Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
JUST FUTURES LAW INC
JUST FUTURES LAW INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,619,915 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION ($1,441,775). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Just Futures Law Inc does
Mission
Just futures law, inc. (the "charity") was founded to advance respect for human and civil rights by litigating to defend the rights of people secured by law, educating the public about human and civil rights violations, and providing a home for lawyers working to improve conditions for people who are experiencing and/or being threatened by unjust criminalization, detention, and deportation practices in the united states. The charity's approach centers the leadership and lived experience of people whose human and civil rights have been violated by american criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems. The charity works in partnership with immigrant and racial justice organizers to develop legal and advocacy strategies aimed at preventing the criminalization, detention, and deportation of immigrants and people of color in the united states, to file legal cases that defend human and civil rights secured by law and challenge threats to those rights, and to educate the public about
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Just futures law defends and builds the power of immigrants' rights and criminal justice activists, organizers, and community groups working to defend against deportation and mass incarceration systems. This includes cutting-edge work around the technology and surveillance tools used to further deportation. A defining principle of jfl is that policy advocacy and litigation must be designed and executed with community and organizing groups.
$1,024,039 spent$1,668 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,024,039.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $2.6M (+142%).
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: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of JUST FUTURES LAW INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $373k → $1.2M.
8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 FUTURES LAW INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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 FUTURES LAW INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 JUST FUTURES LAW INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 25% · 2022 24% · 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
67% of JUST FUTURES LAW INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 58% 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
JUST FUTURES LAW INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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 FUTURES LAW INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like JUST FUTURES LAW 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 10 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JUST FUTURES LAW 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 FUTURES LAW INC?
- JUST FUTURES LAW INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,619,915 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION ($1,441,775). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUST FUTURES LAW INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $7,619,915 in grants to JUST FUTURES LAW INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUST FUTURES LAW INC?
- THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,441,775 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUST FUTURES LAW 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing