Justice & Diversity Center
Legal name: The Justice and Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942931349
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4159821600
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Disaster Preparedness and Relief Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,228,606
- Expenses
- $9,207,858
- Assets
- $11,546,371
- Liabilities
- $3,044,035
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
33 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TERESA JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)
- CHARLES JUNG (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- YOLANDA JACKSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- YOLANDA JACKSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $340,765 total reported compensation
- STEVEN MACIEL (CFO (THROUGH 11/2024)): $188,222 total reported compensation
- ANTONIA MORE (DIR/MNG ATTY, PRO BONO LEGAL SRVCS): $135,959 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 Justice & Diversity Center (JDC) advances fairness and equality by providing pro bono legal services to low-income people and educational programs that foster diversity in the legal profession.
What it reported doing in 2024
Pro bono legal services program (pbls): pbls provides free legal and social services to low-income individuals and families in the areas of eviction defense, family law, domestic violence, tax law, and federal employment discrimination and civil rights matters. Also, nonprofit organizations serving low-income communities receive business law services. Jdc's volunteer recruitment, training, and retention program operates through pbls at jdc's office in downtown san francisco. Clients are the working poor, families, people with disabilities, and seniors who are served via volunteer attorneys, jdc staff attorneys, or at jdc's court-based programs. As a result of pbls' services, clients retain their housing, gain custody of their children, receive access to justice, and achieve greater stability.within this program also resides the homeless advocacy project (hap), which provides free legal and supporting social services to low-income individuals and families in the areas of eviction defense, public benefits advocacy, and immigration documentation. Clients are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness, and approximately 75% have a mental health disability and/or physical disability. Chronic homelessness is common for clients, due in large part to issues stemming from their mental health disabilities. Hap operates a drop-in representation clinic at its office in the tenderloin neighborhood. Services are provided primarily by staff attorneys, legal advocates, and social workers. As a result of hap's services, clients retain their housing, access new housing, obtain a stable source of income, access medical and psychological care, and remove barriers to employment.
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 99% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.1%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 10%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 75.1% of revenue deployed · 82.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $7.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $341K · 33 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $102K reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.