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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by MEASURES FOR JUSTICE INSTITUTE.

Totals

Total revenue
$3,937,662
Total expenses
$14,446,012
Contributions and grants received
$3,071,044
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$347,939
Investment income
$504,219
Other revenue
$14,460
Total assets, end of year
$12,657,217
Total liabilities, end of year
$738,213
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$11,919,004
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$12,738,487
Management and general expenses
$789,612
Fundraising expenses
$917,913
Program service expenses (Part III)
$12,738,487

Program services were 88.2% 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)

    $20,167

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $3,050,877

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Program Service Fees

    total $347,939 · related or exempt $347,939

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $487,297 · excluded $487,297

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $10,081,124

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $10,064,202

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $16,922

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $16,922 · excluded $16,922

  • 11a · Other revenue: Other Income

    total $14,460 · related or exempt $14,460

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $14,460

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $330,443 · program services $214,788 · management and general $16,522 · fundraising $99,133

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $9,971,951 · program services $9,079,735 · management and general $417,853 · fundraising $474,363

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $243,555 · program services $208,905 · management and general $19,767 · fundraising $14,883

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $739,680 · program services $633,370 · management and general $70,073 · fundraising $36,237

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $789,574 · program services $676,334 · management and general $71,175 · fundraising $42,065

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $1,284 · program services $1,184 · management and general $25 · fundraising $75

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $41,218 · management and general $41,218

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $666,491 · program services $503,557 · management and general $39,044 · fundraising $123,890

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $186,130 · program services $171,323 · management and general $6,571 · fundraising $8,236

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $39,085 · program services $33,413 · management and general $2,594 · fundraising $3,078

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $329,202 · program services $265,428 · management and general $22,930 · fundraising $40,844

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $237,932 · program services $207,996 · management and general $17,542 · fundraising $12,394

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $403,599 · program services $356,997 · management and general $23,472 · fundraising $23,130

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $337,798 · program services $293,246 · management and general $26,716 · fundraising $17,836

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $66,946 · program services $56,692 · management and general $7,032 · fundraising $3,222

  • 24a · Other expenses: Data Acquisition

    total $24,605 · program services $24,426 · management and general $60 · fundraising $119

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $36,519 · program services $11,093 · management and general $7,018 · fundraising $18,408

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $2,589,585 · end of year $113,231

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $12,910,280 · end of year $4,010,066

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $2,033,333 · end of year $354,391

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $167,385 · end of year $167,609

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $68,882 · end of year $52,631

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $807,000

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $675,677

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $224,535 · end of year $131,323

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $4,598,193 · end of year $7,346,241

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $877,237 · end of year $481,725

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $842,823 · end of year $526,359

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $20,833

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $396,101 · end of year $211,854

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $19,726,138 · end of year $11,087,040

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $2,483,535 · end of year $831,964

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Measures for Justice is a nonpartisan nonprofit that develops data tools that help communities, including the institutions that serve them, reshape how the criminal justice system works.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To collect data to measure the performance of local criminal justice systems.

  • Measures for Justice Institute (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to make accurate criminal justice data available to spur reform. Problem: Criminal justice happens primarily at the local level, across 3,000+ U.S. counties. As a result: criminal justice data is incredibly hard to get, incredibly hard to understand, and incredibly hard to use. This is one of the main reasons it's so hard for communities to rally for change or make informed decisions about what has to be done. (Continued on Schedule O)Solution: A world in which the criminal justice system is fully transparent, accessible, and accountable.To get there, Measures for Justice helps make criminal justice data: - easier to get, - easier to understand, - easier to use.Measures for Justice does this by providing data tools and services that help communities drive the change they want to see. Some of these include: Commons - a platform that allows the public, police, prosecutors, courts to work together to make criminal justice performance data available as the basis for informed decision-making. As part of this process, Commons provides communities with a unique opportunity to set and track criminal justice policy goals.Data Portal - one of the largest bodies of standardized, accurate, and coherent county-level criminal justice data in the country. The Portal allows users to compare the performance of counties within and across states across a series of measures from arrest to post-conviction. The Portal includes a growing number of states, counties and 45 million criminal justice cases - which allows users to generate full county reports and state overviews. Data Assessment Tools - tools that help agencies gauge and improve the quality of their data in preparation for greater transparency.Consulting - We work with agencies/offices/courts to help them improve how they collect and standardize their data based on a series of best practices and model legislation.Research - We conduct original research on data trends and policies to help stakeholders make smart choicesThis program is funded by contributions.

    Expenses $12,738,487 · Revenue $362,399

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

Listed in Part VII

  • Amy Bach

    President/Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $330,443
    From this org
    $320,370
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,073
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $287,370
    Bonus
    $33,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,416
    Nontaxable benefits
    $657
    Filer's total
    $330,443

  • Richard Morello

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4

  • Rosemary Barkett

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • Justin Erlich

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • Cindy Dishmey-Montgomory

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • Jim Kohlenberger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • Ayanna Clunis

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2

  • Nikita Miller

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Lenny Mendonca

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • David Heiner

    Director (starting June 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Samantha Silver

    Chief of Strategy & Operations

    Total calculated
    $271,607
    From this org
    $254,321
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,286
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $228,125
    Bonus
    $26,196
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,286
    Filer's total
    $271,607

  • Jill Wesley

    Chief People & Admin Officer

    Total calculated
    $287,855
    From this org
    $257,595
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,260
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $228,124
    Bonus
    $29,471
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,728
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,532
    Filer's total
    $287,855

  • Benjamin Smith

    VP of Software Architecture

    Total calculated
    $239,692
    From this org
    $217,241
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,451
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $201,018
    Bonus
    $16,223
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,451
    Filer's total
    $239,692

  • Gipsy Escobar

    VP of Product and Design

    Total calculated
    $233,782
    From this org
    $205,161
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,621
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $181,092
    Bonus
    $24,069
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,155
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,466
    Filer's total
    $233,782

  • Ronald Adams

    Chief Product Officer

    Total calculated
    $227,276
    From this org
    $222,076
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,200
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $222,076
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,563
    Nontaxable benefits
    $637
    Filer's total
    $227,276

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

  • 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
  • 3 · Written employment contract
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
2 September 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202523179349302537

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