Oregon · Nonprofit
FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT
FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $171 to it, the largest being HELEN & WILLIAM MAZER FOUNDATION ($150). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $455k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $171
- Net assets
- $297k
What Forensic Justice Project does
Mission
To prevent and correct wrongful convictions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Forensic Justice Project helps attorneys in oregon to understand and challenge faulty or misleading forensic evidence, or develope helpful forensic evidence, in criminal cases. During 2025, we provided direct representation, case support, or referrals in over 72 cases in oregon. We also continued our work on a long-term project working with academic partners to research the scientific validity of specific forensic methods that have been known to result in wrongful convictions.
$408,320 spentof which $42,700 as grants$450,644 earned by the program75% of program spendingThe Forensic Justice Project works to improve oregon law through strategic litigation in select cases involving forensics.
$76,778 spent14% of program spendingThe Forensic Justice Project works to educate and train other lawyers to address forensics in criminal cases and to educate the courts on issues that relate to forensics. During 2025, we taught at least 9 seminar classes.
$56,764 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $541,862.
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 $183k to $391k (+114%).
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.
1% of FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $166.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT’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
FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 90% — 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
FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21 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
FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$2.6M
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED REIMBURSEMENTS$10k
- INSTATE LODGING$2k
- INSTATE MEALS WITH OVERNIGHT STAY$1k
- INSTATE MILEAGE REIMBURSMNT-NONEMPLOYEE$503
- INSTATE TRAVEL MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES$445
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 FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT: 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 FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT?
- FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $171 to it, the largest being HELEN & WILLIAM MAZER FOUNDATION ($150). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $171 in grants to FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT?
- HELEN & WILLIAM MAZER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2019–2025), 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