New York · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CENTER FOR ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC
NATIONAL CENTER FOR ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,316,092 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($725,129). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $515k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $389k
What National Center for Access to Justice Inc does
Mission
The national center for access to justice is the academically affiliated national organization that relies on data to support policy reforms that help people obtain access to justice in the civil and criminal justice systems. The center partners with the bar, judiciary, law schools, the legal services community, and other stakeholders. The center's tools include litigation, books and reports, public education and public advocacy, conferences, and legislative drafting.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Signature projects the justice index project - the justice index, (https://ncaj.org/state- rankings/justice-index), created by ncaj in 2021 and updated periodically, is a web-based system in which ncaj presents data showing the extent to which the 50 states, the district of columbia, and puerto rico, have adopted, as laws and practices, certain selected best policies for assuring access to justice for all. This project relies on the concept that public institutions function best when people can understand how they operate, when performance can be readily evaluated, and when officials can be held accountable to norms and standards. By setting benchmarks, identifying the presence (and absence) in each state of selected laws and practices that meet the benchmark, and then publishing the findings, the justice index empowers judges, court administrators, other government officials, journalists, academics, activists, and other members of the public in their respective efforts to improve our justice system. The justice index currently presents findings on best policies in six categories, specifically consumer debt litigation, government-imposed fines and fees, attorney access,…
$372,860 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $372,860.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $282k to $831k (+194%).
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 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
James B Kobak
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $427k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC’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
NATIONAL CENTER FOR ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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 83% · 2018 100% · 2019 46% · 2020 82% · 2021 77% · 2022 47% · 2023 50% — 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
25% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
NATIONAL CENTER FOR ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $211k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like NATIONAL CENTER FOR ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC: 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC?
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,316,092 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($725,129). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CENTER FOR ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,316,092 in grants to NATIONAL CENTER FOR ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CENTER FOR ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC?
- LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $725,129 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CENTER FOR ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 13 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