Colorado · Nonprofit
Justice for the People Legal Center
Justice for the People Legal Center (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $897,800 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($479,550). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $737k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $898k
- Net assets
- $253k
What Justice for the People Legal Center does
Mission
Justice for the People Legal Centers mission shall include but not be limited to the provision of legal services, grassroots organizing, and education to people and communities who have historically endured harm and trauma caused by our justice system in an effort to democratize, decolonize and liberate land, housing and wealth towards a solidarity economy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Direct Representation/Impact Litigation: 1. Impact litigation, collective lawsuits and class action lawsuits to provide material relief to thousands of tenants as well as to set enforcement precedent, shape future legislation, and bolster social movement work in general. 2. Individual eviction defense representation and legal advice. Over the last year, we have directly represented over 50 clients and are currently engaged in over a dozen class action lawsuits. Our impact litigation has the potential to materially benefit almost 80,000 households across Colorado, 17,000 of which are at 200% or below the federal poverty level. Our litigation work has been featured in over 30 media sources.
$200,000 spentof which $10,550 as grants30% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$200,000 spent30% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$269,182 spent40% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $669,182.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $371k to $309k (−17%).
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: 2023 9% · 2024 14% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Andrea Chiriboga-Flor
Executive Director
Board chair
Cesiah Guadarrama Trejo
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 the People Legal Center’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 the People Legal Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 the People Legal Center.
“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
83% of Justice for the People Legal Center's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $155k 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.
Organizations like Justice for the People Legal Center
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Justice for the People Legal Center: 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 the People Legal Center?
- Justice for the People Legal Center (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $897,800 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($479,550). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Justice for the People Legal Center have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $897,800 in grants to Justice for the People Legal Center, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Justice for the People Legal Center?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $479,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Justice for the People Legal Center 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 9 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing