Tennessee · Nonprofit
THE JUSTICE INITIATIVE
THE JUSTICE INITIATIVE (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $216,000 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE BAR FOUNDATION ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $150k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $216k
- Net assets
- $32k
What The Justice Initiative does
Mission
The purposes of the social justice initiative are to promote and accelerate community-driven solutions to problems arising out of the criminal justice system for persons who have had criminal justice system involvement or who are at risk of such involvement, and to provide education, support, rehabilitation, job training, counseling, treatment, employment assistance and housing assistance to persons who are or have been in contact with the criminal justice system or who are at risk of such contact.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Program narrative
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $31k to $32k (+5%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $110k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 JUSTICE INITIATIVE’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 JUSTICE INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
97% 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 JUSTICE INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 91% — 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
96% of THE JUSTICE INITIATIVE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like THE JUSTICE INITIATIVE
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE JUSTICE INITIATIVE: 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 JUSTICE INITIATIVE?
- THE JUSTICE INITIATIVE (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $216,000 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE BAR FOUNDATION ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE JUSTICE INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $216,000 in grants to THE JUSTICE INITIATIVE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JUSTICE INITIATIVE?
- TENNESSEE BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JUSTICE INITIATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2019–2020), and the filings of 4 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