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Justice Unlocked

Justice Unlocked (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $42,500 to it, the largest being The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc ($42,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$225k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$43k
Net assets
$-146836
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Justice Unlocked does

Mission

Justice Unlocked bridges the gap between those within the community who cannot afford an attorney, but don't qualify for legal assistance.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided legal assistance for over 125 cases that involved sexual assault and domestic violence

    $124,937 spent$115,052 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2021 Form 990. Program spending in total: $124,937.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($176k) Expenses 100 ($170k) Net assets 100 ($5k)2018 Revenue 111 ($195k) Expenses 115 ($196k) Net assets 539 ($28k)2019 Revenue 105 ($184k) Expenses 113 ($192k) Net assets -217 ($-11185)2020 Revenue 125 ($220k) Expenses 152 ($259k) Net assets -475 ($-24466)2021 Revenue 128 ($225k) Expenses 204 ($347k) Net assets -2852 ($-146836)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (128)Expenses (204)Net assets (-2852)

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 $94k to $247k (+162%).

$32k
$38k
$23k
$94k
$247k
20172018201920202021
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 15% · 2021 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
−$1k
’18
−$8k
’19
−$38k
’20
−$122k
’21
7.9
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.

20202021
Listed55
Joined·+1
No longer listed·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $23k → $20k.

Funder
'17
'18
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Justice Unlocked’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.

Where its funders are

100% of Justice Unlocked's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

IN

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

’17
’18
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like Justice Unlocked

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 Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

36% of spending goes to programs.

Program 36%Management 64%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Justice Unlocked: 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 Unlocked?
Justice Unlocked (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $42,500 to it, the largest being The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc ($42,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Justice Unlocked have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $42,500 in grants to Justice Unlocked, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Justice Unlocked?
The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $42,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Justice Unlocked find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 1 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