Justice Action Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472975432
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2026247769
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,428
- Expenses
- $641,130
- Assets
- $555,592
- Liabilities
- $18,874
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lauren Krisai (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Lauren Krisai (Executive Director): $260,000 total reported compensation
- Syrita Simpkins (Event Manager): $129,441 total reported compensation
- John Wilcox (Treasurer): $60,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the Corporation is to promote the common good and general welfare of citizens of the United States by advocating in favor of reforms to criminal justice policy that will maximize the effective and fair use of limited public resources in the criminal justice system.
What it reported doing in 2025
Lobbying and Policy Advocacy: Justice Action Network (JAN) advocated for reforms at both the state and federal level that will make our criminal justice system fairer, more efficient and effective while ensuring public safety. JAN collaborated with other nonprofits, criminal justice advocates, and law enforcement to engage in both grassroots and direct lobbying efforts at the federal and state level on criminal justice issues. JAN assisted with drafting legislation, testified before state legislatures, and participated in press conferences to highlight proposed reforms.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 32
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 74%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2,636.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.4% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.7% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 74% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 2 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $474K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $260K · 3 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.