National Youth Justice Network

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
813221807
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2024555392
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$318,202
Expenses
$595,980
Assets
$171,543
Liabilities
$9,866

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TRACEY TUCKER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • DR NIAZ KASRAVI (PRESIDENT)
  • VALERIE SLATER (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • TRACEY TUCKER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $89,988 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 national youth justice network builds the movement for anti-racist, healing-centered youth justice. We unite a diverse network of advocates and organizers to shift youth justice away from policing and prisons toward community-based, trauma-informed and healing-centered responses to youth needs. Our work centers the needs of the most marginalized, and we seek a reimagined future where black, brown, indigenous, lgbtqia+ youth, and youth with disabilities have the freedom, resources and opportunities necessary to thrive.

What it reported doing in 2024

Core programming - nyjn is an organization committed to creating anti-racist, healing-centered justice for youth in our communities. We work to unite advocates, activists, organizers, artists, healers, and dreamers behind the long-term cause of deconstructing harmful youth-legal systems and building community models of care centered on healing, equity, and youth and family empowerment.to achieve our mission, we employ specific strategies to: assist state and local advocates with legislative advocacy support, research, and education; organize narrative power to educate the public on a new way of healing-centered justice and debunk harmful narratives about youth, particularly youth of color; develop the skills and leadership of movement leaders across the country; and, unite a network of movement leaders and organizations working across the country towards the same end. Advocacy support, research and education: nyjn provides juvenile justice technical assistance by offering policy research, education, communications, and legislative strategy to its members. While nyjn aims to be responsive to the grassroots needs identified by state-based members, we are also leading the national campaign to raise the minimum age of youth prosecution and confinement. Narrative organizing and power building: through nyjn's narrative organizing, we build narrative power amongst youth justice movement leaders and organizations in order to transform public perceptions and attitudes about youth by creating a new narrative that uplifts the dignity of young people, particularly young people of color, and highlights the inherent harms and impacts of the current system on youth, families, and communities.leadership: nyjn develops the skills and leadership of movement leaders across the country, with a specific emphasis on supporting movement leaders of color and youth advocates. The hallmark of this work is our youth justice leadership institute (yjli), established in 2011 to provide a leadership path for advocates of color, particularly those impacted by legal systems. Nyjn provides deep leadership development and reflective opportunities for yjli fellows through sharing best practices, challenges, methods, and increasing collective power.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 70% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 12
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 90.1%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -87.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.1%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $537K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.