Colorado · Nonprofit
Justice Defense Fund
Justice Defense Fund (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,234,578 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,013,600). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Micah 68 Foundationshared funders
- Dressember Foundationportfolio match
- Human Investment Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $836k → $611k.
7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 Defense Fund’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 Defense Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 Defense Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 96% · 2022 39% · 2023 89% — 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
58% of Justice Defense Fund's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.4M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Micah 68 Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 19 organizations that share your funders
- Dressember Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Human Investment Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jensen Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calyx Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shared Hope Internationalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for the Improvement of Justiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Academy of Trial Lawyers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Nonviolenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lakeshore Foundation Dated April 5 2011portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Religious Campaign Against Tortureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pinetops Foundationshared fundersOR · backs 25 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Justice Defense Fund
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Justice Defense Fund 1 LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Justice Defense Fund: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Justice Defense Fund?
- Justice Defense Fund (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,234,578 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,013,600). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Justice Defense Fund have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $3,234,578 in grants to Justice Defense Fund, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Justice Defense Fund?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,013,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Justice Defense Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 16funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing