Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER
MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,839,669 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($748,910). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $498k
What Minnesota Justice Research Center does
Mission
The Minnesota Justice Research Center (mnjrc) is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to driving meaningful change to minnesota's criminal legal system through rigorous and community-centered research, education, and policy development. We seek a criminal legal system that promotes public safety by being more equitable, accountable, and restorative in delivering justice. Through research, education, and policy development, the Minnesota Justice Research Center helps our community create a criminal legal system that advances justice and safety for all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Through research, education, and policy development, the Minnesota Justice Research Center helps our community create a criminal legal system that advances justice and safety for all.mnjrc's major accomplishments in 2024 including releasing the following reports: pretrial best practices preliminary report: the need for better and more data, from the block to the ballot 2.0: focusing locally and piloting a relational approach and breaking ground: community supervision reforms in minnesota and nationwide. Those reports were the major accomplishments both for our research and education side of our work. We developed policies from those reports and advocated for changes throughout the state
$801,162 spent$347,092 earned by the program91% of program spendingWe educate the community justice system professionals and policymakers about our criminal legal system through reporting convening and other education and communications efforts. Our annual reimagining justice conference is the main way we do this. The conference brings together criminal justice practitioners legal experts scholars advocates and people directly impacted by the system to reimagine a justice system that functions more effectively humanely and with the public's trust.
$83,399 spent$73,614 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $884,561.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $247k to $406k (+64%).
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 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 5% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Justin Terrell
Executive director
Board chair
Andrew Martens
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $1k → $703k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH 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
MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% 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
36% 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 MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 50% · 2022 51% · 2023 28% — 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
0% of MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $504k 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
MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
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 MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH 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 MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER?
- MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,839,669 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($748,910). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,839,669 in grants to MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER?
- LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $748,910 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 20 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