Citizens for Community Justice Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
341798973
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2011
Location
Bloomington, IN, USA
Phone
8123368677
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Half-Way House for Offenders, Ex-Offenders

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$103,218
Expenses
$136,971
Assets
$247,620
Liabilities
$238,309

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Elizabeth Grenat (Executive Director)
  • Julie Koduri (President)
  • John Alme (Board Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Elizabeth Grenat (Executive Director): $50,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Envisioning a fair community that learns from conflict, prevents harm, and grows in understanding, the Community Justice & Mediation Center's (CJAM) mission is to promote a civil and just community through mediation, education, and restorative justice. CJAM accomplishes its mission by leveraging the time and talents of community members who serve as volunteer mediators and facilitators, office support staff, interns, and board committee members.

What it reported doing in 2024

Conflict Resolution, Facilitation, Mediation and Restorative Justice Training: CJAM provides two professional trainings per year for basic mediation and restorative justice. This training prepares community members, college students, and local professionals to utilize conflict resolution skills and mediation in their communities. This training also readies its graduates to become community mediators for CJAM programs. The training is taught by CJAM staff. CJAM also provides training and consultation to organizations, businesses, and groups. These trainings range across the different skills and processes that are within conflict resolution, mediation, and restorative justice. In addition to training, CJAM offers facilitation processes and consultation. We served 175 clients through training and facilitation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: $31.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -32.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.96; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 36.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -17% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $122K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.