California · Nonprofit
JAIL GUITAR DOORS
JAIL GUITAR DOORS (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $887,196 to it, the largest being THE GUMERLOCK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($197,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $887k
- Net assets
- $290k
What Jail Guitar Doors does
Mission
Jail Guitar Doors usa works toward a more fair & just america. We are a 501c3 non-profit organization that provides musical instruments & mentorship to help rehabilitate prisoners through the transformative power of music. We implement prison programs & produce concert events. We advance new solutions to diminish prison violence & recidivism rates. We support organizations that engage in policy reform efforts & partner with social service groups to help people in prison successfully rejoin the outside world.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
County of los angeles secure youth treatment facility step down describe (sytf) - court ordered housing and wrap around re-entry services for youth released from incarceration elevate youth - 3 year project that started january 2025. Substance use disorder prevention, education and advocacy grant sor4 july 1, 2025 through august 2026 opioid and stimulant use disorder prevention and education grant for communities of color gender based violence june 16, 2025 gender based violence prevention program for young men county of los angeles dept of youth development (ladydray) march 2025 reentry action for youth program california arts council: queer liberation october 1, 2026 created multidiscipline project celebrating evolving expressions entitled "queer liberation series and exhibition"
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The organization added housing as a service to youth getting out of probation camps.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Organize and implementation of prison and "at risk" juvenile outreach programs through music, songwriting and concert events. Provide musical instruments to help rehabilitate prisoners.
$2,306,193 spentof which $6,816 as grants$3,255,976 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,306,193.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $658k to $292k (−56%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 4% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of JAIL GUITAR DOORS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Margaret Saadi Kramer
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $36k → $181k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 JAIL GUITAR DOORS’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
JAIL GUITAR DOORS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
28% 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 JAIL GUITAR DOORS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 75% · 2019 58% · 2020 27% · 2021 36% · 2022 44% · 2023 41% — 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
45% of JAIL GUITAR DOORS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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. 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 JAIL GUITAR DOORS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
JAIL GUITAR DOORS has grown faster 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
Government funding JAIL GUITAR DOORS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $46k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$46k
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 JAIL GUITAR DOORS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 JAIL GUITAR DOORS: 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 JAIL GUITAR DOORS?
- JAIL GUITAR DOORS (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $887,196 to it, the largest being THE GUMERLOCK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($197,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAIL GUITAR DOORS have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $887,196 in grants to JAIL GUITAR DOORS, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAIL GUITAR DOORS?
- THE GUMERLOCK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $197,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAIL GUITAR DOORS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing