Justice And Education Fund
Legal name: The Justice and Education Fund Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824975378
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- +1 (917) 426-7230
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,595,805
- Expenses
- $10,718,468
- Assets
- $278,725
- Liabilities
- $1,106,065
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS (DIRECTOR/SECRETARY): $90,761 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 and Education Fund serves a vision of the world where all people can participate in the decisions that affect them, share equitably in the knowledge, wealth, and resources of society, and are free to achieve their full human potential.
What it reported doing in 2024
To raise awareness through education and dissemination of information about pressing problems of society and how to effect social change. The organization conducts activities designed to educate and inform the public about issues affecting societies worldwide and their impact on political and economic systems. The organization's educational activities consist of organizing seminars, webinars, the gathering of experts, and multi-day training programs in order to stimulate dialogue and examine theories that have been historically used to explain problems facing poor individuals and communities at large. The educational activities operated by the organization are made available to participants free of charge. The organization also supports education through investigative journalism and the elevation of voices not commonly featured in mainstream media.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 82% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - 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: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 85
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.8%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $71.69 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Pass
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.8%; rating input score 99; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -91.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.97; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.8%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $10.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $91K · 4 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $678K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 filed related-organization links
- 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: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.