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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by MEASURES FOR JUSTICE INSTITUTE.

Totals

Total revenue
$9,702,895
Total expenses
$12,777,237
Contributions and grants received
$8,582,063
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$880,412
Investment income
$231,637
Other revenue
$8,783
Total assets, end of year
$9,122,088
Total liabilities, end of year
$149,127
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$8,972,961
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$10,461,526
Management and general expenses
$1,182,654
Fundraising expenses
$1,133,057
Program service expenses (Part III)
$10,461,526

Program services were 81.9% 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.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $8,582,063

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Program Service Fees

    total $880,412 · related or exempt $880,412

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $231,294 · excluded $231,294

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $14,102,040

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

    securities $14,101,697

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $343

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $343 · excluded $343

  • 11a · Other revenue: Other Income

    total $8,783 · related or exempt $8,783

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $8,783

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $323,594 · program services $210,336 · management and general $16,180 · fundraising $97,078

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $9,040,505 · program services $7,547,646 · management and general $800,285 · fundraising $692,574

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $236,226 · program services $202,689 · management and general $19,182 · fundraising $14,355

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $744,117 · program services $615,144 · management and general $67,093 · fundraising $61,880

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $714,071 · program services $593,537 · management and general $62,253 · fundraising $58,281

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $40,892 · management and general $40,892

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $419,856 · program services $344,661 · management and general $42,079 · fundraising $33,116

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $183,332 · program services $77,105 · management and general $40,326 · fundraising $65,901

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $15,691 · program services $10,102 · management and general $3,073 · fundraising $2,516

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $268,543 · program services $221,931 · management and general $21,192 · fundraising $25,420

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $235,716 · program services $195,449 · management and general $20,562 · fundraising $19,705

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $145,731 · program services $112,677 · management and general $8,428 · fundraising $24,626

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $329,668 · program services $273,104 · management and general $28,784 · fundraising $27,780

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $64,913 · program services $53,908 · management and general $5,568 · fundraising $5,437

  • 24a · Other expenses: Data Acquisition

    total $196 · program services $196

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $14,186 · program services $3,041 · management and general $6,757 · fundraising $4,388

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $113,231 · end of year $455,249

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $4,010,066 · end of year $3,402,546

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $354,391 · end of year $466,688

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $167,609 · end of year $34,570

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $52,631 · end of year $76,169

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

    $807,000

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

    $768,889

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $131,323 · end of year $38,111

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $7,346,241 · end of year $4,555,514

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $481,725 · end of year $93,241

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $526,359 · end of year $76,536

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    end of year $30,000

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $211,854 · end of year $42,591

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $11,087,040 · end of year $8,047,162

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $831,964 · end of year $925,799

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

We are changing the future of criminal justice by developing tools that help communities, including the institutions that serve them, reshape how the 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 choices.This program is funded by contributions.

    Expenses $10,461,526 · Revenue $889,195

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • 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

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Amy Bach

    President/Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $323,594
    From this org
    $298,004
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,590
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $279,900
    Bonus
    $18,104
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,483
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,107
    Filer's total
    $323,594

  • Samantha Silver

    Chief of Strategy & Operations

    Total calculated
    $277,848
    From this org
    $236,565
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $41,283
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $222,193
    Bonus
    $14,372
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,867
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,416
    Filer's total
    $277,848

  • Jill Wesley

    Chief People & Admin Officer

    Total calculated
    $282,275
    From this org
    $236,565
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $45,710
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $220,596
    Bonus
    $15,969
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,576
    Nontaxable benefits
    $38,134
    Filer's total
    $282,275

  • Benjamin Smith

    VP of Engineering

    Total calculated
    $262,760
    From this org
    $219,042
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,718
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $209,726
    Bonus
    $9,316
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,960
    Nontaxable benefits
    $37,758
    Filer's total
    $262,760

  • Precious Freeman

    VP of Civic Impact

    Total calculated
    $234,872
    From this org
    $219,043
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,829
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $210,486
    Bonus
    $8,557
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,829
    Filer's total
    $234,872

  • Robert Hutchison

    Chief of Staff

    Total calculated
    $230,919
    From this org
    $187,793
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,126
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $179,236
    Bonus
    $8,557
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,890
    Nontaxable benefits
    $37,236
    Filer's total
    $230,919

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
2025
IRS schema version
2025v4.2
Source object
202642649349300629

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