Maryland · Nonprofit
JUSTICE ARTS COALITION INC
JUSTICE ARTS COALITION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $992,718 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($456,050). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $334k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $993k
- Net assets
- $441k
What Justice Arts Coalition Inc does
Mission
Justice arts coalition (jac) unites teaching artists, arts advocates, artists who are or have been incarcerated and their allies, harnessing the transformative power of the arts to reimagine justice
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Arts programming and artist engagement: 2022 saw the expansion of correspondarts, marylands first multi-disciplinary distance learning arts program to 75 participants within 5 facilities (from the previous years 21 participants in 2 maryland facilities). Jac maintained its digital archive on our website featuring more than 280 portfolios of visual and written work, curated online galleries, interviews with artists, a national program directory, resource library, and blog posts by artists and advocates inside the outside of prison. Jac launched artsconnects us, a semi-annual newsletter mailed to network artists who are incarcerated. Jac additionally launched the recording project which, through recorded phone interviews, enables artists to contextualize their work in their own voices and contribute to public discourse. Jac organized 7 exhibitions with partner organizations this year, introducing 350+ works of more than 60 network artists to diverse new audiences.
$203,307 spentof which $24,974 as grants$1,744 earned by the program91% of program spendingCommunity events: this year, jac hosted community members at 9 artlinks events in an effort to showcase the talents of network artists and provide and avenue for them to receive feedback. Over 150 patrons viewed artists new work and shared their reflections with the artists through letter writing.
$19,436 spent9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $222,743.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $66k to $569k (+765%).
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 0% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of JUSTICE ARTS COALITION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
Board chair
Johnsenia Brooks
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $200k → $54k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 JUSTICE ARTS COALITION 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
JUSTICE ARTS COALITION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 JUSTICE ARTS COALITION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 86% — 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
JUSTICE ARTS COALITION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $462k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
JUSTICE ARTS COALITION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like JUSTICE ARTS COALITION 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
49% 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 JUSTICE ARTS COALITION 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 JUSTICE ARTS COALITION INC?
- JUSTICE ARTS COALITION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $992,718 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($456,050). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUSTICE ARTS COALITION INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $992,718 in grants to JUSTICE ARTS COALITION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUSTICE ARTS COALITION INC?
- ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $456,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUSTICE ARTS COALITION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), 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