California · Nonprofit
Jewish Center for Justice
Jewish Center for Justice (California) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,278,559 to it, the largest being Wurwand Foundation ($560,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $888k
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $826k
What Jewish Center for Justice does
Mission
Founded in 2017, the Jewish Center for Justice (JCJ) is a distinguished social justice, education, and leadership development platform that meets each individual where they are in their journey to inspire change. JCJ's mission is to empower current and future leaders to build a more compassionate and just society.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Fiscal Sponsorship of Jews United for Democracy and Justice (JUDJ). JUDJ is a fully fiscally sponsored project of Jewish Center For Justice (JCJ). The primary mission of the JUDJ project is to educate the public to understand the critical importance of preserving American democracy. JUDJ fulfills its mission through weekly virtual town hall programming which JUDJ produces under the name America at a Crossroads AC. Between April 2020 and December 2023, JUDJ produced more than 150 weekly AC programs. Each program attracted a virtual audience averaging 4,000 viewers weekly. The programs focus primarily on issues such as voting rights, election law, civil rights and other personal constitution rights, freedom of the press, the dangers of racism and antisemitism, electoral college, and other related issues. Another aspect of JUDJ's work is a newsletter communication which is sent out to 40,000 subscribers at least twice per week. The newsletter contains links to what JUDJ views as the most compelling articles from various news sources. JUDJ's email newsletters enjoy an unusually high 50-60% open rate since 2020.
$406,543 spentof which $379,509 as grants$534,437 earned by the program76% of program spendingLeadership Development: JCJ works with individuals and educating them on next generation leadership on college campuses, seminaries, and high school fellows.
$71,636 spent13% of program spendingEducation: JCJ works with various cohorts teaching the value of Jewish texts in a modern context. JCJ worked with synagogues to run their Jewish educational programs.
$27,864 spent5% of program spendingAdvocacy: JCJ supports joining numerous coalitions to speak out for the homeless and disenfranchised.
$26,159 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $532,202.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $631k to $826k (+31%).
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.
97% of Jewish Center for Justice’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Rabbi Joel Simonds
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $28k → $190k.
11 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Jewish Center for Justice’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
Jewish Center for Justice leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 Jewish Center for Justice.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 43% · 2019 69% · 2020 63% · 2021 56% · 2022 43% · 2023 45% — 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
31% of Jewish Center for Justice's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
94% of Jewish Center for Justice's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $392k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Jewish Center for Justice runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Jewish Center for Justice
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
76% 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 Jewish Center for Justice: 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 Jewish Center for Justice?
- Jewish Center for Justice (California) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,278,559 to it, the largest being Wurwand Foundation ($560,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Jewish Center for Justice have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $1,278,559 in grants to Jewish Center for Justice, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Jewish Center for Justice?
- Wurwand Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $560,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Jewish Center for Justice 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 49 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing