North Carolina · Nonprofit
Criminal Justice Alternatives
Criminal Justice Alternatives (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,000 to it, the largest being THE SCHEICK-VERROCHI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($27,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $-59823
What Criminal Justice Alternatives does
Mission
To provide relevant information and program services to the Juvenile, District and Superior Court of Wake County, North Carolina.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Capital Area Teen Court operates as a first-offender peer-managed misdemeanor court, the judge of which is either an elected district court judge or a practicing attorney. The juvenile offender is sentenced by a jury of peers during the court hearing. The court teaches accountability, consequences and practical experiential learning about the mechanics of misdemeanor sentencing and legal processes as it relates to first offender juvenile defendants. Successful completion of the court-ordered sanctions results in complete dismissal and expungement of all charges brought to the Teen Court. Capital Area Teen Court defendants may be sentenced to the Youth Development Group as a possible sanction for the offense that was ordered at their Teen Court hearing. The Youth Development Group provides various skill-based educational experiences, pro-social group interactions, and an array of other hands-on activities to address communication, respect for authority, and appropriate decision-making. The group has between six (6) to ten (10) youth. It is offered for twelve (12), one and one half (1 1/2) hour sessions, twice a week, with parents attending the first and last sessions. The group is…
$297,952 spent14% of program spendingThe Pretrial Services/Monitoring Program provides pertinent information to the First Appearance District Court judge at the person's first appearance court hearing after being arrested and booked into the Wake County jail. The information includes prior criminal history, need for special conditions (e.g. no contact for domestic violence offenders, mental health history/needs, physical health history/needs) that are relevant for release considerations. Pretrial Services staff verifies the defendant's information with an uninvolved reference person suggested by the defendant. The Program allows certain defendants to be monitored in the community at minimal cost to the county, work to support themselves and their families while they are waiting for the Court case to be resolved.All offenders who are ordered to the Pretrial Release Program must report to their case manager on the next business day following their release from jail custody. The person is required to appear at all scheduled court dates, contact their assigned case manager (or designee) weekly on a specific day, and not be arrested for any additional charges. Additionally, they must comply with all pretrial release…
$836,094 spent40% of program spendingThe Pretrial Services/Monitoring program provides electronic monitoring, including Continuous Alcohol Monitoring, Electronic Monitoring and Electronic House Arrest, in a manner that provides an enhanced level of safety for Wake County citizens and surrounding communities while safely reducing the Wake County jail population.
$949,273 spent$304,102 earned by the program46% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,083,319.
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.
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 $111k to $52k (−53%).
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 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2021 81% · 2022 81% · 2023 81% · 2024 77% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Jennifer Gibbs
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 Criminal Justice Alternatives’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
Criminal Justice Alternatives leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% 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 Criminal Justice Alternatives.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Criminal Justice Alternatives's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Organizations like Criminal Justice Alternatives
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Criminal Justice Alternatives: 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 Criminal Justice Alternatives?
- Criminal Justice Alternatives (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,000 to it, the largest being THE SCHEICK-VERROCHI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($27,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Criminal Justice Alternatives have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $37,000 in grants to Criminal Justice Alternatives, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Criminal Justice Alternatives?
- THE SCHEICK-VERROCHI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $27,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Criminal Justice Alternatives find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing