The Justice Workshop
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921439668
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $177,725
- Expenses
- $196,278
- Assets
- $20,807
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Andrea St Julian (President)
People named in this filing
- Andrea St Julian (President)
- Maresa Talbert (Secretary & Treasurer)
- Anthony Avalos (Community Engagement Coordinator)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
(1) Community Outreach to educate on the interconnectivity of systems, and impact structural and systemic change in the areas of criminal, electoral, and economic justice in the United States; and (2) Policy Reform and Direct Lobbying through grassroots movements that engage in direct lobbying at the local, state, and federal levels by collaborating with community groups, disseminating resources, advocating for change, and coordinating activities that shape the public vote.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Justice Workshop the organization advanced its mission by launching an educational campaign focused on proportional representation and ranked-choice voting. The organization engaged with subject matter experts, community stakeholders, and political analysts to explore the feasibility and impact of electoral reform within our local context. Activities included public forums, educational materials, policy research, and strategic planning sessions intended to raise awareness and build broad-based support for electoral systems that better reflect the diversity and preferences of the electorate.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 19
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 19.7%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 17.8%; rating input score 18
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 129.6% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 80.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 19.7% of revenue deployed · 17.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $35K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 20/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.