California · Nonprofit
YOUTH TRANSFORMING JUSTICE
YOUTH TRANSFORMING JUSTICE (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $696,912 to it, the largest being Public Health Institute ($372,359). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $697k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Youth Transforming Justice does
Mission
Working with school staff, students and administration to shift school culture and behavior from punitive to peer-led restorative and trauma-informed discipline systems. Activities include staff and student training, peer-led restorative circles and community building circles to divert suspensions and reduce recidivism. Successes include a suspension reduction of 33% over one year, impacting primarily bipoc youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Over 1,200 youth and young adults (duplicate count) participated in otw activities for a total of over 4,500 hours.activities included:- fundraising activities- workshops in self-regulation, interpersonal skills, creative writing, financial literacy, and business- healing circles- fun, sober events- peer mentoring- youth council meetings to develop a youth-led mental health and substance use campaign- community services activities
$567,872 spent$1,473 earned by the program52% of program spendingYtj provides weekly probation diversion and school suspension diversion hearings, monthly substance safety skills harm reduction training, middle and high school advocates trainings, restorative services for high school and middle school students, weekly school resiliency support groups and mentoring, and attends the three day california association of youth courts summit.
$518,342 spent$644,629 earned by the program48% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,086,214.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $940k to $1.5M (+59%).
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: 2021 18% · 2022 65% · 2023 53% · 2024 49% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of YOUTH TRANSFORMING JUSTICE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Don Carney
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $4k → $11k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 TRANSFORMING 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 TRANSFORMING JUSTICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 TRANSFORMING JUSTICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 35% · 2023 48% — 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
25% of YOUTH TRANSFORMING JUSTICE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 23% 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
94% of YOUTH TRANSFORMING JUSTICE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.
Against its field
YOUTH TRANSFORMING JUSTICE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like YOUTH TRANSFORMING 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH TRANSFORMING 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 TRANSFORMING JUSTICE?
- YOUTH TRANSFORMING JUSTICE (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $696,912 to it, the largest being Public Health Institute ($372,359). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH TRANSFORMING JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $696,912 in grants to YOUTH TRANSFORMING JUSTICE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH TRANSFORMING JUSTICE?
- Public Health Institute is the largest funder on record, with $372,359 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH TRANSFORMING JUSTICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 13 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