Minnesota · Nonprofit
JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL
JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $592,671 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($350,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $225k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $593k
- Net assets
- $-19235
What Juvenile Justice Advocates International does
Mission
Our vision is that children should only be imprisoned as a last resort, in extreme circumstances, and for the shortest period of time possible.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Alternatives to Detention: We fully handed over our ATD projects in Chihuahua state to the local authorities. We had previously handed off the probation project. In 2024, we handed off the re-entry services project to the state public security and prevention agency. These projects benefit around 800 youth on an annual basis. We held an event closing our projects in Chihuahua. In the U.S., we hosted an international symposium on juvenile justice practices around the world in Minneapolis, MN. We also began providing technical assistance to Dallas County, TX to help them improve their detention conditions. This will impact around 250 youth per year.
$137,629 spent88% of program spendingMobilize and Empower: We collaborated with the National Museum of Mexican art to present an art workshop at three detention centers in Mexico, benefiting 17 youth. The art was exhibited in Mexico City, Minneapolis, and Chicago. Other Mobilize and Empower activities in Mexico City included delivering donated items for youth in detention, supporting workshops on baking, sexual health and other topics, and providing transportation for parents. About 85 youth benefited from these activities in Mexico City.
$19,056 spent12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $156,685.
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 2019 to 2020, from $11k to $123k (+1040%).
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: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Sarvesh Desai
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $11k → $109k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL’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
JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 83% · 2019 47% · 2020 62% · 2021 67% · 2022 68% · 2023 69% — 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
67% of JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- Department of Justice$50k
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 JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% 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 JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL: 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 JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL?
- JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $592,671 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($350,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $592,671 in grants to JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL?
- Annie E Casey Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 11 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