Justice Forward Virginia Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
992983830
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Earlysville, VA, USA
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Crime, Legal Related N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$55,294
Expenses
$62,546
Assets
$37,665
Liabilities
$1,217

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Rob Poggenklass (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Rob Poggenklass (Executive Director)
  • Tracy Lenox (Chair)
  • Teresa Hepler (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

Justice Forward Virginia Foundation is a non-partisan 501c3 advocacy organization founded by public defenders created to bring attention to the urgent need for criminal justice reform in the Commonwealth at the most fundamental level to advance evidence-informed policy solutions and advocate for comprehensive changes to Virginias criminal legal system.

What it reported doing in 2025

Record sealing legislation was passed in the Commonwealth in 2021 but impacted communities are not necessarily aware of the law nor of their eligibility. JFVF is informing these communities of the law change and working with courts pro bono attorneys and court staff to ensure those who are eligible for expungement or sealing do not slip through the cracks.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

STRONG - 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: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 86.2%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 76.2%; rating input score 76

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -13.1%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 60.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -22.4% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -67.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -44.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 86.2% of revenue deployed · 76.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

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 26/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.