California · Nonprofit
SCHOOLS FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION
SCHOOLS FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,944 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($120,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $101k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $201k
- Net assets
- $140k
What Schools for Justice Foundation does
Mission
Support of Children's Orphanage and Adult Night School in Liberia, West Africa
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Liberia Children's Rescue Orphanage. Home to 36 Children. Provide school fees/supplies, food, clothing, medicine, etc. to support the children and orphanage staff. Fund maintenance projects for orphanage building.
$50,573 spent53% of program spendingSupport approximately 240 adult learners enrolled in an accredited night school grades K-12. Provide classroom supplies, generators/gas, school rent, school capital improvement funds, and salaries for support staff.
$40,578 spent43% of program spendingBank Fees and Expenses
$2,560 spent3% of program spendingMisc Expenses - (Web Hosting/Security, Tax Filings, International Calls, and Other Business Expenses)
$1,314 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $95,025.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $163k to $135k (−17%).
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.
100% of SCHOOLS FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Emily Witkop
Founder/Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $26k → $8k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 SCHOOLS FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION’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
SCHOOLS FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 SCHOOLS FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 56% · 2019 90% · 2020 63% · 2021 82% · 2022 51% · 2023 86% — 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.
Where its funders are
82% of SCHOOLS FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $37k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $164k 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
SCHOOLS FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION's revenue fell 18% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SCHOOLS FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCHOOLS FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION: 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 SCHOOLS FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION?
- SCHOOLS FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,944 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($120,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SCHOOLS FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $200,944 in grants to SCHOOLS FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHOOLS FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $120,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHOOLS FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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