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SPECTRUM JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES

SPECTRUM JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$40M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$8.6M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Spectrum Juvenile Justice Services does

Mission

The mission of the Spectrum Juvenile Justice Services (sjjs) residential treatment programs is to rehabilitate chronically delinquent youthful offenders. Our six specialized treatment programs provide long-term therapeutic services to meet the needs of chronic offenders, substance abusers, sex offenders, violent offenders and delinquent youth with specialized learning needs (cognitive deficits) and delinquent youth with severe emotional disturbances.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operation of lincoln center and calumet center, secure residential treatment and detention facilities located in highland park (wayne county) mi. The program consists of 160 secure treatment and detention beds for adolescent youths.

    $26,349,604 spentof which $653,737 as grants$38,086,401 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $26,349,604.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($18M) Expenses 100 ($18M) Net assets 100 ($789k)2018 Revenue 105 ($19M) Expenses 100 ($18M) Net assets 370 ($2.9M)2019 Revenue 101 ($19M) Expenses 100 ($18M) Net assets 332 ($2.6M)2020 Revenue 103 ($19M) Expenses 98 ($17M) Net assets 506 ($4.0M)2021 Revenue 68 ($12M) Expenses 94 ($17M) Net assets -34 ($-264531)2022 Revenue 67 ($12M) Expenses 85 ($15M) Net assets -408 ($-3214723)2023 Revenue 108 ($20M) Expenses 112 ($20M) Net assets -442 ($-3484265)2024 Revenue 138 ($25M) Expenses 128 ($23M) Net assets -138 ($-1089533)2025 Revenue 220 ($40M) Expenses 171 ($30M) Net assets 1096 ($8.6M)
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Revenue (220)Expenses (171)Net assets (1096)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $15M to $12M (−24%).

$16M
$17M
$15M
$15M
$12M
$12M
$11M
$11M
$15M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 10% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of SPECTRUM JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 268 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$450k
’17
$1.4M
’18
$683k
’19
$1.3M
’20
−$4.3M
’21
−$2.9M
’22
−$270k
’23
$2.4M
’24
$9.7M
’25
1.4
months of
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

Joshua J Swaninger

President & CEO

Board chair

Paul Mackinnon

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed787977777
Joined·+1+1+2+1+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·02030000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
total
funders
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SPECTRUM JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES’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.

Where its funders are

100% of SPECTRUM JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SPECTRUM JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 152 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like SPECTRUM JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Part of a family of 7 related entities

  • Spectrum Human Services Inc · exempt
  • Spectrum Community Services · exempt
  • Operation Able of Michigan · exempt
  • Spectrum Child and Family Services · exempt
  • Shs - Voluntary Emp Benefit Trust · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPECTRUM JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES: 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 SPECTRUM JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES?
SPECTRUM JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SPECTRUM JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to SPECTRUM JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES.
Who is the largest funder of SPECTRUM JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPECTRUM JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 1 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