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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by MEASURES FOR JUSTICE INSTITUTE.

Totals

Total revenue
$7,457,391
Total expenses
$13,074,281
Contributions and grants received
$6,564,663
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$213,300
Investment income
$641,537
Other revenue
$37,891
Total assets, end of year
$23,469,430
Total liabilities, end of year
$1,259,757
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$22,209,673
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$12,143,057
Management and general expenses
$210,148
Fundraising expenses
$721,076
Program service expenses (Part III)
$12,143,057

Program services were 92.9% 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)

    $29,032

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $6,535,631

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Program Service Fees

    total $213,300 · related or exempt $213,300

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $641,537 · excluded $641,537

  • 11a · Other revenue: Other Income

    total $37,891 · related or exempt $37,891

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $37,891

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $283,076 · program services $183,999 · management and general $14,154 · fundraising $84,923

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $8,503,283 · program services $8,144,190 · management and general $74,530 · fundraising $284,563

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $179,383 · program services $159,930 · management and general $8,092 · fundraising $11,361

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $533,555 · program services $519,904 · fundraising $13,651

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $669,262 · program services $636,868 · management and general $5,824 · fundraising $26,570

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $500 · management and general $500

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $33,710 · management and general $33,710

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $1,116,667 · program services $934,390 · management and general $34,576 · fundraising $147,701

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $337,372 · program services $272,287 · management and general $42 · fundraising $65,043

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $40,277 · program services $33,512 · management and general $2,829 · fundraising $3,936

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $359,389 · program services $321,773 · management and general $1,578 · fundraising $36,038

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $224,960 · program services $214,178 · management and general $1,956 · fundraising $8,826

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $380,474 · program services $353,947 · management and general $11,218 · fundraising $15,309

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $321,084 · program services $294,642 · management and general $5,629 · fundraising $20,813

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $58,705 · program services $45,747 · management and general $11,144 · fundraising $1,814

  • 24a · Other expenses: Data Acquisition

    total $24,044 · program services $24,042 · fundraising $2

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $8,540 · program services $3,648 · management and general $4,366 · fundraising $526

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $2,496,994 · end of year $2,589,585

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $22,432,293 · end of year $12,910,280

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $2,914,200 · end of year $2,033,333

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $7,000 · end of year $167,385

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $164,408 · end of year $68,882

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

    $807,000

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

    $582,465

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $321,331 · end of year $224,535

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $4,598,193

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $751,046 · end of year $877,237

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $814,005 · end of year $842,823

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    end of year $20,833

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $530,347 · end of year $396,101

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $24,011,778 · end of year $19,726,138

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $3,731,142 · end of year $2,483,535

Mission and programs · 2023

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 $12,143,057 · Revenue $251,191

As filed on the 2023 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
    $283,076
    From this org
    $274,996
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,080
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $274,996
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,341
    Nontaxable benefits
    $739
    Filer's total
    $283,076

  • Richard Morello

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4

  • Edwin Schallert

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • 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

    Director

    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

  • Samantha Silver

    Chief of Strategy & Operations

    Total calculated
    $248,136
    From this org
    $228,125
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,011
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $228,125
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,088
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,923
    Filer's total
    $248,136

  • Jill Wesley

    Chief People & Admin Officer

    Total calculated
    $257,184
    From this org
    $228,125
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,059
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $228,125
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,033
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,026
    Filer's total
    $257,184

  • Benjamin Smith

    VP of Software Architecture

    Total calculated
    $221,847
    From this org
    $195,580
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,267
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $195,580
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,328
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,939
    Filer's total
    $221,847

  • Precious Freeman

    VP of National Engagement

    Total calculated
    $182,060
    From this org
    $181,092
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $968
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $181,092
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $968
    Filer's total
    $182,060

  • Robert Hutchison

    Chief of Staff

    Total calculated
    $208,425
    From this org
    $181,092
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,333
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $181,092
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,325
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,008
    Filer's total
    $208,425

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
2023
Filed
7 October 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202443099349301324

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