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North Carolina · Nonprofit
FORWARD JUSTICE (North Carolina) is funded by 49 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $24,503,603 in grants to it, the largest being The Ford Foundation ($4,402,500). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FORWARD JUSTICE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,128 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,128 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
69% of FORWARD JUSTICE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
The base broadened — 2 funders to 21 as grant income moved $36k → $4.9M.
11 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 FORWARD JUSTICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. Association, not causation.
FORWARD JUSTICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 56% · 2019 38% · 2020 19% · 2021 39% · 2022 23% · 2023 21% · 2024 25% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
23% of FORWARD JUSTICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
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.
FORWARD JUSTICE draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 49 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
71% of spending goes to programs.
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 49funders 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. view filing