Totals
- Total revenue
- $625,821
- Total expenses
- $961,713
- Contributions and grants received
- $624,630
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $41
- Other revenue
- $1,150
- Total assets, end of year
- $870,469
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $36,545
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $833,924
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $692,392
- Management and general expenses
- $86,548
- Fundraising expenses
- $182,773
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $692,392
Program services were 72.0% 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.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$624,630
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3 · Investment income
total $41 · excluded $41
-
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
-
8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
-
9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
-
11a · Other revenue: Honorarium Fees
total $1,150 · related or exempt $1,150
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$1,150
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 $279,313 · program services $223,451 · management and general $27,931 · fundraising $27,931
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $75,000 · program services $60,000 · management and general $7,500 · fundraising $7,500
-
8 · Pension plan contributions
total $1,536 · program services $1,228 · management and general $154 · fundraising $154
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $0
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $27,762 · program services $22,210 · management and general $2,776 · fundraising $2,776
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $0
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $14,073 · program services $11,259 · management and general $1,407 · fundraising $1,407
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $96,222 · fundraising $96,222
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $360,322 · program services $288,256 · management and general $36,033 · fundraising $36,033
-
12 · Advertising and promotion
total $3,371 · program services $2,697 · management and general $337 · fundraising $337
-
13 · Office expenses
total $0
-
14 · Information technology
total $56,032 · program services $44,826 · management and general $5,603 · fundraising $5,603
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $898 · program services $718 · management and general $90 · fundraising $90
-
17 · Travel
total $20,688 · program services $16,550 · management and general $2,069 · fundraising $2,069
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $10,710 · program services $8,568 · management and general $1,071 · fundraising $1,071
-
20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
-
23 · Insurance
total $738 · program services $590 · management and general $74 · fundraising $74
-
24a · Other expenses: Professional Development
total $6,976 · program services $5,580 · management and general $698 · fundraising $698
-
24b · Other expenses: Bank & Payment Processing Fees
total $2,366 · program services $1,892 · management and general $237 · fundraising $237
-
24c · Other expenses: Materials & Supplies
total $2,306 · program services $1,844 · management and general $231 · fundraising $231
-
24d · Other expenses: Postage and Shipping
total $1,452 · program services $1,162 · management and general $145 · fundraising $145
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24e · All other expenses
total $1,948 · program services $1,561 · management and general $192 · fundraising $195
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $909,528 · end of year $475,449
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $100,040 · end of year $250,081
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $158,000 · end of year $136,200
-
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 $2,318 · end of year $8,739
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
-
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
end of year $0
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $70 · end of year $28,751
-
25 · Other liabilities
end of year $7,794
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $1,169,816 · end of year $833,924
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
Our mission is to foster emerging leaders as they build a more just and representative appellate field.
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Too often, appellate courts make high-stakes decisions with little connection to the communities most affected. Were changing that. By fostering emerging appellate leaders, were ensuring our courts better reflect the people, values, and realities of our time. In 2025, The Appellate Project equipped emerging leaders with the skills, networks, and community they need to thrive. TAP strengthened partnerships with law firms, bar associations, and judicial institutions. Key collaborations to help advance future leaders included conversations with judges and clerks in the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, the U.S. Supreme Court for the Seventh Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. TAP also fostered community and mobilized collective power through alumni gatherings and networking events, and partnered with organizations including the Asian American Bar Association and Black Women in Law. We completed our first formal strategic planning process, engaging hundreds of community members. As recommended by that process, we laid the groundwork for future initiatives by strengthening TAPs governance infrastructure, growing the Board of Directors, hiring a COO and refreshing our brand and redesigning our website to better reflect our programs and impact to better communicate how we contribute to our vision of an appellate system where the advocates, judges, and rulings from our highest courts reflect the communities they most impact. When appellate courts reflect the perspectives and lived experiences of the full public, the outcomes will be more just, the reasoning more rigorous, and the legal system more credible.
Expenses $692,392
As filed on the 2025 return.
Listed in Part VII
-
Juvaria Khan
CEO
- Total calculated
- $214,839
- From this org
- $214,839
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $214,839
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported
- Filer's total
- $214,839
-
Angela Franchino
COO
- Total calculated
- $64,474
- From this org
- $64,474
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Ian Courts
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Briaunna Buckner Durhal
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
King Adjel-Frimpong
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Paul Watford
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Justin Lam
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Afshan Paarlberg
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Yiyang Wu
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
None.
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
- Filed
- 15 June 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.1
- Source object
- 202641669349301489
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