Community Justice Alliance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832059750
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8885854917
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Minority Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,355,020
- Expenses
- $2,527,293
- Assets
- $2,584,241
- Liabilities
- $53,088
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTINA MCKIBBEN (President)
- JASON SIAS (President)
Highest reported compensation
- KRISTINA MCKIBBEN (President): $156,824 total reported compensation
- JASON SIAS (President): $143,878 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Effectsocialchangethroughadvocacy, communityhealing, andlitigationinracial justiceandimmigrantrights.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2021, our legal team assisted indigent, mixed-immigration status Central Valley residents in accessing pro bono legal representation before administrative, state, and federal courts for the purposes of securing immigration relief and pursuing remedies from government abuse. Our first-of-its-kind social services project worked with Central Valley unaccompanied minors released from immigration detention facilities who otherwise lack post-release services. Youth designated a success plan and were matched with a case manager, navigator, and mentor as well as enrolled in community building cohorts. CJA worked with the community to amplify deeper immigration narratives in a broader context, moving beyond the border crisis narrative, using multimedia platforms.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 94% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
MIXED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 5
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.9%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.7%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 53.6% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 51.4% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 55.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.9% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $157K · 7 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.