Justice League

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
742976544
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014
Location
Powell, OH, USA
Phone
6148488500
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,133,092
Expenses
$1,072,908
Assets
$140,962
Liabilities
$56,541

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Catherine Harper Lee (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Catherine Harper Lee (Executive Director): $99,715 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of Ohio Crime Victim Justice Center (OCVJC) is to ensure that the constitutional and statutory rights of Ohio crime victims are protected and enforced in state and federal jurisdictions in all 88 Ohio counties. To fulfill this mission, OCVJC provides free legal representation and advocacy to Ohio crime victims; victims' rights training to justice system officials, allied professionals and the public; technical assistance to advocates and other allied professionals; and promotes public awareness of victims' rights.

What it reported doing in 2024

VOCA Grant Program-Ohio Crime Victim Justice Center (OCVJC), provided free legal representation and advocacy to crime victims during the 2024 calendar year. Representation and advocacy included securing justice and due process for victims throughout the criminal and juvenile justice systems in a manner no less vigorous than the rights afforded to the accused. Protecting crime victims' rights is accomplished by: ensuring that victims are treated with fairness and respect and by ensuring the victim's safety, dignity and privacy; ensuring victims' rights to reasonable and timely notice of all public proceedings involving the criminal offense or delinquent act against them; protecting crime victim privacy, ensuring victims' rights to be present at all such proceedings; ensuring victims' rights to confer with the attorney for the government; ensuring victims' rights to proceedings free from unreasonable delay; ensuring victims' rights to be heard in any public proceeding involving release, plea, sentencing, disposition, or parole, or in any public proceeding in which a right of the victim is implicated; ensuring that victims have reasonable protection from the accused or any person acting on behalf of the accused; ensuring that victims receive reasonable notice of any release or escape of the accused, except as authorized by section 10 of Article I of this constitution; ensuring victims' rights to refuse an interview, deposition, or other discovery request made by the accused or any person acting on behalf of the accused; ensuring full and timely restitution from the person who committed the criminal offense or delinquent act against them. The successful litigation to protect and enforce victims' rights not only provides much needed assistance to the victims OCVJC serves, but establishes compelling and substantive case law that has a profound effect on the enforcement of crime victims' rights laws. OCVJC provided victims rights training to hospital personnel, advocates, law enforcement, prosecutors, courts, domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers, community groups, and schools. OCVJC incentivized attorney, judge, and social worker participation by offering these programs free of charge and providing continuing legal education credit and continuing education units.

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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 89
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.6%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $555.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th 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: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 22nd 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: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.3%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.6% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $968K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.