Minnesota · Nonprofit
LIVING JUSTICE PRESS
LIVING JUSTICE PRESS (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $422k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $95k
- Net assets
- $634k
What Living Justice Press does
Mission
To support and conduct multicultural research and education on the principles and practices of restorative justice; primarily through the production and dissemination of low-cost literature to a broader audience that includes schools, nonprofits and community members.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Living Justice Press supports the restorative justice (rj) movement by publishing books related to the peacemaking circle process, implementation of rj and circles in schools, and applying rj to addressing harms between peoples. A movement needs a press. Living Justice Press books are considered foundational to the circle work and the books related to circles in schools have been instrumental in helping schools deal with discipline and build a school community in a more restorative way. Living Justice Press is also a leader in the cutting-edge area within the rj movement of applying rj to addressing long-standing, historical, and ongoing harms and conflicts between peoples. Living Justice Press currently has 18 low-priced books in print and, as part of our mission, gives away approximately 300 books annually to support the growth of the rj movement.
$388,007 spent$394,332 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $388,007.
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 2017 to 2018, from $447k to $560k (+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.
2% of LIVING JUSTICE PRESS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Denise Breton
Executive director
Board chair
Kay Pranis
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LIVING JUSTICE PRESS’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
LIVING JUSTICE PRESS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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 LIVING JUSTICE PRESS.
“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
100% of LIVING JUSTICE PRESS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k 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
LIVING JUSTICE PRESS's revenue fell 15% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LIVING JUSTICE PRESS
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIVING JUSTICE PRESS: 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 LIVING JUSTICE PRESS?
- LIVING JUSTICE PRESS (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIVING JUSTICE PRESS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $95,000 in grants to LIVING JUSTICE PRESS.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVING JUSTICE PRESS?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVING JUSTICE PRESS 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 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