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WORKER JUSTICE CENTER OF NEW YORK INC

EIN 16-1155130 ROCHESTER, NY

Revenue 2024
$2,347,195
Expenses 2024
$2,381,547

Program services were 81.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80Z
Classification
3000
Street
1187 CULVER RD

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

Worker Justice Center of New York, Inc. (WJCNY) pusues juistice for those denied hian rights, with a focus on agricultural and other low-wage workers, through legal representation, community empowerment and advocacy for institutional change.

  • Legal Services and Outreach: Our advocates build trust and cultivate connections among vulnerable workers and their communities. We educate around 5,000 agricultural workers and workers in low-wage industries each year on their legal rights and empower workers in exercising those rights or in accessing programs or benefits, serving an average of 1,000-1,500 annually. We focus on marginalized communities that otherwise lack meaningful access to essential services and legal resources. We provide access to justice exploited and abused workers, hold bad actors accountable for their actions, and engage in strategic litigation to advance workers' rights. We focus on wage and hour violations, civil human trafficking litigation, workplace health and safety standards, agricultural worker protections, illegal discrimination and retaliation claims, violations of guestworker program regulations, farmworker housing issues, and immigration remedies for exploited and abused workers. This program is primarily supported by contributions.

    Expenses $1,513,898 · Revenue $53,001

  • Survivor Services for Human Trafficking and Domestic and Sexual Violence: We work side-by-side with survivors of human trafficking and domestic and sexual violence to achieve safety and self-determination, as well as on a limited basis with survivors of domestic and sexual violeance. We focus on providing trauma-informed services that are client-centered from start to finish, ensuring access to appropriate support services and high-quality legal assistance. We investigate and interrupt human trafficking schemes, while working to transform the culture of the anti-trafficking field by leading victim-centered training programs for service providers and law enforcement. Our human trafficking specialists work closelt with law enforcement and our legal team to hold perpetrators accountable and to support trafficking survivors on their path to self-determination. This program is primarily supported by contributions.

    Expenses $237,353 · Revenue $8,154

  • Advocacy: We partner with worker centers and organizations to build power for vulnerable workers, address the root causes of workplace injustice, and advance public policies that strengthen the legal rights and protections of workers. This program is primarily supported by contributions.

    Expenses $180,007 · Revenue $6,795

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

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.

  • Eric Binazeski

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ed Felton

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ken Armes

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Linda Donahue

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Yolanda Villa

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Milan Bhatt

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Janet Fry

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laura LeCour

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Janet Hernandez

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alaina Varvaloucas Esq

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $49,029
    From this org
    $49,029
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Peter Rosenblum Esq

    Co-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erin Casey Esq

    Co-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sandy Oxford

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lew Papenfuse

    Former Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $60,375
    From this org
    $60,375
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $2,347,195
    Expenses
    $2,381,547
    Contributions
    $2,278,948
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,607,949
    Expenses
    $2,406,126
    Contributions
    $1,542,724
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,631,353
    Expenses
    $2,504,386
    Contributions
    $2,591,714
    Grants paid
    $51,393

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
    $3,169,799
    Expenses
    $2,315,142
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,430,162

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,925,356
    Expenses
    $2,649,098
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,931,259

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,145,091
    Expenses
    $2,669,763
    Assets (EOY)
    $988,794

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,245,709
    Expenses
    $2,380,051
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,311,078

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,735,075
    Expenses
    $2,016,800
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,372,793

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,871,942
    Expenses
    $1,785,009
    Assets (EOY)
    $611,932

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 on its 2024 return

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.