Totals
- Total revenue
- $2,727,995
- Total expenses
- $1,757,616
- Contributions and grants received
- $2,663,104
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $32,000
- Investment income
- $25,927
- Other revenue
- $6,964
- Total assets, end of year
- $2,943,756
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $137,885
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $2,805,871
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $1,330,669
- Management and general expenses
- $214,378
- Fundraising expenses
- $212,569
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $1,330,669
Program services were 75.7% 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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1c · Fundraising events
$29,430
-
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$2,633,674
-
2a · Program service revenue: Attorney fees & awards
total $32,000 · related or exempt $32,000
-
3 · Investment income
total $25,927 · excluded $25,927
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $0
-
6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
-
8a · Fundraising events: gross income
$5,670
-
8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$29,430
-
8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses
$13,570
-
8c · Net income from fundraising events
total -$7,900 · excluded -$7,900
-
9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
-
11a · Other revenue: Other income
total $14,864 · excluded $14,864
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$14,864
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0
-
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 $422,317 · program services $289,937 · management and general $58,678 · fundraising $73,702
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $730,905 · program services $600,511 · management and general $58,560 · fundraising $71,834
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $26,040 · program services $21,953 · management and general $1,848 · fundraising $2,239
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $78,595 · program services $57,315 · management and general $9,401 · fundraising $11,879
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $80,168 · program services $61,804 · management and general $8,189 · fundraising $10,175
-
11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $6,316 · management and general $6,316
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $54,450 · management and general $54,450
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $180,410 · program services $152,386 · management and general $1,289 · fundraising $26,735
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $1,389 · program services $805 · fundraising $584
-
13 · Office expenses
total $19,727 · program services $15,209 · management and general $2,013 · fundraising $2,505
-
14 · Information technology
total $15,255 · program services $11,761 · management and general $1,558 · fundraising $1,936
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $48,850 · program services $37,688 · management and general $5,054 · fundraising $6,108
-
17 · Travel
total $38,082 · program services $38,082
-
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 $951 · program services $733 · management and general $97 · fundraising $121
-
23 · Insurance
total $12,741 · program services $9,823 · management and general $1,301 · fundraising $1,617
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24a · Other expenses: Dues, licenses, other fees
total $26,962 · program services $22,187 · management and general $4,775
-
24b · Other expenses: Litigation and other
total $14,458 · program services $10,475 · management and general $849 · fundraising $3,134
-
24e · All other expenses
total $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $588,350 · end of year $992,993
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $31,154 · end of year $1,307,070
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $1,214,396 · end of year $626,328
-
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 $7,661 · end of year $13,492
-
10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$21,959
-
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$18,086
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $1,306 · end of year $3,873
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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
beginning of year $192,877 · end of year $0
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $170,252 · end of year $137,885
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $590,496 · end of year $642,256
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $1,274,996 · end of year $2,163,615
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment. Our three-pronged advocacy approach combines litigation and other legal advocacy, outreach and coalition building, and education through eJective messaging and communication strategies. EJSs overarching strategy is to broaden anti-discrimination policy, practice, and jurisprudence to include strategies that combat unconscious and structural bias and to promote policies that eliminate disparate outcomes for our system-impacted community partners.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation's consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts.
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Law and Policy: EJS is proactively strengthening the legal infrastructure by anticipating challenges and coordinating with civil rights partners to defend, protect, and expand hard fought rights and gains. Our law and policy work centers harm repair. In our education equity efforts, we are reforming discriminatory school discipline practices in California.
Expenses $1,023,293 · Revenue $32,000
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Communications Strategy: We aim to serve as a national thought leader in shaping public understanding and support for harm repair as essential to racial equity and building an inclusive, multiracial democracy.
Expenses $307,376
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
-
Lisa Holder
President
- Total calculated
- $272,069
- From this org
- $229,600
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $42,469
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $229,600
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $11,000
- Nontaxable benefits
- $31,469
- Filer's total
- $272,069
-
Mona Tawatao
Legal Director
- Total calculated
- $177,306
- From this org
- $149,796
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $27,510
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $149,796
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $7,428
- Nontaxable benefits
- $20,082
- Filer's total
- $177,306
-
Anna Basallaje
COO
- Total calculated
- $150,247
- From this org
- $141,623
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $8,624
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $141,623
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $7,002
- Nontaxable benefits
- $1,622
- Filer's total
- $150,247
-
Keith Kamisugi
Comms Director
- Total calculated
- $132,571
- From this org
- $111,678
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $20,893
- Hours/week
- 35
-
Fernando Gaytan
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
John Bonifaz
Secretary/Treas
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Pamela Perkins Dwyer
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Michael Harris
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Kelly M Dermody
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Raymond Marshall
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Donald K Tamaki
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Sheila Warren
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. 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 · Written employment contract
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
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
- 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
- 14 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202523189349316207
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