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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by JUSTICE DEFENDERS.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,331,729
Total expenses
$3,023,876
Contributions and grants received
$1,244,146
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$79,691
Other revenue
$7,892
Total assets, end of year
$1,620,174
Total liabilities, end of year
$132,598
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,487,576
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,878,075
Management and general expenses
$916,071
Fundraising expenses
$229,730
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,878,075

Program services were 62.1% 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

    $1,244,146

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $79,691 · excluded $79,691

  • 11a · Other revenue: OTHER INCOME

    total $7,892 · related or exempt $7,892

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $7,892

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $229,560 · program services $182,472 · management and general $31,322 · fundraising $15,766

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $1,290,408 · program services $941,448 · management and general $249,275 · fundraising $99,685

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $4,060 · program services $3,369 · management and general $691

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $86,575 · program services $61,948 · management and general $24,627

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $35,907 · program services $504 · management and general $35,403

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $34,123 · program services $2,367 · management and general $31,756

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $59,012 · management and general $59,012

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $301,890 · program services $79,106 · management and general $157,235 · fundraising $65,549

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $29,966 · program services $27,075 · management and general $2,771 · fundraising $120

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $45,887 · program services $42,565 · management and general $3,322

  • 17 · Travel

    total $130,797 · program services $22,929 · management and general $83,595 · fundraising $24,273

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $1,148 · fundraising $1,148

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $23,916 · program services $4,235 · management and general $19,681

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $39,875 · management and general $39,875

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $3,636 · program services $858 · management and general $2,778

  • 24a · Other expenses: LEGAL PRACTICE

    total $337,392 · program services $337,392

  • 24b · Other expenses: FOREIGN EXCHANGE LOSS

    total $117,708 · program services $7,439 · management and general $110,269

  • 24c · Other expenses: LEGAL EDUCATION

    total $73,851 · program services $70,664 · fundraising $3,187

  • 24d · Other expenses: SUBSCRIPTIONS AND LICEN

    total $56,431 · program services $9,527 · management and general $35,997 · fundraising $10,907

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $121,734 · program services $84,177 · management and general $28,462 · fundraising $9,095

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $3,176,594 · end of year $1,467,148

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $16,478

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $11,925 · end of year $37,309

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $89,230 · end of year $35,741

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

    $251,685

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

    $191,637

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $108,779 · end of year $60,048

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $16,344 · end of year $3,450

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $223,149 · end of year $132,598

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $3,030,383 · end of year $1,368,269

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $149,340 · end of year $119,307

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

JUSTICE DEFENDERS PROVIDES LEGAL EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND PRACTICE WITHIN DEFENSELESS COMMUNITIES. FOUNDED IN 2007, WE WORK ACROSS 35+ PRISONS IN AFRICA WHERE INCARCERATED PEOPLE AND OFFICERS TRAIN AND PROVIDE LEGAL SERVICES FOR THEMSELVES AND OTHERS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

JUSTICE DEFENDERS PROVIDES LEGAL EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND PRACTICE WITHIN DEFENSELESS COMMUNITIES. FOUNDED IN 2007, JUSTICE DEFENDERS WORK ACROSS 35+ PRISONS IN AFRICA WHERE INCARCERATED PEOPLE AND OFFICERS TRAIN AND PROVIDE LEGAL SERVICES FOR THEMSELVES AND OTHERS.

  • IN MANY COUNTRIES, SUSPECTS ARE DETAINED IN PRISON ALMOST AUTOMATICALLY ONCE THEY ARE ARRESTED. WHATEVER THE OFFENSE. SOME, YES, ARE GUILTY. MANY ARE POOR, VULNERABLE, AND UNJUSTLY TARGETED. REGARDLESS, LIVES ARE LOST WAITING FOR JUSTICE TO ARRIVE. OUR WORK HELPS THE HUMANS WITHIN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM FLOURISH. AND THIS INCREASED CAPACITY PROMOTES MORE EQUITABLE, JUST, AND PEACEFUL SOCIETIES, IN KEEPING WITH THE UN'S 2030 SDG 16. SINCE OUR FUNDING, 100,000+ INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN SERVED VIA LEGAL DEFENSE; 600+ PARALEGALS HAVE BEEN TRAINED IN PRISON, 59 OF WHICH GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF NELSON MANDELA; AND 37,000+ INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN RELEASED. IN 2024 ALONE, 45+ PARALEGALS WERE TRAINED, 30,000+ INDIVIDUALS WERE SERVICED VIA FREE LEGAL DEFENSE, AND 15,000+ INDIVIDUALS WERE RELEASED AND RETURNED TO THEIR FAMILIES. WE DREAM OF A DAY WHERE NO ONE IS PUNISHED OR IMPRISONED - AND CERTAINLY NOT CANED OR EXECUTED - WITHOUT TELLING THEIR SIDE OF THE STORY. OUR HOPE IS FOR A WORLD WHERE EACH OF US IS EQUALLY ACCOUNTABLE TO AND PROTECTED BY THE LAW. BECAUSE THERE CAN BE NO JUSTICE WITHOUT PEACE, AND THERE CAN BE NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE.

    Expenses $1,878,075

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • David Hollow

    PAST GLOBAL CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Luis Franceschi

    GLOBAL CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Trevor Dighton

    GLOBAL TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Holt

    USA DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Janet Lintott

    USA DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Xochi Birch

    GLOBAL DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sally Cook

    GLOBAL DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jonathan Stewart Philip Coulson

    GLOBAL DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anne Merriman

    GLOBAL DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alexander McLean

    GLOBAL CEO/ USA SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $229,561
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $229,561
    Hours/week
    30

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Disregarded entities

Part I: entities that legally are the filer and file no return of their own.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
17 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202513219349308561

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