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JUSTICE FOR NC

JUSTICE FOR NC (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,187,625 to it, the largest being IMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST ($4,430,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.0M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
$995
4/11 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Justice for Nc does

Mission

The organization's mission is to promote the common good and social welfare of North Carolina residents by conducting research, sponsoring educational activities and events, and disseminating accurate and timely information on the subject of North Carolina's Justice system.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Fair Courts - Justice For NC conducted research, and disseminated accurate and timely information concerning NC's Justice system. Justice For NC contributed grants to organizations for their work in educating and engaging voters on issues important to North Carolinians.

    $1,948,280 spentof which $220,000 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,948,280.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($29k)2022 Revenue 17 ($264k) Expenses 11 ($169k) Net assets 433 ($124k)2023 Revenue 245 ($3.9M) Expenses 251 ($4.0M) Net assets 236 ($67k)2024 Revenue 8 ($135k) Expenses 10 ($154k) Net assets 168 ($48k)2025 Revenue 127 ($2.0M) Expenses 131 ($2.1M) Net assets 3 ($995)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (127)Expenses (131)Net assets (3)Peer revenue range

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 $29k to $124k (+333%).

$29k
$124k
$67k
$48k
$995
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of JUSTICE FOR NC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’21
$95k
’22
−$56k
’23
−$19k
’24
−$47k
’25
0.0
months of
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.

2021202220232025
Listed2222
Joined····
No longer listed····
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $4.7M → $750k.

Funder
'18
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
$3.9M
$1.2M
$600k
Fuse Washingtonunclassified
$20k
funders
4
5
1
3
3
4

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 FOR NC’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 FOR NC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 FOR NC.

36%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 84% · 2020 43% · 2021 100% · 2022 93% · 2023 80% — 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

25% of JUSTICE FOR NC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

99% of JUSTICE FOR NC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

WA
CO
NC
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JUSTICE FOR NC's revenue grew 27% between 2021 and 2025.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like JUSTICE FOR NC

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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

2
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds JUSTICE FOR NC?
JUSTICE FOR NC (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,187,625 to it, the largest being IMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST ($4,430,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JUSTICE FOR NC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $12,187,625 in grants to JUSTICE FOR NC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JUSTICE FOR NC?
IMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST is the largest funder on record, with $4,430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JUSTICE FOR NC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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