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YOUTH JUSTICE FUND

YOUTH JUSTICE FUND (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,391 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2021
$83k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$285k
Net assets
$7k
3/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 78%
01What it does

What Youth Justice Fund does

Mission

The mission of Youth Justice Fund is to assist returning citizens, sentenced as youth to a term of imprisonment, with the services and resources necessary to ensure human dignity and full participation in their communities.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Upgraded to a larger office space in Ypsilanti, Michigan to provide a safe space for clients and hold workshops and training on site for our clients. This included technology, college readiness, and clinical/substance abuse classes.

    $8,147 spent
    5% of program spending
  2. The Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation sponsored our Annual Summer Trauma Camp to go to Indian River, Michigan with clients to enjoy camping on the river and lake and clinical trauma workshops with licensed social workers, psychologists, and occupational therapists.

    $15,000 spent
    9% of program spending
  3. Developed a peer-support program funded by the Michigan Justice Fund that provided direct services and psychoeducational support to returning citizens who were incarcerated as youth. This program, called "Trauma Informed Mentoring & Empowerment" (TIME), aimed to advance the lives of youth impacted by the justice system utilizing a trauma-informed approach to coaching, peer- support, and wrap-around services.

    $50,000 spent
    31% of program spending
  4. YJF assisted clients in obtaining licenses, vehicles, repairing vehicles, clothing, food, trauma informed care, experiential learning through camping and outdoor related activities, and housing by assisting with rent payments.

    $89,080 spent
    55% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $162,227.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($225k) Expenses 100 ($86k) Net assets 100 ($143k)2019 Revenue 14 ($32k) Expenses 53 ($45k) Net assets 91 ($131k)2020 Revenue 84 ($188k) Expenses 277 ($237k) Net assets 58 ($83k)2021 Revenue 37 ($83k) Expenses 190 ($162k) Net assets 5 ($7k)
2018201920202021
Revenue (37)Expenses (190)Net assets (5)

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 $83k to $7k (−92%).

$143k
$131k
$83k
$7k
2018201920202021
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 100% · 2021 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$139k
’18
−$13k
’19
−$49k
’20
−$79k
’21
0.5
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

Aaron Kinzel

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2021 Form 990.

201820202021
Listed7103
Joined··+1
No longer listed··8
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $7k.

6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 YOUTH JUSTICE FUND’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

YOUTH JUSTICE FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

96% 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 YOUTH JUSTICE FUND.

35%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2020 31% · 2021 77% · 2022 57% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

11% of YOUTH JUSTICE FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

85% of YOUTH JUSTICE FUND'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 $42k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI
NY
OH

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

’18
’20
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $243k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like YOUTH JUSTICE FUND

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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
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

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH JUSTICE FUND: 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 YOUTH JUSTICE FUND?
YOUTH JUSTICE FUND (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,391 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does YOUTH JUSTICE FUND have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $285,391 in grants to YOUTH JUSTICE FUND, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YOUTH JUSTICE FUND?
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YOUTH JUSTICE FUND 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 FY2021 (financials across 2018–2021), and the filings of 10 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