Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC
SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,215,109 to it, the largest being THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION ($1,209,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What School Justice Project Inc does
Mission
School justice project (sjp) is a legal services and advocacy organization serving older students with special education needs who are involved in dc's justice systems. Sjp's mission is to use special education law to ensure that older, court-involved students with disabilities can access a quality education. We envision a country where all students have meaningful access to a quality education. Sjp's education attorneys work with their clients to protect and enforce special education rights.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Direct representation program: sjp provides legal representation and advocacy in special education matters to older, court-involved district of columbia students with disabilities. Through the provision of legal counsel, sjp aims to fully understand the perspective of each student. Sjp attorneys work collaboratively with clients to set and accomplish individual client goals and enforce educational and civil rights, working to ensure access to educational opportunities for each client.
$711,194 spent$25,427 earned by the program62% of program spendingSystemic advocacy & policy program: sjp works to change the policy framework in which students' education services are delivered. Through advocacy, high impact litigation, partnerships, and coalition building, sjp works to identify the sources of the problems that push students with disabilities from school to prison. Through experience and lessons learned from sjp's direct representation program, sjp works to identify and propose solutions to dismantle key barriers to education attainment. This program strives to address lack of access to resources and programs for older, court-involved students with disabilities as well as the system-wide lack of enforcement of special education law. The specific purposes of this program include: 1) highlighting interagency gaps; 2) framing the problem and disseminating solutions; 3) collaborating with stakeholders to identify and implement solutions; and 4) improving educational outcomes through broad-based policy and legal reform.
$123,087 spent$2,250 earned by the program11% of program spendingCommunity outreach & legal training program (colt): sjp works to disseminate information about the barriers to education for older, court-involved students with disabilities. Sjp also administers a training program on integrating special education law in the juvenile and criminal contexts. With a wide range of groups in d.c. And other jurisdictions requesting trainings, sjp has built vast knowledge around the core competencies needed to understand and advocate within the intersection of special education and criminal law.
$60,505 spent5% of program spendingGeneral program support
$250,836 spent22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,145,622.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $1.7M (+45%).
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 10% · 2023 10% · 2024 15% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Claire Blumenson
Executive director & co-founder
Board chair
Kate Martin
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $166k → $685k.
6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT 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
SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 43% · 2019 24% · 2020 31% · 2021 35% · 2022 48% · 2023 34% — 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
57% of SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
69% of SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $336k 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.
Against its field
SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 84 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 84 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC?
- SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,215,109 to it, the largest being THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION ($1,209,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $4,215,109 in grants to SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC?
- THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,209,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 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