Juvenile Justice Association of Texas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742940631
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Panhandle, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8062792153
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $241,684
- Expenses
- $242,144
- Assets
- $228,974
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brandon Borski (Past-President)
- Emily Lane (Vice President)
- Chet Thomas (TJDA President)
- Joanne Bradley (President)
People named in this filing
- Brandon Borski (Past-President)
- Emily Lane (Vice President)
- Jessica Carter (Secretariat)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Juvenile Justice Association of Texas is a professional association created to promote advocacy for Texas children by providing quality juvenile services through professional development, education and training, identifying legislative initiatives that can help to accomplish these goals, and by providing leadership to carry out these goals. The association is comprised of professionals and practitioners in the field of Juvenile Justice. The purpose and and goals for which the organization was created are: 1. Promote unity among juvenile justice practitioners; 2. Identify legislative solutions to issues that affect the lives of Texas children; 3. Provide training to enhance the professional development of professionals; 4. Encourage the use of technology to enhance the delivery of services; 5. Promote research and evaluate studies to improve quality of services; 6. Increase public awareness of juvenile justice personnel; and 7. To be an advocate of juvenile justice personnel.
What it reported doing in 2025
To accomplish its goals, the association convenes two conferences annually that are geared to provide training and education to its members. Hundreds of members attended this conference and were provided the opportunity to receive information and training from credentialed presenters in various topics of interest to the profession. The training was geared to provide information and materials that affect the participants work and enhance their preparation in each of their disciplines. An average of 14 hours of training was offered at each conference. In addition, the membership provides current information on the development of programs and services in areas of probation, detention and corrections personnel.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 21 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 10 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.