Form 990-EZ for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$2,178

Total expenses

$29,247

Contributions and grants received

$2,178

Grants paid

— not reported

Program service revenue

— not reported

Membership dues (line 3)

— not reported

Investment income (line 4)

— not reported

Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)

— not reported

Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)

— not reported

Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)

— not reported

Other revenue (line 8)

— not reported

Total assets, end of year

$133,316

Total liabilities, end of year

— not reported

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$133,316

Program service expenses (Part III)

$26,452

Program services were 90.4% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

Mission and programs · 2023

• INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP AND RESEARCH STREAM - In September 2023, APPEAL collaborated with the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Young Scholars Initiative, to produce a three-day workshop series with small group peer-reviewed writing sessions and roundtable discussions. Participants were an interdisciplinary group of PhD students, post-docs, and emerging scholars from Europe, North America, and other regions. This collaboration was part of APPEALs work developing a Law and Political Economy stream for the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy annual conference. APPEAL supported travel and registration costs for five faculty scholars to run the sessions as well as a portion of the workshop meals.

  Expenses $2,312

• WHAT IS CAPITALISM? VIRTUAL READING AND DISCUSSION SERIES - APPEAL produced nine online open sessions for interested scholars, students, policy experts, and others to explore interdisciplinary readings on the legal underpinnings of capitalism. Readings addressed the history, theory, and varying perspectives on capitalism in a variety of topics, such as the dispossession of indigenous peoples land in colonial US mortgage securitization, finance and production in the Global South, and the changing political and legal understandings of labor unions in twentieth century US.

• WORKSHOP SERIES: ENGAGING HETERODOX ECONOMICS WITH LAW AND POLITICAL ECONOMY - APPEAL co-sponsored two New York City workshops developing connections between heterodox economics and Law and Political Economy approaches to policy analysis, organized in collaboration with graduate student groups and economics faculty at John Jay College and The New School for Social Research. Each workshop had over 75 participants and research presentations by graduate students as well as several featured faculty speakers. The first, Integrating Law and Political Economy: Heterodox Institutional Perspectives on Power, featured discussions of the legal foundations of microeconomic analysis, the authoritarian liberalism, and an Economic Bill of Rights for democratic freedom. The second, Heterodox Economics Meets Law and Political Economy: Institutions and Power, featured scholarly presentations on money and corporate power as well as a study of households private efforts to reduce environmental harm.

  Expenses $9,140

• RESEARCH GRANT - APPEAL continued as a sponsor of a research grant from the Economic Security Project for a a research project and journal symposium on anti-monopoly and regulation.

  Expenses $10,000

• CONFERENCE CO-SPONSOR - APPEAL provided support for the conference Money as a Democratic Medium 2.0, at Harvard Law School.

  Expenses $5,000

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part IV

Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990_ez

Tax year

2023

Filed

14 May 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.0

Source object

202401359349205575

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