Coalition for Juvenile Justice

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
222520938
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2028279751
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,063,661
Expenses
$1,097,647
Assets
$319,241
Liabilities
$117,653

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

Leadership & pay

22 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Melissa Milchman (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Melissa Milchman (Executive Director): $117,738 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

CJJ envisions a nation where all children, youth, and families have opportunities to live safe, fulfilling lives in their community. Our mission is to convene national and partners to educate on and advocate for youth-serving systems to be fair, effective, and rooted in community

What it reported doing in 2024

Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ) is a nationwide network of State Advisory Groups (SAGs) and dedicated allies committed to preventing youth involvement in the justice system, while ensuring the highest standards of care and fairness for those who are charged with wrongdoing. CJJs membership consists of State Advisory Group members, Organizational Members, Individual Members, and Youth Members. As our members national presence, we educate and inform Members of Congress and the Administration on state-identified needs and concerns in the arena of juvenile justice. Through support and technical assistance, CJJ enhances our members work to improve the treatment of young people and their families involved with the juvenile justice system, enhance community safety and develop and implement innovative strategies that prevent delinquency. CJJ offers conferences, training, and expert support to develop leaders and implement innovative practices within juvenile justice The organization continued public education and support efforts for the reauthorization of the JJDPA (due for reauthorization this year) emphasizing the importance of recommitment and continued investment for delinquency prevention, youth justice, youth safety, and youth legal system. This work is primarily conducted through the Act4JJ Coalition. In addition to other activities the organization hosted a Youth Summit in Tacoma Washington to elevate the voices of youth and families with lived experience to be responsive to those most impacted by the youth legal system The organization made additional impact by partnering with the Georgetown Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) and the Center for Childrens Law and Policy (CCLP) to launch a Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities Technical Assistance Center, aimed at providing support for SAGs and field professionals to achieve compliance with the JJDPA requirement to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in their respective jurisdictions youth legal system and to generate innovation and increase peer learning opportunities around strategies to reduce disparities (OJJDP funded)

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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.7%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $384.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: -3.2%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -11.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82.7% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $879K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $118K · 22 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.