California · Nonprofit
NATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER
NATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $629,510 to it, the largest being Asian Pacific Environmental Network ($263,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $46k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $630k
- Net assets
- $-243455
What National Indian Justice Center does
Mission
The National Indian Justice Center was founded in order to establish an independent national resource for native communities and tribal governments.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Other accomplishments: the california indian museum is a project made possible by nijc to acquire, record, preserve, study, interpret, and exhibit information of the outstanding importance on the historic cultural heritage, and contemporary life of the indigenous people of california. The museum's goal is to light the way - the spiritual, social, economic, and personal way - for native people of the western hemisphere and the pacific islands to come together and share.
$324,891 spentof which $391,016 as grants100% of program spendingNijc provides a national legal training program for individual tribes and tribal employees through seminars, publications and site evaluations, with the goal to improve the tribal justice system and administration of justice in indian country. Nijc surveys, conducts research and develops curricula for many issues critical to tribes and tribal members. This program includes development of curricula and data concerning the cycle of violence, causes and prevention of violence, as well as alcohol and drug prevention awareness. Nijc conducts research, on-site training, develops curricula and publications aimed to improve issues such as environmental hazards, driver safety, road safety, transportation planning, transportation maintenance and construction programs on and near indian lands.
$249 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $325,140.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $17k (−99%).
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: 2017 86% · 2018 82% · 2019 92% · 2020 100% · 2021 72% · 2022 53% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $80k → $91.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 INDIAN 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
NATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 NATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 81% · 2020 97% · 2021 81% · 2022 91% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
20% of NATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 10% 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
98% of NATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $544 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.
Government funding NATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $994k on record.
- Department of Transportation$844k
- Department of the Interior$150k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NATIONAL INDIAN 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 INDIAN 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 NATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER?
- NATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $629,510 to it, the largest being Asian Pacific Environmental Network ($263,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $629,510 in grants to NATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER?
- Asian Pacific Environmental Network is the largest funder on record, with $263,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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