Center for Judicial Excellence
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204892221
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Geronimo, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4157172221
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,262
- Expenses
- $10,660
- Assets
- $26,165
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARIVIC MABANAG (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARIVIC MABANAG (PRESIDENT)
- STEPHEN BURDO (VP & TREASUR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To improve the judiciary's public accountability and strengthen and maintain the integrity of the courts.
What it reported doing in 2025
Conducts national research on child homicides, violence and abuse involving family courts and educates the public about the need to make the family court system safer for children. Organizes young abuse survivors to reclaim their voices by speaking out.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.9%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.45; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.