Oregon · Nonprofit
YOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE
YOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE (Oregon) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,484,983 to it, the largest being OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation ($252,500). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Youth Rights & Justice does
Mission
Youth, rights & justice advances the rights of children, parents, and families through advocacy in the courts, schools, legislature, and community. Founded in 1985 as public interest law firm, yrj provides holistic legal services and policy advocacy in multnomah county and statewide. We serve as public defenders, advocate for students to ensure equitable access to education, and provide leadership to reform the juvenile justice, child welfare and education systems through programs, policy advocacy, consultation, training, and impact litigation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Defense - the organization provides legal services in juvenile court to juveniles and parents on a court-appointed basis.
$4,013,213 spent$7,903 earned by the program78% of program spendingAdvocacy - the organization advocates for public policy reforms at the local and state levels to benefit children in foster care, youth in the justice system and children with disabilities. The organization also provides limited pro bono legal services and recruits and trains other attorneys to provide pro bono legal services to children outside of the defense and education programs.
$353,225 spent7% of program spendingEducation - the organization provides a schoolworks program aimed at keeping children in school and assisting students with disabilities.
$801,092 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,167,530.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.9M to $4.0M (+37%).
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: 2020 90% · 2021 90% · 2022 89% · 2023 87% · 2024 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of YOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Heather Busby
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $41k → $402k.
5 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 RIGHTS & 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 RIGHTS & JUSTICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
53% 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 RIGHTS & JUSTICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 36% · 2019 66% · 2020 25% · 2021 18% · 2022 31% · 2023 19% — 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.
How long its funders stay
54% of YOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
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
79% of YOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $286k 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.
Against its field
YOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding YOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25.2M on record — $767k federal, $24.4M state.
- Department of Justice$767k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$24.3M
- LIABITY EXPENDITURE-ATTORNEY SETTLEMENT$50k
- INSTATE MILEAGE REIMBURSMNT-NONEMPLOYEE$22k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED REIMBURSEMENTS$22k
- OTHER SERVICES$5k
- INSTATE LODGING$2k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like YOUTH RIGHTS & 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH RIGHTS & 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 RIGHTS & JUSTICE?
- YOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE (Oregon) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,484,983 to it, the largest being OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation ($252,500). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,484,983 in grants to YOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE?
- OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $252,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 29 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing