Totals
- Total revenue
- $54,112,564
- Total expenses
- $53,691,668
- Contributions and grants received
- $53,053,932
- Grants paid
- $5,202,122
- Program service revenue
- $265,733
- Investment income
- $792,899
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $37,657,849
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $23,045,720
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $14,612,129
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $47,254,984
- Management and general expenses
- $6,128,217
- Fundraising expenses
- $308,467
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $47,254,984
Program services were 88.0% 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.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
-
1e · Government grants (contributions)
$38,934,931
-
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$14,119,001
-
2a · Program service revenue: Court Awarded Attorney
total $87,731 · related or exempt $87,731
-
2b · Program service revenue: Miscellaneous
total $178,002 · related or exempt $178,002
-
3 · Investment income
total $792,899 · excluded $792,899
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $0
-
6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
-
8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
-
9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
-
1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $5,202,122 · program services $5,202,122
-
2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
-
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
-
4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $893,418 · management and general $893,418
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $30,673,647 · program services $27,269,628 · management and general $3,213,719 · fundraising $190,300
-
8 · Pension plan contributions
total $1,073,339 · program services $933,926 · management and general $135,413 · fundraising $4,000
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $5,149,050 · program services $4,482,124 · management and general $628,286 · fundraising $38,640
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $2,935,830 · program services $2,551,772 · management and general $365,800 · fundraising $18,258
-
11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $99,212 · program services $99,212
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $86,427 · program services $9,619 · management and general $76,679 · fundraising $129
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $1,263,148 · program services $1,032,811 · management and general $221,924 · fundraising $8,413
-
12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
-
13 · Office expenses
total $404,675 · program services $360,577 · management and general $28,204 · fundraising $15,894
-
14 · Information technology
total $472,963 · program services $432,761 · management and general $38,409 · fundraising $1,793
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $3,023,135 · program services $2,706,014 · management and general $298,938 · fundraising $18,183
-
17 · Travel
total $548,127 · program services $443,460 · management and general $99,370 · fundraising $5,297
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
-
20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $120,104 · program services $120,104
-
23 · Insurance
total $108,135 · program services $85,853 · management and general $22,064 · fundraising $218
-
24a · Other expenses: Small Equipment & Furnishing
total $840,068 · program services $749,373 · management and general $85,899 · fundraising $4,796
-
24b · Other expenses: Litigation
total $350,982 · program services $347,224 · management and general $3,569 · fundraising $189
-
24c · Other expenses: Library
total $222,129 · program services $213,853 · management and general $5,919 · fundraising $2,357
-
24d · Other expenses: Fees, Dues & Licenses
total $131,201 · program services $120,595 · management and general $10,606
-
24e · All other expenses
total $93,956 · program services $93,956
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
-
1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $3,610,891 · end of year $2,986,735
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $14,699,402 · end of year $17,330,699
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $6,266,249 · end of year $5,481,247
-
4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $0
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $16,564 · end of year $2,885
-
10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$4,035,417
-
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$2,287,625
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $1,708,731 · end of year $1,747,792
-
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
-
12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
-
14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
beginning of year $10,151,868 · end of year $10,108,491
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $5,635,071 · end of year $5,479,919
-
19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $5,140,308 · end of year $5,793,796
-
21 · Escrow or custodial account liability
beginning of year $273,779 · end of year $112,773
-
23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable
beginning of year $1,041,139 · end of year $1,012,909
-
25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $10,172,175 · end of year $10,646,323
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $11,338,761 · end of year $11,720,714
-
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $2,852,472 · end of year $2,891,415
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Northwest Justice Project (NJP) provides free legal assistance to address fundamental human needs such as housing, family safety, income security, health care, education, and more. Our work challenges structural and racial inequities to promote the long-term well-being of low-income individuals, families and communities across Washington State. The NJP mission is: Combating Injustice, strengthening communities and protecting human dignity.
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In 2024, 30,050 people (clients and their families) benefited from direct legal advocacy and 1.3 million accessed legal resources through Washington Law Help. Legal advocacy provided greater financial security: preventing foreclosures, we protected $50.12M in home equity; we eliminated $2.4M in unfair debt and secured $1.54M in veteran's benefits. Two-thirds of or our clients were women. NJP served 3,935 persons who reported having a disability and 565 clients received services in a language other than English.
Expenses $47,254,984 · Grants $5,202,122 · Revenue $265,733
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
-
Cesar Torres
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $289,247
- From this org
- $289,247
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $289,247
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported
- Filer's total
- $289,247
-
Abigail Daquiz
Interim E.D.
- Total calculated
- $191,077
- From this org
- $167,458
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $23,619
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $167,458
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $3,750
- Nontaxable benefits
- $19,869
- Filer's total
- $191,077
-
Hickory Gateless
Interim E.D.
- Total calculated
- $185,932
- From this org
- $171,643
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $14,289
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $171,643
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $4,000
- Nontaxable benefits
- $10,289
- Filer's total
- $185,932
-
Michelle Besso
Managing Attorney
- Total calculated
- $180,688
- From this org
- $157,738
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $22,950
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $157,738
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $4,500
- Nontaxable benefits
- $18,450
- Filer's total
- $180,688
-
Steve Robins
Managing Attorney
- Total calculated
- $170,732
- From this org
- $144,157
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $26,575
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $144,157
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $4,500
- Nontaxable benefits
- $22,075
- Filer's total
- $170,732
-
John Purbaugh
Managing Attorney
- Total calculated
- $168,285
- From this org
- $163,785
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $4,500
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $163,785
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $4,500
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported
- Filer's total
- $168,285
-
Eva Wescott
Managing Attorney
- Total calculated
- $167,959
- From this org
- $143,908
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $24,051
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $143,908
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $4,250
- Nontaxable benefits
- $19,801
- Filer's total
- $167,959
-
Luanne Serafin
Managing Attorney
- Total calculated
- $152,159
- From this org
- $147,909
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $4,250
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $147,909
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $4,250
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported
- Filer's total
- $152,159
-
Kris Breton
Dir. of Finance
- Total calculated
- $134,941
- From this org
- $134,941
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 35
-
Steven Pelletier
Dir. of Finance
- Total calculated
- $92,220
- From this org
- $90,446
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $1,774
- Hours/week
- 35
-
Toni Hood
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Catherine West
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Richard J Harrison
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Daniel Hsieh
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Robert J Ault
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Danielle Bargala
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Alexandro Kirgin
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Jordan Landry
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Laura Lewis
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Carmen Pacheco-Jones
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Zach Pekelis
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Brennan Schreibman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Sean Waite
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Carolyn Estrada
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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
Answered yes
- 3 · Compensation committee
- 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
- 3 · Compensation survey or study
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
Answered no
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
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
-
$4,069,034
Lawyer Programs
-
$385,584
Civil Legal Aid Support & Outreach
-
Living With Conviction
$197,169
Civil Legal Aid Support & Outreach
-
$171,399
Civil Legal Aid Support & Outreach
-
Crisis Connections
$150,000
Enhanced Screening & Referral
-
$73,137
Civil Legal Aid Support & Outreach
-
$69,025
Civil Legal Aid Support & Outreach
-
$43,001
Civil Legal Aid Support & Outreach
-
$25,000
Civil Legal Aid Support & Outreach
-
$18,773
Civil Legal Aid Support & Outreach
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 14 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202513189349306006
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