Idaho · Nonprofit
Idaho Justice Project
Idaho Justice Project (Idaho) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,250 to it, the largest being ACTION NOW INC ($86,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $36k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $139k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Idaho Justice Project does
Mission
To improve Idaho's justice system through public education, collaboration, and advocacy with the goal of reducing the size of the carceral system, reinvesting resources into the community to prevent crime, and restoring those currently involved in the criminal justice system, thus providing relief to the underprivileged, lessening the burdens of government, reducing inequality, and ensuring safe and healthy communities across the state.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Public Education: Idaho Justice Project had four main projects in 2023 including its projects focused on (1) juvenile fees, (2) women's incarceration in Idaho, and (3) drug crime sentences and the need for community-based treatment. Idaho Justice Project produced written materials, reports, blog posts, website content, social media content, and videos about the impact the criminal justice system has on Idahoans across the state, its costs, and changes that could be implemented to make the system more effective and to ultimately help create safer communities. In 2023, Idaho Justice Project continued its work on the three above-mentioned projects that it began working on in FY2022.First, Idaho Justice Project worked to educate the public and justice system stakeholders about the assessment and collection of juvenile fees in Idaho. Idaho Justice Project created a Juvenile Fees Coalition comprised of nonprofit organizations across the state, individuals impacted by juvenile fees, and attorneys committed to educating the public about the impact that juvenile fees have on youth and families, the impact that this outstanding court debt can have on youth as they age out of the juvenile…
$66,185 spent40% of program spendingCommunity Engagement: Idaho Justice Project assembled people impacted by the criminal justice system and those interested in improving the system in order to share their stories. Many people who have been involved in the criminal legal system often don't believe they have the ability to change it. As people who have been in prison or on probation or parole, these individuals often understand through first-hand experiences the factors and support systems that would have better enabled them to succeed or avoid incarceration in the first place. Through recurring meetings and creating a sense of community, Idaho Justice Project mobilized individuals who have been in the system to tell their story and use their experience for positive change for the women's incarceration, juvenile fees, and drug law projects. First, Idaho Justice Project hosted approximately six Juvenile Fees Coalition meetings comprised of nonprofit organizations across the state, individuals impacted by juvenile fees, high school and college students, and attorneys committed to educating the public about the impact that juvenile fees have on youth and families, and proposing alternatives to fund the courts that do…
$49,638 spent30% of program spendingCollaboration: Idaho Justice Project met with and established relationships with stakeholders from all aspects of the criminal legal system. Idaho Justice Project engaged with and partnered with concerned citizens, other nonprofit organizations, reentry providers, members of law enforcement, public defenders, elected leaders, agency leaders, and others in order to create positive change in Idaho that will provide relief to the underprivileged, lessen the burdens of government, reduce inequality, and ensure safe and healthy communities across the state. Idaho Justice Project lead or participated in statewide coalitions and/or meetings with other nonprofit partners in order to advance organizational and project goals. Idaho Justice Project is a member of many criminal justice organizations, coalitions, and groups working in the criminal justice sector. Specifically, in 2023, Idaho Justice Project participated in the Recovery Advocacy Group, the Women's Reentry Brown Bag Group, the Juvenile Fees Coalition, the Women's Incarceration Task Force, Idaho Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Legislative Committee, and Idaho Academy of Leadership for Lawyers, to name a few.
$33,092 spent20% of program spendingAdvocacy: Idaho Justice Project advocated for changes in criminal justice policy and changes to Idaho law as necessary to accomplish its mission of reducing the size of the criminal justice system and allocating more resources to community-based treatment. Idaho Justice Project engaged primarily in public education related to criminal justice policy issues in Idaho. The organization advocated for the passage of the Clean Slate Act and against a bill that would have imposed harsher sentences and penalties for drug crimes. Through its publications and policy research, the organization advocated generally for new policies eliminating the assessment and collection of fees against children involved in the juvenile justice system and policies that would reduce the number of women in prison in Idaho. Idaho Justice Project also conducted trainings to educate individuals and families about how to successfully communicate the need for new policies to lawmakers and justice system officials.
$16,546 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $165,461.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $154k to $3k (−98%).
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.
100% of Idaho Justice Project’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Erica Marshall
President & Executive Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $86k → $10k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Idaho 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
Idaho Justice Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 Idaho Justice Project.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 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
Idaho Justice Project draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Idaho, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k 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
Idaho Justice Project's revenue fell 58% between 2021 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,635 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like Idaho 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 Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Idaho 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 Idaho Justice Project?
- Idaho Justice Project (Idaho) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,250 to it, the largest being ACTION NOW INC ($86,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Idaho Justice Project have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $139,250 in grants to Idaho Justice Project, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Idaho Justice Project?
- ACTION NOW INC is the largest funder on record, with $86,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Idaho Justice Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 5 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