North Carolina · Nonprofit
JUSTICEMATTERS INC
JUSTICEMATTERS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,885,447 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($605,932). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $231k
What Justicematters Inc does
Mission
Justicematters addresses the roots and repercussions of human trafficking. We do this by providing trauma-informed legal services throughout north carolina and promoting just policies and practices impacting our clients and community. Our vision is the freedom and flourishing of all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
At justicematters we provide preventive and restorative legal services. Some of our clients have survived human trafficking. Many more are at heightened risk of exploitation due to lack of legal status in the u.s., lack of legal security in a family, or prior experience of trauma. We protect the rights of our clients and provide high quality family law and immigration services, reducing the risk of exploitation and helping survivors rebuild their lives. Our services unlock access to education and employment, and help our clients attain safety, stability, and services impacting the well being of our clients and community as a whole. At its core, human trafficking is the exploitation of vulnerability for profit. At justicematters we also address the systems level issues that create and exacerbate vulnerability, providing professional training, engaging in collaborative partnerships and collective efforts, and advocating at the local, state, and national level. We're committed to centering the voices of our clients and community, elevating what we learn to prevent exploitation and promote better outcomes for all survivors in north carolina. Our clients are our neighbors and represent…
$1,531,268 spent$4,439 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,531,268.
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.
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 $467k to $351k (−25%).
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: 2020 48% · 2021 44% · 2022 57% · 2023 21% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of JUSTICEMATTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Magee Coles
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $56k → $259k.
9 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 JUSTICEMATTERS INC’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
JUSTICEMATTERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 JUSTICEMATTERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 47% · 2019 50% · 2020 44% · 2021 34% · 2022 40% · 2023 50% — 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 JUSTICEMATTERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
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
51% of JUSTICEMATTERS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $928k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $957k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Against its field
JUSTICEMATTERS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding JUSTICEMATTERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $800k on record.
- Department of Justice$800k
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 JUSTICEMATTERS INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 JUSTICEMATTERS INC: 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 JUSTICEMATTERS INC?
- JUSTICEMATTERS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,885,447 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($605,932). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JUSTICEMATTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,885,447 in grants to JUSTICEMATTERS INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUSTICEMATTERS INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $605,932 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUSTICEMATTERS INC 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.
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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 26 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