Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
JUST ASSOCIATES INC
JUST ASSOCIATES INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,025,397 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($10,000,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Just Associates Inc does
Mission
To promote social justice, gender equality and human rights on an international basis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cross regional - jass cross regional facilitates south-south and south-north knowledge exchanges to capture and share lessons from practice about women's movement-building, while also leveraging jass's international influence to mobilize solidarity with the local-to-global networks that drive jass' work.
$1,799,247 spentof which $145,243 as grants$69,978 earned by the program32% of program spendingMeso america - jass mesoamerica stengthens, sustains and mobilizes local to regional networks among diverse women activists and organizations in mexico and central america to better confront the regions growing violence and inequality by creating safe spaces for reflection, skill building and wellbeing. Jass builds bridges among women, women right defenders for enhanced influence and safety.
$1,576,352 spentof which $256,422 as grants28% of program spendingSouth africa - jass southern africa works with a range of organizations and community leaders from grassroots hiv activists to lgbtq organizers and faith base leaders to empower and support activists and their organizations while building their collective power to address practical needs, fight stigma and influence decision makers.
$1,247,951 spentof which $189,360 as grants22% of program spendingSoutheast asia
$954,659 spentof which $132,755 as grants17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,578,209.
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 2019 to 2020, from $5.4M to $28M (+424%).
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 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of JUST ASSOCIATES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Shereen Essof
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income rose $248k → $639k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 JUST ASSOCIATES INC’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
JUST ASSOCIATES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
60% 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 JUST ASSOCIATES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 74% · 2019 66% · 2020 34% · 2021 60% · 2022 84% · 2023 48% — 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
57% of JUST ASSOCIATES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
59% of JUST ASSOCIATES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7.3M that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
JUST ASSOCIATES INC has grown faster than half of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like JUST ASSOCIATES INC
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 JUST ASSOCIATES INC: 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 JUST ASSOCIATES INC?
- JUST ASSOCIATES INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,025,397 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($10,000,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JUST ASSOCIATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $18,025,397 in grants to JUST ASSOCIATES INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUST ASSOCIATES INC?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUST ASSOCIATES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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