Arizona · Nonprofit
JUST COMMUNITIES ARIZONA
JUST COMMUNITIES ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $484,803 to it, the largest being The Primavera Foundation Inc ($257,803). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $485k
- Net assets
- $393k
What Just Communities Arizona does
Mission
To create, foster, and resource new models for safety and justice outside the punishment system. We work with people impacted by the punishment system to promote a holistic view of safety that encompasses physical, emotional, and economic health and wellness; cultivate the next generation of community leaders; and build community-based solutions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Just Communities has transitioned its focus from community safety, expungement and research to a singular focus on community safety and incubating community safety projects. This refreshed focus will enable JCA to carry out the work that it has become expert at over the past few years, resulting in more efficient utilization of public and government support, as well as deeper and more impactful outcomes within the communities it serves.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Our Community Safety programming encompasses two program focus areas: 1. Community Safety Incubator Projects and 2. Justice Reinvestment Subgrants in Maricopa County. Community Safety Incubator Projects are hyper-local, short-term projects led by local residents designed to increase safety and wellbeing in their communities. In 2025, we completed seven Community Safety Incubator Projects, exceeding our goal of six projects per year. Projects have ranged from community murals to planting pollinator gardens to setting up community water stations during the searing desert summer. We were honored to partner with members of the Tohono O'odham and Pascua Yaqui Nations on incubators based on tribal lands and serving native communities. In total, we invested over $50,000 into Tucson neighborhoods through Incubator projects. Survey responses confirm that participants in the incubator mirror the makeup of the neighborhood. The majority (70%) were BIPOC. The majority of respondents (56%) have been personally impacted by the criminal punishment system. And the reported impacts were overwhelmingly positive: 90% said the project made them feel safer in their neighborhood; 89% said it helped…
$1,047,375 spentof which $443,978 as grants100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,047,375.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $162k to $395k (+144%).
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: 2022 22% · 2023 70% · 2024 61% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of JUST COMMUNITIES ARIZONA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Caroline Isaacs
Executive Director
Board chair
Marilyn Rodriguez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $390k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 COMMUNITIES ARIZONA’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 COMMUNITIES ARIZONA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 COMMUNITIES ARIZONA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 66% — 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.
Where its funders are
62% of JUST COMMUNITIES ARIZONA's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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
JUST COMMUNITIES ARIZONA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like JUST COMMUNITIES ARIZONA
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JUST COMMUNITIES ARIZONA: 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 COMMUNITIES ARIZONA?
- JUST COMMUNITIES ARIZONA (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $484,803 to it, the largest being The Primavera Foundation Inc ($257,803). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUST COMMUNITIES ARIZONA have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $484,803 in grants to JUST COMMUNITIES ARIZONA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUST COMMUNITIES ARIZONA?
- The Primavera Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $257,803 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUST COMMUNITIES ARIZONA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 6 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