Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE.

Totals

Total revenue: $4,152,830
Total expenses: $4,143,018
Contributions and grants received: $4,032,621
Grants paid: $6,734
Program service revenue: $74,856
Investment income: $17,793
Other revenue: $27,560
Total assets, end of year: $11,503,579
Total liabilities, end of year: $964,654
Net assets or fund balances, end of year: $10,538,925
Program services expenses (Part IX): $2,827,483
Management and general expenses: $1,190,299
Fundraising expenses: $125,236
Program service expenses (Part III): $2,827,483

Program services were 68.2% 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.

1c · Fundraising events

$513,896
1e · Government grants (contributions)

$906,648
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

$2,612,077
1g · Noncash contributions included above

$8,351
2a · Program service revenue: CONTRACTUAL SERVICES

total $74,856 · related or exempt $74,856
3 · Investment income

total $17,793 · excluded $17,793
8a · Fundraising events: gross income

$158,578
8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

$513,896
8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

$158,578
8c · Net income from fundraising events

total $0
11a · Other revenue: MISCELLANEOUS

total $27,560 · excluded $27,560
11e · Other revenue, total

$27,560

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

total $6,734 · program services $6,734
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

total $697,352 · program services $496,511 · management and general $200,841
7 · Other salaries and wages

total $1,611,807 · program services $1,147,597 · management and general $464,210
8 · Pension plan contributions

total $36,111 · program services $28,498 · management and general $7,606 · fundraising $7
9 · Other employee benefits

total $191,118 · program services $150,825 · management and general $40,254 · fundraising $39
10 · Payroll taxes

total $183,046 · program services $129,070 · management and general $53,976
11d · Fees: lobbying

total $12,000 · program services $12,000
11g · Fees: other

total $826,615 · program services $517,313 · management and general $226,651 · fundraising $82,651
12 · Advertising and promotion

total $4,857 · program services $4,857
13 · Office expenses

total $82,278 · program services $52,359 · management and general $17,802 · fundraising $12,117
14 · Information technology

total $114,609 · program services $61,542 · management and general $39,701 · fundraising $13,366
16 · Occupancy

total $198,196 · program services $97,890 · management and general $100,306
17 · Travel

total $59,353 · program services $38,393 · management and general $6,806 · fundraising $14,154
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

total $30,589 · program services $22,807 · management and general $5,486 · fundraising $2,296
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

total $60,573 · program services $43,128 · management and general $17,445
24a · Other expenses: ADVOCACY COSTS

total $13,578 · program services $13,578
24b · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS

total $8,163 · program services $4,381 · management and general $3,176 · fundraising $606
24c · Other expenses: BAD DEBT

total $6,039 · management and general $6,039

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

beginning of year $4,388,905 · end of year $6,364,855
3 · Pledges and grants receivable

beginning of year $6,147,652 · end of year $4,060,918
4 · Accounts receivable

beginning of year $39,483
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

beginning of year $23,601 · end of year $28,963
10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

$870,639
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

$479,343
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

beginning of year $243,436 · end of year $391,296
14 · Intangible assets

beginning of year $56,250 · end of year $31,250
15 · Other assets

beginning of year $0 · end of year $626,297
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

beginning of year $341,758 · end of year $483,739
19 · Deferred revenue

beginning of year $28,456
23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

end of year $480,915
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

beginning of year $3,726,502 · end of year $5,195,040
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

beginning of year $6,802,611 · end of year $5,343,885

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE IS A NONPROFIT, PUBLIC INTEREST LAW FIRM COMMITTED TO ADVANCING RACIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE. SUPPORTED AND STAFFED BY ATTORNEYS AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS, THE CENTER DEVELOPS AND PURSUES STRATEGIES TO COMBAT DISCRIMINATION AND POVERTY STATEWIDE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO ADVANCE RACIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND DEVELOP STRATEGIES TO COMBAT DISCRIMINATION AND POVERTY.

Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

Expenses $2,827,483 · Grants $6,734 · Revenue $74,856

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

BILL RAY

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
DAVID LIPMAN

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
DONALD VERRILLI

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
DR TEMIKA SIMMONS

SECRETARY/TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
GORDON GREENWOOD

VICE CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
IVY PARKER SNIDER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JIM RUDOLPH

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JUDITH LICHTMAN

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MARTHA BERGMARK

FOUNDER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

40
MATTHEW BERGMAN

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MIKE ESPY

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
WALTER BOONE

CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
STACEY BUCHANAN

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS/GENERAL COUNSEL

Total calculated

$97,077

From this org

$96,568

From related orgs

$0

Other

$509

Hours/week

40
TONISHA SMITH

FINANCIAL MANAGER

Total calculated

$26,973

From this org

$23,691

From related orgs

$0

Other

$3,282

Hours/week

40
VANGELA M WADE

PRESIDENT/CEO

Total calculated

$239,106

From this org

$230,000

From related orgs

$0

Other

$9,106

Hours/week

40

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$230,000

Bonus

$0

Other

$0

Deferred

$1,407

Nontaxable benefits

$7,699

Filer's total

$239,106
JOHN JOPLING

HOUSING CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$171,125

From this org

$161,607

From related orgs

$0

Other

$9,518

Hours/week

40

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$161,607

Bonus

$0

Other

$0

Deferred

$1,867

Nontaxable benefits

$7,651

Filer's total

$171,125
ROBERT MCDUFF

DIRECTOR, GEORGE RILEY IMP

Total calculated

$195,680

From this org

$185,486

From related orgs

$0

Other

$10,194

Hours/week

40

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$185,486

Bonus

$0

Other

$0

Deferred

$2,539

Nontaxable benefits

$7,655

Filer's total

$195,680

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 · Compensation committee
3 · Independent compensation consultant
3 · Form 990 of other organizations
3 · Written employment contract
3 · Compensation survey or study
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

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 3: THE AUDIT COMMITTEE'S SUBCOMMITTEE ON EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION PERIODICALLY REVIEWS THE COMPENSATION OF THE PRESIDENT & CEO AND OPERATIONS DIRECTOR AS PART OF THE BUDGET-SETTING PROCESS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING. THE BOARD REVIEWS COMPENSATION OF OTHER SAME-SIZE ORGANIZATIONS AND TO INSURE THAT COMPENSATION IS REASONABLE.

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: 2022
Filed: 14 November 2023
IRS schema version: 2022v5.0
Source object: 202343189349315194

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