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Just City Inc

Just City Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,376,825 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($1,694,728). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.5M
Funders on record
37
Grants received
$5.4M
Net assets
$2.1M
25/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 83%
01What it does

What Just City Inc does

Mission

We pursue a smaller, fairer, and more humane criminal justice system for families and communities. See Schedule O for full Mission

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Clean Slate Fund - Exists to support criminal record expungement in Shelby County. The Clean Slate Fund provides assistance financially for expungement fees, filing fees along with legal and administrative services. Just City will provide representation in the court.

    $733,263 spentof which $719,721 as grants$1,474,918 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $733,263.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($913k) Expenses 100 ($953k) Net assets 100 ($422k)2018 Revenue 101 ($919k) Expenses 58 ($557k) Net assets 162 ($682k)2019 Revenue 88 ($806k) Expenses 63 ($603k) Net assets 210 ($885k)2020 Revenue 142 ($1.3M) Expenses 94 ($896k) Net assets 305 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 84 ($768k) Expenses 108 ($1.0M) Net assets 409 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 120 ($1.1M) Expenses 121 ($1.2M) Net assets 396 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 162 ($1.5M) Expenses 112 ($1.1M) Net assets 492 ($2.1M)
2017201820192020202220232024
Revenue (162)Expenses (112)Net assets (492)Peer revenue range

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 $909k to $1.4M (+53%).

$459k
$726k
$909k
$1.4M
$1.8M
$1.9M
$2.2M
2017201820192020202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of Just City Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,392 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$41k
’17
$362k
’18
$203k
’19
$403k
’20
−$262k
’22
−$55k
’23
$405k
’24
12
months of
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

Josh Spickler

Executive Director

Board chair

Mr Alexander Wharton Esq

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2017201820192020202220232024
Listed991111869
Joined·+0+4+0·+3+4
No longer listed·020·51
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 19 funders, grant income rose $111k → $846k.

12 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 City Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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

Just City Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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

59% 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 City Inc.

32%
largest funder
62%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 87% · 2019 72% · 2020 56% · 2021 49% · 2022 34% · 2023 27% — 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

50% of Just City Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

56% of Just City Inc's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

MI
NY
MA
OR
NJ
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Just City Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · top quartile
Months of reserve12.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Just City 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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 21%Fundraising 10%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

UT

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Questions and answers

Who funds Just City Inc?
Just City Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,376,825 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($1,694,728). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Just City Inc have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $5,376,825 in grants to Just City Inc, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Just City Inc?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,694,728 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Just City Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 37 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