California · Nonprofit
Just Communities Central Coast
Just Communities Central Coast (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,602,747 to it, the largest being JAMES S BOWER FOUNDATION ($425,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $16k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $7k
What Just Communities Central Coast does
Mission
At Just Communities we work to ensure that Central Coast schools, organizations, and communities are places of opportunity, not places of limitation. We advance justice by engaging our community in leadership development, dialogue, action planning, and mobilizing for social change. We bring together community members and empower them to be leaders who promote equity around issues of race, socio-economic class, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, language, ability, and other identities.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Based on multiple factors, including insufficient funding, structural deficits and changes in the external environment, Just Communities Central Coast (JCCC)s Staff and Board of Directors have decided, with a very heavy heart, to close the organization effective August 31, 2022. More than twenty years ago, JCCC emerged as one of the leading social justice organizations in our Tri-County region and we are exceedingly proud of our impact on the community, especially in the areas of education justice and language justice. In collaboration with youth, families, educators and many other local organizations, JCCC worked tirelessly to help close the achievement and opportunity gaps and inequalities throughout the areas we served, particularly in the Santa Barbara Unified School District (SB Unified). Thousands of students, teachers, staff, and administration officials benefited from JCCC-led educational experiences on implicit bias, racism, sexism, heterosexism, class privilege, and other forms of oppression and injustice.
$13,998 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,998.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $499k to $126k (−75%).
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 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Just Communities Central Coast’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 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
S Courtney Walton
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $306k → $16.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Central Coast’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 Central Coast has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 26% · 2019 49% · 2020 26% · 2021 26% · 2022 34% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of Just Communities Central Coast's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
98% of Just Communities Central Coast's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Communities Central Coast's revenue fell 98% between 2019 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,028 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like Just Communities Central Coast
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
13% 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 Just Communities Central Coast: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Just Communities Central Coast?
- Just Communities Central Coast (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,602,747 to it, the largest being JAMES S BOWER FOUNDATION ($425,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Just Communities Central Coast have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,602,747 in grants to Just Communities Central Coast, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Just Communities Central Coast?
- JAMES S BOWER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $425,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Just Communities Central Coast 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.
Play a game about who funds Just Communities Central Coast →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 22 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