Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$1,665,388

Total expenses

$601,613

Contributions and grants received

$1,019,040

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$642,132

Investment income

$4,216

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$1,578,028

Total liabilities, end of year

$683

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,577,345

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$481,448

Management and general expenses

$78,737

Fundraising expenses

$41,428

Program service expenses (Part III)

$481,448

Program services were 80.0% 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.

Mission and programs · 2022

• IN 2022, EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW MADE SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS ON BEHALF OF PEOPLE LIVING IN POVERTY. WE WON SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN OUR CHALLENGE TO SACRAMENTO COUNTY'S USE OF MONEY BAIL. THE COURT HELD THAT THE USE OF THE BAIL SCHEDULE WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL BECAUSE IT RESULTED IN PEOPLE REMAINING IN JAIL FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN THEIR INABILITY TO AFFORD BAIL. WE ALSO FILED A LAWSUIT CHALLENGING THE EXTORTION OF INDIVIDUALS THROUGH PRETRIAL AND PROBATION FEES. VANDERBURGH COUNTY, INDIANA, AND THE FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION ABK CHARGE EXORBITANT FEES FOR DRUG AND ALCOHOL TESTING AND ELECTRONIC MONITORING, CREATING A MODERN-DAY DEBTORS' PRISON BY JAILING THOSE WHO CANNOT AFFORD TO PAY. THE COUNTY PAYS NOTHING TO ABK FOR ITS SERVICES; ABK PROFITS BY CHARGING FEES TO EVERY PERSON IT SUPERVISES. ABK THEN SENDS A PORTION OF ITS PROFITS BACK TO THE COUNTY TO PAY FOR PROBATION STAFF AND COURT EXPENSES. THE RESULTING DEBTORS' PRISON CRIMINALIZES POVERTY AND DAMAGES PUBLIC SAFETY, ALL FOR THE FINANCIAL GAIN OF THE COUNTY AND A PRIVATE CORPORATION. ALSO, A NEW LAW IN MISSOURI MAKES IT A CRIME TO SLEEP OR CAMP ON PUBLIC LAND. WE ARE CHALLENGING THIS LAW, WHICH PUTS HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS AT RISK OF UNJUST CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. INSTEAD OF PROVIDING MUCH-NEEDED HOUSING TO THOSE WHO ARE STRUGGLING, THE STATE OF MISSOURI IS PUNISHING PEOPLE FOR THEIR POVERTY. CRIMINALIZATION IS NOT COMPASSION; IT IS CRUELTY. NOT ONLY IS IT CRUEL - IT'S UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

  Expenses $481,448 · Revenue $642,132

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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

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

6 September 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202302549349301110

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