New York · Nonprofit
FINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INC
FINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,957,363 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($8,889,158). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Fines and Fees Justice Center Inc does
Mission
The fines and fees justice center, inc. ("ffjc") is the only national organization focused exclusively on the unjust and harmful fines and fees imposed in the legal system. Through education and advocacy, ffjc works to create a justice system that treats individuals fairly, cont'd.ensures public safety and community prosperity, and is funded equitably. Ffjc works collaboratively with affected communities and justice system stakeholders to eliminate fees in the justice system, ensure fines are equitably imposed, and end abusive collection practices.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Justice programs: using our policy expertise and on-the-ground experience, we develop models for reform that can help communities pursue the type of fines and fees reform that makes sense for them. These efforts have enabled us to accelerate state-level policy change through two major national campaigns: free to drive and end justice fees as well as local-based reform through our cities and counties for fine and fee justice leadership initiative. We partner with advocates, policymakers, and community organizations to build, strengthen, and entrench a resilient bipartisan movement for legislative and policy reform at the local, state and national level. Our efforts in new mexico, nevada, and new york have changed state and local policy, ended cruel punishments, and helped us build models for reform. The cont'd.policy solutions we have successfully supported have stopped the extraction of billions of dollars from the communities that most need those resources.
$3,338,291 spentof which $155,000 as grants71% of program spendingResearch and policy: we conduct original research, collect data on the impacts of criminal legal debt, and author policy recommendations on key issue areas in the field. Together these resources are compiled, along with research and tools from other scholars and partners, in ffjc's clearinghouse - an online repository of ffjc-vetted and summarized resources that advocates can use to inform their campaigns.
$717,127 spent15% of program spendingCommunications: we educate the public and policymakers about the harms of fines and fees, and the policy solutions that improve economic conditions for individuals and communities. We amplify and disseminate best practices, policy guidance and critical research to evidence based solutions.
$670,658 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,726,076.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $17M to $16M (−6%).
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.
91% of FINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INC’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 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 FINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INC’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
FINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 FINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INC.
“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
83% of FINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.6M that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 7 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M 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.
Against its field
FINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INC: 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 FINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INC?
- FINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,957,363 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($8,889,158). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $14,957,363 in grants to FINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INC?
- NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,889,158 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 13 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