Mission
The center for children & youth justice was founded in 2006 with one mission: reform the child welfare and juvenile justice systems to improve the lives of generations of children and youth in washington state. Our focus is large-scale, lasting systemic change. We carry out the capacity building, research, pilot projects, policy advocacy, and grassroots engagements that make change possible. We build diverse partnerships, pioneer, and pilot innovative reforms that support kids, stabilize families, and strengthen communities. No one else is doing this critical work.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ccyj manages four projects targeting youth justice system reform:the washington state becca task force was founded in 2002 to help support schools, courts, and service providers in carrying out the intent and goals of the mandatory school attendance, children in need of services (chins), and at-risk youth (ary) laws, collectively.known as the "becca laws." staffed by ccyj since 2008, the task force provides a forum to foster statewide collaboration between courts, schools, and service providers facilitate the initiation of research and training on the development and use of proven practice models to meet the needs and ensure success of youth and families before, during, or after a crisis and lead efforts in washington state to ensure that adequate funding, accountability mechanisms, and efficient and effective processes for carrying out the intent and goals of the becca laws are in place. The becca task force meets monthly to review current research and best practices examine system outcomes and identify gaps in carrying out the becca laws identify issues requiring reform of the state's becca laws, policies, and practices and strategize and coordinate efforts among its members to…
$1,146,335 spent$88,992 earned by the program52% of program spendingCcyj manages one project specific to child welfare system reform: early childhood courts is a portfolio that manages the statewide expansion of the safe babies court team (sbct) approach in washington. This approach was implemented in five counties, and planning is underway to expand to a sixth county in the next year. The sbct approach is a therapeutic court model that utilizes a community wide, systems-change approach that leverages collaboration among courts, child welfare, and community organizations. This approach has a strong focus on reducing trauma and providing more equitable and holistic supports to children under the age of three and their families in, or at risk of entering, the child welfare system. More frequent engagement occurs with families to elevate their voices, identify needs, track goals and progress, and problem-solve throughout the case. The sbct approach also focuses on supporting parent-child relationships and connecting them to appropriate, timely services. Ccyj supports this work through subcontracts with multiple court sites who utilize this approach in their court system, and provides ongoing technical support to each court site, as well as peer…
$591,243 spentof which $49,204 as grants27% of program spendingCcyj manages four projects that combine youth justice and child welfare systems reform: ccyj's project respect, launched in 2011, is building and sustaining a statewide, coordinated, and victim/survivor centered response to the commercial sexual exploitation of children in washington state. Project respect fulfills this goal by supporting regional multi-disciplinary task forces and coalitions that address csec, providing support to the csec statewide coordinating committee, and advocating for policy change. In 2023, project respect supported 11 regional task forces through facilitating a quarterly task force leads workshop individualized technical assistance at in-person county task force meetings individual consultations training opportunities and the facilitation of a statewide task force leads training, highlighting salient topics impacting young people impacted by csec. Equality was launched by ccyj in 2013 as a multi-phase project aimed at creating lasting systems reform and pathways to healthy stable adulthood for lgbtq+ youth involved in the child welfare and youth justice systems. Equality works to improve treatment of and outcomes for systems involved lgbtq youth. It is…
$483,306 spent22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,220,884.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $3.0M to $3.9M (+32%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 26% · 2018 23% · 2019 31% · 2020 39% · 2021 63% · 2022 22% · 2023 50% · 2024 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Rachel Sottile
President & CEO
Board chair
Dan Shih
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $452k → $582k.
12 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 21% · 2019 53% · 2020 20% · 2021 36% · 2022 17% · 2023 39% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
75% of CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $922k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER has grown faster than half of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.7M on record.
- Department of Justice$6.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER?
- CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,592,391 to it, the largest being EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ($375,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $3,592,391 in grants to CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER?
- EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 59 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing