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THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION

THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,773,670 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($131,625,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$41M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$154M
Net assets
$22M
1/8 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What The Just Trust for Education does

Mission

Accelerate momentum for justice reform and public safety innovation in every corner of the country. The Just Trust for Education works to create stronger, more resilient state and national advocacy and public education ecosystems that can accelerate momentum in our country's journey toward a more just and compassionate engine of public safety for all.The Just Trust for Education is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to scaling, aligning, and deploying resources to criminal justice reform nationally and in all 50 states.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Tjtfe engages in a variety of activities to support criminal justice reform. This includes grantmaking, providing strategic field support, engaging and aligning with donors, building networks and alliances, and engaging in narrative change efforts.

    $30,741,436 spentof which $29,266,206 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $30,741,436.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1k) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 2868 ($45M) Expenses 2492674 ($34M) Net assets 805 ($13M)2024 Revenue 2616 ($41M) Expenses 2359339 ($32M) Net assets 1373 ($22M)
202220232024
Revenue (2616)Expenses (2359339)Net assets (1373)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 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $34M (+2072%).

$1.6M
$34M
$67M
202220232024
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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

92% of THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.6M
’22
$11M
’23
$9.0M
’24
23
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

Ana Zamora

Chief executive officer

Board chair

Priscilla Chan

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed41517
Joined·+11+4
No longer listed·02
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $146M.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION’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

THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% 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 THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION.

86%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 90% — 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.

Where its funders are

93% of THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION'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 $12M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 4 states.

CT
CA
KS
LA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · top quartile
Months of reserve23.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)411% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION

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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 12%Fundraising 3%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION: 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 THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION?
THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,773,670 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($131,625,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $153,773,670 in grants to THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION?
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $131,625,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 8 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