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JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS

JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,392,839 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($2,055,412). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$5.5M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$3.4M
Net assets
$1.1M
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Justice System Partners does

Mission

Justice System Partners is organized with a mission of changing justice systems to be more equitable, effective, and humane.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Providing support for the planning, design, and implementation of the john d. And cathenine t. Macarthur foundation criminal justice reform initiative, the safety and justice challenge.

    $748,948 spent
    16% of program spending
  2. Designing, piloting/implementing and testing the coaching model in three sites with funding from nij via unc charlotte.

    $581,294 spent
    13% of program spending
  3. Improving justice system responses to opioid, stimulant, and related substance use disorders with funding from bja via pennsylvania commission on crime and delinquency. Addressing pennsylvanias substance abuse epidemic through county-based implementation of evidence-based and innovative programs that are aimed at reducing overdose for probation and reentry populations.

    $489,832 spent
    11% of program spending
  4. Research, training, consultation and implementation support for a variety of criminal and juvenile justice initiatives in jurisdictions including fresno county (ca), multnomah county (or), and the administrative office of the illinois courts, and with funding from the laura and john arnold foundation, the annie e. Casey foundation, the national institute of corrections, and others.

    $2,785,974 spent$809,297 earned by the program
    60% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,606,048.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets 100 ($544k)2018 Revenue 112 ($2.3M) Expenses 116 ($2.0M) Net assets 142 ($773k)2019 Revenue 119 ($2.4M) Expenses 151 ($2.6M) Net assets 99 ($537k)2020 Revenue 90 ($1.8M) Expenses 112 ($2.0M) Net assets 71 ($386k)2021 Revenue 129 ($2.6M) Expenses 119 ($2.1M) Net assets 167 ($907k)2022 Revenue 222 ($4.5M) Expenses 232 ($4.1M) Net assets 241 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 265 ($5.3M) Expenses 305 ($5.3M) Net assets 243 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 274 ($5.5M) Expenses 330 ($5.8M) Net assets 194 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (274)Expenses (330)Net assets (194)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $2.5M (+88%).

$1.4M
$1.5M
$830k
$1.3M
$2.5M
$3.3M
$2.5M
$2.4M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 14% · 2020 15% · 2021 25% · 2022 16% · 2023 27% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,024 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$265k
’17
$229k
’18
−$236k
’19
−$151k
’20
$521k
’21
$406k
’22
$7k
’23
−$263k
’24
3.5
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.

Board chair

Elyse Clawson

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed45679121315
Joined·+2+1+1+2+3+2+5
No longer listed·1000013
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $80k → $1.0M.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 SYSTEM PARTNERS’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 SYSTEM PARTNERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

28% 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 SYSTEM PARTNERS.

61%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 84% · 2022 55% · 2023 90% — 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

50% of JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 5 states in all.

IL
NY
VA
MD
TX

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $161k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS has grown faster than half of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · below the median
Months of reserve3.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $833k on record.

Federal$833k
grants $833kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$833k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS

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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

75%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OR

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS: 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 SYSTEM PARTNERS?
JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,392,839 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($2,055,412). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $3,392,839 in grants to JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS?
LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,055,412 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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