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CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY

CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY (Missouri) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,352,657 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($330,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.0M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$4.4M
13/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Criminal Justice Ministry does

Mission

To improve our communities by supporting and empowering those impacted by incarceration.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. CJM's scattered site reentry housing programs, known as Release to Rent, provide transitional housing and support services to individuals recently released from incarceration, helping them successfully reintegrate into the community.

    $1,824,025 spent
    89% of program spending

  2. First Services program provides initial support and case management services to individuals transitioning from incarceration.

    $231,122 spent
    11% of program spending

  3. Other program services supporting reentry and community integration initiatives.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,055,147.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($620k)2018 Revenue 124 ($1.7M) Expenses 120 ($1.3M) Net assets 167 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 139 ($1.9M) Expenses 160 ($1.7M) Net assets 200 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 162 ($2.2M) Expenses 185 ($1.9M) Net assets 241 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 142 ($1.9M) Expenses 184 ($1.9M) Net assets 241 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 169 ($2.3M) Expenses 196 ($2.1M) Net assets 278 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 134 ($1.8M) Expenses 215 ($2.2M) Net assets 207 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 145 ($2.0M) Expenses 211 ($2.2M) Net assets 168 ($1.0M)2025 Revenue 445 ($6.0M) Expenses 259 ($2.7M) Net assets 709 ($4.4M)
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Revenue (445)Expenses (259)Net assets (709)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.7M to $5.9M (+117%).

$639k
$2.2M
$3.1M
$3.9M
$3.7M
$3.7M
$3.6M
$2.7M
$5.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 47% · 2018 37% · 2019 38% · 2020 51% · 2021 63% · 2022 49% · 2023 48% · 2024 55% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,394 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$307k
’17
$418k
’18
$205k
’19
$252k
’20
$1k
’21
$227k
’22
−$437k
’23
−$241k
’24
$3.3M
’25
15
months of
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.

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Listed131515141415101110
Joined·+5+1+4+1+3+0+2+3
No longer listed·31512514
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $115k → $56k.

Funder
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total
AIDS Unitedunclassified
$25k
funders
4
4
6
10
11
11
7
9
5
1

6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 MINISTRY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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

CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

54% 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 MINISTRY.

24%
largest funder
60%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 94% · 2019 37% · 2020 32% · 2021 27% · 2022 29% · 2023 36% — 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.

How long its funders stay

60% of CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

79% of CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

NY
MA
MO
NC
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $549k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin55% · top quartile
Months of reserve15.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.6M on record.

Federal$6.6M
grants $6.6Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$6.6M

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 CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY

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 Missouri

Journey to New Life INC77%Communities of Recovery Inc77%Center for Women in Transition Dba Keyway Center for Diversion & Reentry76%Options for Justice for Persons With Developmental Disabilities74%Communities First73%The Soulfisher Ministries73%In2action72%The Alpha House of Springfield72%

Nationally

Chattahoochee Valley Jail Ministry Inc Dba Safehouse Ministries80%Criminal Justice and Mercy Ministries of Oklahoma Inc79%Citizens for Community Justice Inc79%Community Resources for Justice Inc78%Through God Comes Justice Ministries78%Centurion Ministries Inc78%Freedom Fighting Missionaries Inc77%5-2 Ministries77%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 22%Fundraising 2%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY: 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 MINISTRY?
CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY (Missouri) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,352,657 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($330,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,352,657 in grants to CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY?
ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 23 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