Healing Justice Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
844624978
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Saint Paul, MN, USA
Phone
6514473363
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital

Reported finances

Revenue
$19,881
Expenses
$268,052
Assets
$794,001
Liabilities
$14,711

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Joi Lewis (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Joi Lewis (President): $151,056 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

May All Black Lives Be Healed, Liberated and Whole. Our mission is to reclaim the inherent dignity, brilliance, and humanity of all Black people. Our work is an iterative process framework informed by the lived experiences and grounded in the teachings of Dr. Joi Lewis. We seek to: honor families and communities, provide urgent and sustainable healing support, address the direct, indirect and collateral consequences of racism and its intersection with other forms of oppression, provide education and training that empowers all through the Healing Justice Foundation. The Healing Justice Foundation is a national philanthropic non-profit with roots in Minnesota. HJF provides individuals, families, organizations, and communities with resources to provide urgent healing support to Black people. We seek to be the Red Cross for Black and Brown communities in the aftermath of traumatic events including police involved shootings, COVID-19 and racial injustice.

What it reported doing in 2025

Healing Programs: In 2025, through the support of foundations and individual donors, HJF contributed to 3 main healing programs: Co-Sponsoring: Provides financial resources to organizations that center Black Liberation, Black Joy and Healing Justice. This year, Healing Justice Foundation collaborated with 2 institutions: Joe Davis Poetry developed a new program and community: Finding Your Freedom Practice: Wellness Through the Arts. Finding Your Freedom Practice: Wellness Through the Arts is an interactive workshop and performance experience that integrates spoken word poetry, movement, mindfulness, and music to promote mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness. Rooted in Black cultural traditions and healing justice principles, the program guides participants through reflective writing, embodied storytelling, and creative expression as tools for self-awareness and community connection. Participants learn practical strategies for stress relief, emotional regulation, and collective healing through the arts. The grant helped contribute to the curriculum development and pay collaborative healing artists and wellness facilitators. The 6th Annual PUSH Fitness Triathlon in Saint Paul is a welcoming entry point for athletes of color. Founded by Connie Sheehan six years ago, the event at Lilydale Pool & Yacht Club centers physical accessibility, relay options, and community support. This year HJF has been honored to sponsor up to 30 Black-identified participants, expanding participation from our communities. PUSH's goal is to build community, camaraderie, health, wellness, and physical fitness. The Healing Justice Foundation supported individuals to each do one event as part of a relay team. The swim is first, then bike, and finally run/walk. Dr. Joi Mutual Aid HJF Liberatory Fund: 17 mutual aid grants were provided to support individual Black Healers and organizers to stand in the gap as needed. Black Joy Radical Self-Care Grant: Provided financial resources to 6 Black Twin Cities Healers Organizations. These programs provided approximately 500 Black individuals and organizations working with the community with the necessary resources to extend their support or determine their own healing journeys. This was not about prescribing what should be done, but letting the wisdom of individuals and communities determine what was needed.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 69% for direct work, and 31% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 64
  • Accountability: 78
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 56%; rating input score 56
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 56.4%; rating input score 56; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 26th 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: -1,248.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.96; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 56.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -63.2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 56% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $150K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $151K · 5 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 9/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.