California · Nonprofit
Community Justice Center
Community Justice Center (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $870,052 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($590,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $870k
- Net assets
- $445k
What Community Justice Center does
Mission
Cultivating individual and collective well-being, shared accountability, and healing through community-driven research and evidence-based restorative processes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
CJN: Community Justice Network: integrated community services that heal, guide, and elevate individuals, families, and neighborhoods through a coalition of community-based organizations and practitioners that collectively work together. CJN successfully developed collaborations with 20 partners throughout the first year of the project, actively involving 1,500 residents in conversations concerning issues of public safety, racial equality, and economic advancement. CJN partners engage in prevention (community), intervention (system impacted), reintegration (reentry) and education/training. Southwest Fresno was primary focus of CJN work.
$258,764 spent$226,544 earned by the program37% of program spendingCOSA: Circles of Support and Accountability envisions a world, community, workplace, and family where every person is valued and given the opportunity to take responsibility where harm is done, recognized, and restored, making things as right as possible with all parties involved. CJC COSA Fresno and COSA San Diego Programs have 0% recidivism, not one person accepted into a COSA circle has caused another crime or harm. COSA Fresno provided weekly reentry circles and services to 71 individuals: 10 released from prison into COSA circles, 21 released into COSA Reentry Circle; 20 COSA graduates in COSA Community Circle; 20 Full Circle Members in Avenal State Prison (bi-monthly). Ethnicity: 48% Hispanic, 23% White, 19% Black, 4% Asian, 6% Other. COSA San Diego provided reentry circles and services to 52 participants: 42 released from prison, 2 released from jail, and 8 conditional released participants at Liberty Healthcare. 40% White, 30% Hispanic, 20% Black, 10% Other.
$139,602 spent$98,172 earned by the program20% of program spendingCJC/VORP: Community Justice Conferencing/Victim Offender Reconciliation Program: youth diversion initiative for youth to accept responsibility for harm caused through family group conferencing and mediation with the parties harmed to make things as right as possible. 140 youth were referred to CJC/VORP: 106 Juvenile Court; 34 Juvenile Probation; 78% 15-19 years old; 27% 10-14 years old. 68% Hispanic, 16% Black, 7% White, 5% Asian; 4% other. CJC provides trained mediators to initiate, monitor, and completed 140 referrals through 565 Community Justice Conferences. These consist of a series of meetings between the responsible party/ parties (offender), harmed party/parties (victim), and their supportive individuals, with the assistance of a mediator to address harm, its impact, and an opportunity to make things as right as possible. An agreement is established and signed by the responsible party and harmed party/parties.
$137,922 spent$167,068 earned by the program20% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$163,400 spent23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $699,688.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $384k to $293k (−24%).
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: 2021 25% · 2022 40% · 2023 69% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of Community Justice Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Sheri Wiedenhoefer
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $30k → $262k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Community Justice Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Community Justice Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 68% · 2022 82% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
87% of Community Justice Center's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Community Justice Center has grown faster than three-quarters of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Community 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Community 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 Community Justice Center?
- Community Justice Center (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $870,052 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($590,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Justice Center have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $870,052 in grants to Community Justice Center, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Justice Center?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $590,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Justice Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 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