Tennessee · Nonprofit
KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER
KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,678 to it, the largest being JANE L PETTWAY FOUNDATION ($77,652). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $735k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $281k
- Net assets
- $420k
What Knoxville Family Justice Center does
Mission
The mission of the family justice center is to facilitate a coordinated and comprehensive approach to family violence through collaboration, education, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Form 990, part iii, line 4a, program service accomplishments:navigation is designed to orient clients through the partnership of services for victims of interpersonal violence provided by the family justice center (fjc). Staff members, interns, and volunteers meet clients when they arrive at the fjc and tell them about the partner agencies and how each one works to assist survivors of family violence and victims of crime. Navigation staff briefly review a folder of information ensuring the individual has a safe place to keep the information. The review policies for filing a grievance and carefully review informed consent ensuring the individual knows they do not have to sign it. After reviewing the different agencies, clients are empowered to make an informed decision of what agency they want to work with and when services they want to receive. Navigation staff connects the individual with the agency of their choice. This program uses approximately 3,400 square feet of the space in the fjc.during the fiscal year, 1432 survivors of abuse visited the fjc for services from, among others, law enforcement, civil and criminal legal agencies, social services, and individual advocacy.…
$156,765 spent56% of program spendingForm 990, part iii, line 4b - second accomplishment services that empower survivors - this program focuses on providing client specific assistance for any client of the fjc. This assistance includes gas cards, bus tickets (including out of town), lock changes, language interpretation, snacks, books, and nurture items for children.
$27,994 spent10% of program spendingForm 990, part iii, line 4c - third accomplishmentcoordinated community response (ccr) - the coordinated community response (ccr) program has been identified as a best practice program of family justice centers across the nation. A ccr is a multi-disciplinary criminal justice intervention in domestic violence that works to ensure safety for victims and accountability for abusers. Each agency has a role in this collaboration, providing a consisten response from both public and private domestic violence service providers. The ccr tracks the system's response to domestic violence cases, monitors compliance with policies and procedures, identifies gaps in victim safety and abuser accountability, and facilitates change to address developing trends. The ccr team meets regularly to plan and implement appropriate assessments and interventions, in order to achieve improved victim safety and abuser accountability. The entirety of the family justice center facility is used to promote ccr activities.the Knoxville Family Justice Center's ccr team has successfully merged the talents of multiple in-house partners, off-site partners, and other community stakeholders to identify gaps in services…
$95,179 spent34% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $279,938.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $184k to $284k (+54%).
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: 2018 36% · 2019 37% · 2020 49% · 2021 45% · 2022 33% · 2023 64% · 2024 67% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% 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.
Chief executive
S Michelle Clayton
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $250 → $44k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $176k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc). These are real filings, and they are not money KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER’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
KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 36% · 2019 37% · 2020 79% · 2021 32% · 2022 38% · 2023 34% — 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
63% of KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
67% of KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
43% 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 KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: 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 KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER?
- KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,678 to it, the largest being JANE L PETTWAY FOUNDATION ($77,652). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $280,678 in grants to KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER?
- JANE L PETTWAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $77,652 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 19 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