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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by INNOVATION LAW LAB.

Totals

Total revenue
$4,395,958
Total expenses
$5,643,342
Contributions and grants received
$756,758
Grants paid
$7,860
Program service revenue
$3,307,525
Investment income
$162,623
Other revenue
$169,052
Total assets, end of year
$6,954,748
Total liabilities, end of year
$905,534
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$6,049,214
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$5,020,827
Management and general expenses
$591,804
Fundraising expenses
$30,711
Program service expenses (Part III)
$5,020,827

Program services were 89.0% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $756,758

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $14,536

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Immigration Services

    total $3,227,776 · related or exempt $3,227,776

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Platform Services

    total $79,749 · related or exempt $79,749

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $162,623 · excluded $162,623

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $1,380

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $1,380 · excluded $1,380

  • 11a · Other revenue: Miscellaneous Income

  • 11b · Other revenue: ERC

    total $154,000 · related or exempt $154,000

  • 11c · Other revenue: Settlement

    total $6,682 · related or exempt $6,682

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $6,990 · related or exempt $6,990

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $167,672

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $7,860 · program services $7,860

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $1,109,799 · program services $889,335 · management and general $210,440 · fundraising $10,024

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $2,194,296 · program services $1,960,391 · management and general $224,810 · fundraising $9,095

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $282,960 · program services $248,163 · management and general $33,369 · fundraising $1,428

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $266,734 · program services $235,539 · management and general $29,453 · fundraising $1,742

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $6,200 · management and general $6,200

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $19,013 · program services $16,446 · management and general $2,567

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $24,000 · management and general $24,000

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $217,454 · program services $207,506 · management and general $9,948

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $15,705 · program services $12,222 · management and general $3,483

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $91,610 · program services $82,206 · management and general $4,683 · fundraising $4,721

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $56,615 · program services $56,615

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $235,326 · program services $225,457 · management and general $9,869

  • 17 · Travel

    total $115,959 · program services $112,372 · management and general $3,234 · fundraising $353

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $385,977 · program services $379,737 · management and general $6,240

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $49,666 · program services $33,605 · management and general $16,061

  • 24a · Other expenses: Bank Fees

    total $7,174 · program services $3,551 · management and general $1,883 · fundraising $1,740

  • 24b · Other expenses: Dues & Subscriptions

    total $70,257 · program services $66,037 · management and general $2,842 · fundraising $1,378

  • 24c · Other expenses: Education & Training

    total $4,801 · program services $4,394 · management and general $407

  • 24d · Other expenses: Postage & Delivery

    total $926 · program services $3,074 · management and general -$2,378 · fundraising $230

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $481,010 · program services $476,317 · management and general $4,693

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $2,071,981 · end of year $744,877

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $2,456,332 · end of year $2,980,551

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $46,000 · end of year $660

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $2,330,255 · end of year $2,491,101

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $45,478 · end of year $53,819

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

    $193,602

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

    $36,620

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $19,813 · end of year $156,982

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $862,876 · end of year $509,841

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $30,793 · end of year $16,917

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $552,558 · end of year $892,348

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $14,374 · end of year $13,186

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $6,874,682 · end of year $5,829,773

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $421,914 · end of year $219,441

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Innovation Law Lab seeks to build permanent pathways to immigrant inclusion by designing, implementing and evaluating highly effective and scalable systems of care that address immigrant deportations and civic exclusions on account of immigration status.

  • Stategic Legal Design: Innovation Law Lab seeks to address systemic power asymmetries that keep immigrants and refugees from accessing justice by designing effective and highly scalable pro bono legal programs in underserved detention centers and hostile jurisdictions.

    Expenses $2,496,657 · Revenue $3,044,845

  • Software Development: Innovation Law Labs software engineers work closely with program, legal design and litigation teams to develop technology for large scale case management, efficient remote collaboration, and real time aggregation of data. By bringing technology to the fight for justice, Innovation Law Lab is able to efficiently scale pro bono programs and establish infomation systems in historically siloed advocacy spaces.

    Expenses $959,375 · Revenue $234,764

  • Stategic Program Design and Implementation: Innovation Law Lab seeks to build permanent pathways to immigrant inclusion by designing, implementing and evaluating highly effective and scalable systems of care that address immigant deportations and civil exclusions on account of immigrantion status.

    Expenses $942,805 · Revenue $182,428

  • Anticarceral Legal Organizing (AcLO) Program: Innovation Law Lab seeks to end the practice of immigrant detention by supporting people in ICE detention, advocating for their freedom and exposing the abuses of ICE detention, while partnering with the communities neighboring ICE detention centers to develop pathways to transition rural communities away from a reliance on prison economies.

    Expenses $471,950 · Revenue $127,373

  • Program costs that serve all programs

    Expenses $150,040

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Stephen Manning

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $167,014
    From this org
    $167,014
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    $167,014
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $167,014

  • Jose Cruz

    Director of Products

    Total calculated
    $151,753
    From this org
    $151,753
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    $151,753
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $151,753

  • Tess Hellgren

    Director of Litigation

    Total calculated
    $128,317
    From this org
    $128,317
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jordan Cunnings

    Legal Director

    Total calculated
    $124,696
    From this org
    $124,696
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ian Philabaum

    Director of Legal Organizing

    Total calculated
    $117,630
    From this org
    $117,630
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ariel Prado

    Director of Civic Engagement

    Total calculated
    $117,630
    From this org
    $117,630
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Elizabeth Skokan

    Director of Operations

    Total calculated
    $117,583
    From this org
    $117,583
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Isa Pena

    Director of Strategy

    Total calculated
    $115,865
    From this org
    $115,865
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Benjamin Grass

    Director of Logistics

    Total calculated
    $114,283
    From this org
    $114,283
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Luis Guerra

    PresidentChair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cameron Madill

    Vice PresidentChair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Quinn Lampkin

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alfredo Avila

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alyssa Grass

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Navneet Kaur

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Julie Stumpf

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jessica Boell

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ahmer Inam

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kuli Mavuwa

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation

    Base
    not reported
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    not reported

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

  • 3 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Written employment contract

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
2024
Filed
15 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202543179349301309

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