JRI
Legal name: Justice Resource Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042526357
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Needham, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7815594900
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Rehabilitation Services for Offenders
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $279,083,645
- Expenses
- $263,147,271
- Assets
- $240,748,041
- Liabilities
- $88,791,504
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREW POND (CEO/PRESIDENT (UNTIL 9/24))
- MIA DEMARCO (CEO/PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER MIGUEL (EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT)
- DEIRDRE J HUNTER (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT)
- DANI K SILCOX (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MATTHEW GEORGE (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ANDREW POND (CEO/PRESIDENT (UNTIL 9/24)): $807,346 total reported compensation
- MIA DEMARCO (CEO/PRESIDENT): $695,521 total reported compensation
- BISSER DOKOV (CFO/ ASST. TREASURER): $663,113 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 work of social justice is never done. For over 50 years, JRI has been dedicated to nurturing and empowering underserved children, individuals, families, and communities across Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. For over 50 years, JRI has been dedicated to nurturing and empowering underserved children, individuals, families, and communities across Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. We recognize the profound need for compassionate human services programs and the importance of continually innovating how we deliver this vital care. We strive to create a world where every person, regardless of their circumstances, has access to the support and resources they need to thrive.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community based services - justice resource institute has been providing in-home and community-based services to children and families with serious emotional disturbance, medical complications, developmental disabilities, and behavioral issues for over 20 years. Our services include intensive care coordination, in-home and outpatient therapies, mentoring services, in-home behavioral support, foster care services, parent/ caregiver support and education, and mentoring for commercially sexually exploited youth. Our community based programs are established in a wraparound framework that incorporates all necessary wraparound values and principles including; family voice and choice, providing community-focused support, using a strength-based and team based approach and collaboration.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 78% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.7%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 86% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $238.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $807K · 24 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.9M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.