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WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE

EIN 86-0817170 PHOENIX, AZ

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Revenue 2024
$517,862
Expenses 2024
$477,738

Program services were 85.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80
Classification
2000
Street
3707 N 7TH ST STE 300

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The William E. Morris Institute for Justice advocates on behalf of low income Arizonans in historically marginalized communities, protecting their most basic civil and human rights.

Activities or mission (Part I)

William E. Morris Institute for Justice (The Institute or MIJ) was established and incorporated under the laws of the State of Arizona on February 26, 1996, to provide a broad spectrum of administrative and legal advocacy services for low-income and other vulnerable individuals. MIJs work includes federal and state administrative advocacy; legal and policy analysis, research, and advocacy; litigation; public legal education; civil legal aid and poverty law training and technical assistance; substantive task force coordination; and legislative advocacy.MIJ primarily focuses on systemic legal issues in the areas of housing, consumer protection, food security, health care, unemployment compensation, and other public benefits and assistance programs. MIJs work ensures that low-income and other vulnerable persons have fair and equal access to public programs and services, as well as meaningful participation in fair hearings and other procedures associated with access and participation in pu

  • MIJ's program accomplishments include successful administrative and policy advocacy ensuring economic security, food security, and health care justice for low-income Arizonans statewide; successful civil rule change advocacy ensuring the availability of resources to support access to justice; and protection of Arizona consumers from predatory financial and lending practices. MIJ remains engaged in ongoing advocacy efforts with Arizona State Government officials to improve the administration of public benefits and entitlements programs and services. All of MIJ's program activities broadly serve low-income Arizonans, communities of color, immigrants and new Americans living in Arizona, and vulnerable Ariona youth, among other populations experiencing disproportionate harm from systemic problems affecting access to basic needs. MIJs programs address systemic problems affecting vulnerable Arizonans access to economic security, food and nutrition, health care, housing, the courts and government systems, and due process in the administration of public programs and services.

    Expenses $408,813

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Andrew P Schaffer

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $119,300
    From this org
    $119,300
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Veronika Fabian

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rebecca McCracken Pringle

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gordon Lewis

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jared Sutton

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Barbara Atwood

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ronda Beckerleg-Thraen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eric Dahlstrom

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brandon Delgado

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Randy McDonald

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bernardo Velasco

    Director

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $517,862
    Expenses
    $477,738
    Contributions
    $513,677
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $377,453
    Expenses
    $512,483
    Contributions
    $378,086
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $319,375
    Expenses
    $471,013
    Contributions
    $319,344
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $312,624
    Expenses
    $422,646
    Assets (EOY)
    $477,362

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $410,664
    Expenses
    $374,441
    Assets (EOY)
    $574,852

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $409,320
    Expenses
    $351,620
    Assets (EOY)
    $526,735

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $326,121
    Expenses
    $254,462
    Assets (EOY)
    $455,566

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $185,213
    Expenses
    $174,783
    Assets (EOY)
    $255,919

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.