Maine · Nonprofit
YOUTH-LED JUSTICE
YOUTH-LED JUSTICE (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,000 to it, the largest being MAINE INITIATIVESINC ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $340k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $99k
- Net assets
- $345k
What Youth-Led Justice does
Mission
To work towards creating healthy, safer, stronger, and more connected communities through educating youth in restorative justice and by giving youth respondents a second chance to be part of the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Youth-LED Justice is a youth-led restorative justice program that provides diversion and supportive services to young people who are involved in the legal system, school disciplinary processes, or other community-based accountability systems. Our purpose is to divert youth away from punitive consequences and guide them through a restorative justice process focused on accountability, repairing harm, skill building, and positive community connection. The organization serves youth primarily in Androscoggin County, Maine. Participants-referred to as respondents-include young people facing civil or criminal charges, school disciplinary actions, or other community infractions. Services are delivered in community settings, schools, and homes. Youth-LED Justice trains young people to serve as advocates and facilitators within restorative processes. The organization provides mentorship, structured restorative circles, accountability agreements, and referrals to appropriate community services as needed. These activities empower respondents to repair harm, gain access to skills and resources, and build on their personal strengths. Youth leadership is central to the programs model as the…
$309,781 spent$295,072 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $309,781.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $487k to $350k (−28%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 82% · 2024 88% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of YOUTH-LED JUSTICE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $15k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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-LED JUSTICE’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-LED JUSTICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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-LED JUSTICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
81% of YOUTH-LED JUSTICE'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 $19k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k 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.
Against its field
YOUTH-LED JUSTICE's revenue fell 16% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like YOUTH-LED JUSTICE
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 YOUTH-LED JUSTICE: 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-LED JUSTICE?
- YOUTH-LED JUSTICE (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,000 to it, the largest being MAINE INITIATIVESINC ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YOUTH-LED JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $99,000 in grants to YOUTH-LED JUSTICE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH-LED JUSTICE?
- MAINE INITIATIVESINC is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH-LED JUSTICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 5 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