JustDane
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237298482
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Madison, WI, United States
- Phone
- (608) 256-0906
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,104,246
- Expenses
- $2,599,637
- Assets
- $2,147,031
- Liabilities
- $568,455
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RYAN ESTRELLA (CO-PRESIDENT)
- JULIE HORST (CO-PRESIDENT)
- DEVONTE WINDHAM (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LINDA KETCHAM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- LINDA KETCHAM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $100,645 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
JustDane helps transform individual lives and social systems to create a just and equitable community. Journey Home works to reduce recidivism (return to prison) by creating a stronger safer community for those returning. It focuses on the areas of residency, employment, support and treatment—as well as transportation and education. Peer Support Our Peer Support Initiative provides a solution that helps formerly incarcerated individuals find success in life while making our community safer for all.
What it reported doing in 2024
Offers education, vocational, and employment support and case management services, as well as linkage and referral to other community based programs.provides case management and supportive services for individuals involved in the criminal justice system who have been identified by the police department as being responsible for repeated violent offenses in our community. Also, provides a community response component as a partner to the madison police department's focused deterrence program to reduce violence in madison.by focusing on the individuals rather than a neighborhood, the focused deterrence model can build trust between community and the police, thereby more successfully engaging community members and leaders as part of the solution as they participate as members of the cav group. Also, to provide one to one community-based mentoring to children of incarcerated parents. The program utilizes screened and trained adult volunteers as mentors.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $70.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $101K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.