California · Nonprofit
JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES OF CA
JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES OF CA (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,000 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $159k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Juvenile Justice Advocates of Ca does
Mission
To advocate for youth in california as gang experts in criminal/juvenile proceedings in the juvenile justice system and by providing trauma/healing informed care as an alternative to extreme punishment and incarceration as credible messengers/mentors with lived experience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Worked onj juvenile and adult criminal cases and facilitated rehabilitative programs in juvenile facilities. Also mentoring youth in juvenile detention facilities and in the community.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $16k to $64k (+294%).
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 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES OF CA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Adam T Mortera
CEO
Board chair
J'Mel Carter
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 OF CA’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 OF CA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES OF CA.
“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
71% of JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES OF CA'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.
Against its field
JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES OF CA has grown faster than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES OF CA
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES OF CA: 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 OF CA?
- JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES OF CA (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,000 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES OF CA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $70,000 in grants to JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES OF CA.
- Who is the largest funder of JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES OF CA?
- CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES OF CA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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