Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$5,032,756

Total expenses

$4,587,721

Contributions and grants received

$4,924,774

Grants paid

$886,500

Program service revenue

$22,377

Investment income

$134,537

Other revenue

-$48,932

Total assets, end of year

$11,114,483

Total liabilities, end of year

$472,266

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$10,642,217

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$3,366,425

Management and general expenses

$927,986

Fundraising expenses

$293,310

Program service expenses (Part III)

$3,366,425

Program services were 73.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• SUSTAINABILITY PROJECTS: JLUSA CONTINUED ITS FEDERALLY FUNDED COLLABORATION WITH TWO OTHER NONPROFITS TO NEW FEDERAL SUBAWARD AS A TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNER IN COLLABORATION TO IMPROVE CORRECTIONS CONDITIONS BY TRANSFORMING CULTURE, CLIMATE, AND SPACES AND CAPACITY BUILDING TO OTHER NONPROFITS THAT DELIVER TRAINING TO INDIVIDUALS AFFECTED BY THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM AND (B) SUBAWARD MANAGEMENT OF MACARTHUR FUNDS FOR CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEMS TRAINING ORGANIZATIONS.

  Expenses $1,221,791 · Grants $750,000

• LEADERSHIP: THIRTY-TWO INDIVIDUALS COMPLETED LEADING WITH CONVICTION (LWC), JLIUSA'S YEAR LONG, COHORT-BASED ADVANCED SENIOR LEADERSHIP TRAINING, COACHING, AND MENTORING PROGRAM FOR DIRECTLY IMPACTED INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE ALREADY ENGAGED IN TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE. ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN INDIVIDUALS COMPLETED EMERGING LEADERS (EL), AN INTENSIVE COMMUNITY-FOCUSED TRAINING SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR EMERGING LEADERS IN COMMUNITIES MOST IMPACTED BY MARGINALIZATION AND INCARCERATION. A SPECIALIZED EL ENGAGED A COHORT OF SIX CHICAGO-AREA LEADERS IN AN EXTRA-INTENSIVE YEARLONG ENGAGEMENT WITH INDIVIDUALIZED COACHING AND A TRAUMA INFORMED RETREAT. DESIGN OF THE C-SUITE ORIENTED LEADING WITH CONVICTION PLUS (LWC+) PROGRAM WAS FURTHERED THROUGH A DESIGN-PILOT THINK-TANK-STYLE RETREAT HELD WITH 10 SENIOR LEADERS WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE AND CURRICULUM FINALIZED.

  Expenses $1,115,939 · Grants $108,000 · Revenue $22,377

• LEADERSHIP IN ACTION (LAP): JLUSA INVESTS AND ACTIVATES ITS ALUMNI NETWORK OF MORE THAN 1,700 LEADERS ACROSS 45 STATES, PLUS D.C., TO DRIVE POLICY REFORM AND COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT STRATEGIES NATIONWIDE. THEJUSTUS COORDINATING COUNCIL (JCC) CONTINUED ITS WORK AS A NATIONAL POLICY TABLE LED BY SYSTEMS-IMPACTED LEADERS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS COMMITTED TO ARTICULATING A NEW NATIONAL VISION AND IMPLEMENTING ACTIONABLE STEPS THAT PROMOTE OPPORTUNITY AND JUSTICE FOR INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM. DURING APRIL 2025 REENTRY MONTH, THE JCC HOSTED A CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATIVE BRIEFING WITH COMMUNITY ADVOCATES AND POLICY MAKERS TO DISCUSS CLEAN SLATE POLICIES AND OTHER SECOND REFORMS SUPPORTING SECOND CHANCES, ADVANCED STATE PROCLAMATIONS RECOGNIZING SECOND CHANCE MONTH, AND HELPED ORGANIZE EXPUNGEMENT CLINICS. JLUSA COLLABORATED WITH A LEADING JUSTICE-FOCUSED RESEARCH NONPROFIT TO STUDY THE IMPACT OF MUNICIPAL COURTS POLICIES ON DIRECTLY IMPACTED PERSONS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING THE CONVENING OF TWO FOCUS GROUPS IN ARIZONA AND OHIO. JLUSA BEGAN A MULTI-YEAR RESEARCH PROJECT ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF INCARCERATION ON CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS.

  Expenses $1,028,695 · Grants $28,500

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY

  $150,000

  RESTRICTED TO SUPPORT FELLOWSHIP FOR FIRST-TIME EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS AS PART OF THE MACARTHUR FOUNDATION'S SAFETY & JUSTICE CHALLENGE

• LIFE AFTER JUSTICE

  $150,000

  GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT AS PART OF THE MACARTHUR FOUNDATION'S SAFETY & JUSTICE CHALLENGE

• POSSIBILITY LABS

  $150,000

  RESTRICTED TO SUPPORT MISSION AND GOALS OF CATALYST JUSTICE, A NONPROFIT FOR WHICH POSSIBILITY LABS ACTS AS FISCAL SPONSOR, AS PART OF THE MACARTHUR FOUNDATION'S SAFETY & JUSTICE CHALLENGE.

• BUSINESS CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE

  $100,000

  RESTRICTED TO SUPPORT MISSION AND GOALS OF CANARY IMPACT, A NONPROFIT FOR WHICH BCDA ACTS AS FISCAL SPONSOR, AS PART OF THE MACARHTUR FOUNDATIONS SAFETY & JUSTICE CHALLENGE.

• SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS

  $100,000

  RESTRICTED TO SUPPORT MISSION AND GOALS OF ALIANZA FOR OPPORTUNITY, A NONPROFIT FOR WHICH SEE ACTS AS FISCAL SPONSOR, AS PART OF THE MACARTHUR FOUNDATION'S SAFETY AND JUSTICE CHALLENGE.

• MISSION EDGE - SAN DIEGO

  $50,000

  RESTRICTED TO SUPPORT CAPACITY BUILDING SERVICES BY RESILIA, AN ORGANIZATION FOR WHICH MISSION EDGE ASSUMED FISCAL SPONSORSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES MID-GRANT.

• PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  RESTRICTED TO SUPPORT CAPACITY BUILDING SERVICES BY RESILIA, AN ORGANIZATION FOR WHICH PVF HELD FISCAL SPONSORSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES FOR FIRST HALF OF GRANT YEAR.

• DAUGHTERS OF DESTINY

  $18,000

  LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT GRANT TO CHICAGOLAND ORGANIZATION ENROLLED IN COHORT TRAINING SO THEY CAN BUILD AND LEAD MOVEMENTS FOR JUSTICE

• MESSAGE 2 THE STREETS

  $18,000

  LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT GRANT TO CHICAGOLAND ORGANIZATION ENROLLED IN COHORT TRAINING SO THEY CAN BUILD AND LEAD MOVEMENTS FOR JUSTICE

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

11 May 2026

IRS schema version

2024v5.5

Source object

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