Totals
- Total revenue
- $207,058
- Total expenses
- $229,434
- Contributions and grants received
- $206,931
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $127
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $154,960
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $297
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $154,663
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $98,062
- Management and general expenses
- $131,372
- Fundraising expenses
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $98,062
Program services were 42.7% 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.
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1b · Membership dues
$1,466
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$205,465
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3 · Investment income
total $127 · related or exempt $127
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0
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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 $38,628 · management and general $38,628
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $62,183 · program services $12,000 · management and general $50,183
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $0
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $10,335 · management and general $10,335
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $7,345 · management and general $7,345
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $9,340 · management and general $9,340
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $5,225 · program services $5,225
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
-
13 · Office expenses
total $0
-
14 · Information technology
total $0
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $0
-
17 · Travel
total $0
-
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 $0
-
23 · Insurance
total $378 · management and general $378
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24a · Other expenses: PROGRAM CONTRACTORS
total $57,026 · program services $48,076 · management and general $8,950
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24b · Other expenses: CONFERENCES EXPENSE
total $32,761 · program services $32,761
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24c · Other expenses: MERCHANT ACCOUNT FEES
total $3,819 · management and general $3,819
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24d · Other expenses: OFFICE EXPENSE
total $1,082 · management and general $1,082
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24e · All other expenses
total $1,312 · management and general $1,312
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $171,102 · end of year $84,050
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $0
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
end of year $0
-
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 $5,937 · end of year $0
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
-
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
end of year $70,910
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
end of year $297
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $177,039 · end of year $154,663
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
The LPE Collective organizes workshops, a scholarly publication, and other activities bringing together academics and allies committed to understanding and changing the ways law shapes, and is shaped by, struggles for power and value.
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With grant support from the University of California Berkeley School of Law, the LPE Collective produces the Journal of Law and Political Economy, which published four issues in 2025, including two special issues on climate change topics. The 2025 issues featured 22 articles, 9 book reviews and several essays, generating over 65,000 online views and downloads. The Journal also hosted two graduate student fellows.
Expenses $54,710
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In July 2025, we co-organized and co-produced the Global Law and Political Economy Summer Academy, an intensive skill-building workshop for 20 students and faculty over four days in Roccella Jonica, Italy. The program featured roundtable discussions, writing workshops, a cultural excursion, a case study session, master class, and career mentorship sessions.
Expenses $14,434
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As part of our Global LPE Network program, the LPE Collective supported the Law and Society Associations Collaborative Research Network on Law and Political Economy by organizing over 219 participants across 56 panels and roundtables for that organizations May 2025 annual meeting in Chicago, along with an informal networking event. We also produced a separate intensive full day workshop at the University of Chicago, the Law and Political Economy of Social Reproduction, with four panels of scholars and over 30 participants.
Expenses $8,937
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The LPE Collective collaboratively produced two student-centered workshops in the third year of our ongoing APPEAL series, Heterodox Economics Meets Law and Political Economy. In April 2025, the workshop convened in New Haven, CT featuring a scholarly panel on Third World Internationalism, a masterclass on methods in Law and Political Economy, and emerging scholar paper presentations. In November 2025, this workshop convened at John Jay College in New York City with over 90 participants, featuring lectures on the politics and democratizing possibilities of antitrust and accounting, a methodology session, and emerging scholars research presentations.
Expenses $8,703
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In July 2025, our Global LPE Network program produced an intensive writing workshop at McGill University in Montreal for 20 scholars focused on interdisciplinary analysis of socioeconomic policy in Latin America, North America, and other regions. The event included an informal networking gathering and a business meeting of leaders in the Law and Political Economy in the field to explore future international and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Expenses $6,061
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This was the first full year sponsoring and editing the Law and Political Economy ejournal, which we launched in fall 2024 as part of the Legal Scholarship Network Social Science Research Network (SSRN) research paper series. This ejournal compiles abstracts recent LPE papers monthly from many disciplines and global regions, featuring over 30 papers monthly.
Expenses $5,217
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Through our APPEAL program, we held 6 sessions of our online reading and discussion series, What is Capitalism, which has been ongoing since 2020.
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Eric GeorgeERIC GEORGE
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $23,628
- From this org
- $23,628
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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James J VarellasJAMES J VARELLAS
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $15,000
- From this org
- $15,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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John HaskellJOHN HASKELL
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
-
Martha McCluskeyMARTHA MCCLUSKEY
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 25
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Maj GrastenMAJ GRASTEN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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James MoududJAMES MOUDUD
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 20 March 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.0
- Source object
- 202620799349300207
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