Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK
NATIONAL YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,857,855 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($1,250,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $318k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $162k
What National Youth Justice Network does
Mission
The National Youth Justice Network builds the movement for anti-racist, healing-centered youth justice. We unite a diverse network of advocates and organizers to shift youth justice away from policing and prisons toward community-based, trauma-informed and healing-centered responses to youth needs. Our work centers the needs of the most marginalized, and we seek a reimagined future where black, brown, indigenous, lgbtqia+ youth, and youth with disabilities have the freedom, resources and opportunities necessary to thrive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Core programming - nyjn is an organization committed to creating anti-racist, healing-centered justice for youth in our communities. We work to unite advocates, activists, organizers, artists, healers, and dreamers behind the long-term cause of deconstructing harmful youth-legal systems and building community models of care centered on healing, equity, and youth and family empowerment.to achieve our mission, we employ specific strategies to: assist state and local advocates with legislative advocacy support, research, and education; organize narrative power to educate the public on a new way of healing-centered justice and debunk harmful narratives about youth, particularly youth of color; develop the skills and leadership of movement leaders across the country; and, unite a network of movement leaders and organizations working across the country towards the same end. Advocacy support, research and education: nyjn provides juvenile justice technical assistance by offering policy research, education, communications, and legislative strategy to its members. While nyjn aims to be responsive to the grassroots needs identified by state-based members, we are also leading the national…
$536,769 spent$92,095 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $536,769.
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 2021 to 2022, from $903k to $590k (−35%).
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: 2021 8% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of NATIONAL YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Tracey Tucker
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $475k → $275k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK’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 YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 62% · 2019 43% · 2020 59% · 2021 48% · 2022 39% · 2023 36% — 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
80% of NATIONAL YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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 YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k 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
NATIONAL YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK's revenue fell 58% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NATIONAL YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
23%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK?
- NATIONAL YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,857,855 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($1,250,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $3,857,855 in grants to NATIONAL YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK?
- Annie E Casey Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 12 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