Ohio · Nonprofit
JUSTICE FOR SIERAH
JUSTICE FOR SIERAH (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,068 to it, the largest being TOLEDO CLASSIC INC ($12,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $140k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $583k
What Justice for Sierah does
Mission
Justice for Sierah's mission is to empower communities through self-defense, advocacy, and support to prevent violence and protect lives. Our vision is for young people to grow, learn, and thrive in safe, supportive communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The "sierah strong" self-awareness & defense program is provided to the community free of charge. The organization teaches young people ages 6 - 16 how to defend themselves in dangerous situations & provides laminated kidprint ids that feature the child's photo, fingerprint & vital statistics to help find a missing child.almost 900 young people have been taught valuable skills thru the sierah strong program since its inception in 2019.due to the success of the sierah strong community program, the "sierah strong for the schools" program has been developed to bring self-awareness & defense training into schools.
$24,136 spent100% of program spendingIn december 2018, after educating ohio lawmakers on the value of a violent offender database in providing community awareness & expediting the process of funding kidnapped individuals, "sierah's law" was passed unanimously in the ohio house with a vote of 85-0. The passage of sierah's law created a database that can now be used by law enforcement & everyday citizens to find out where violent offenders live in our communities.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,136.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $403k to $558k (+38%).
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.
32% of JUSTICE FOR SIERAH’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $7k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 SIERAH’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 SIERAH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 SIERAH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 90% · 2021 70% · 2022 85% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
84% of JUSTICE FOR SIERAH's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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.
Against its field
JUSTICE FOR SIERAH holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like JUSTICE FOR SIERAH
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
21% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JUSTICE FOR SIERAH: 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 FOR SIERAH?
- JUSTICE FOR SIERAH (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,068 to it, the largest being TOLEDO CLASSIC INC ($12,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUSTICE FOR SIERAH have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $30,068 in grants to JUSTICE FOR SIERAH, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUSTICE FOR SIERAH?
- TOLEDO CLASSIC INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUSTICE FOR SIERAH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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