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NEW JERSEY CIVIL JUSTICE REFORM INSTITUTE INC

EIN 74-3204389 CHERRY HILL, NJ

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Revenue 2025
$499,644
Expenses 2025
$589,892

As filed

Subsection
06
NTEE code
S41
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1101

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 · 2025

Mission

THE NEW JERSEY CIVIL JUSTICE INSTITUTE (THE "INSTITUTE") IS THE STATE'S LEADING ORGANIZATION ADVOCATING FOR THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY ON MATTERS OF LAW AND LEGAL POLICY. THE INSTITUTE PROMOTES A FAIR AND PREDICTABLE CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEM, AND DEFENDS THE VALUE OF THE RULE OF LAW IN PROTECTING INNOVATION AND FOSTERING ECONOMIC GROWTH. THE INSTITUTE ADVOCATES FOR LEGISLATION AND REGULATIONS THAT PROMOTE FAIRNESS, JUSTICE, AND THE RULE OF LAW. THE INSTITUTE ADVOCATES IN THE COURTS FOR CLEAR, CONSISTENT AND EFFICIENT PRINCIPLES OF LAW.

Activities or mission (Part I)

STATE'S LEADING ORGANIZATION ADVOCATING FOR THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY ON MATTERS OF LAW AND LEGAL POLICY. TO PROMOTE A FAIR AND PREDICTABLE CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEM, AND DEFEND THE VALUE OF THE RULE OF LAW IN PROTECTING INNOVATION AND FOSTERING ECONOMIC GROWTH.

  • HOST MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES TO ADDRESS LEGAL POLICY ISSUES OF CONCERN TO MEMBERSHIP AND THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY AT LARGE.

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Elissa Frank

    CEO (SEPT - PRESENT)

    Total calculated
    $73,883
    From this org
    $71,992
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,891
    Hours/week
    40

  • Anthony Anastasio

    CEO (THRU JAN.)

    Total calculated
    $8,365
    From this org
    $5,470
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,895
    Hours/week
    40

  • Scott Hobson

    CHAIR (MAR - PRESENT)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Seth Lamont

    CHAIR (JAN-MAR)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Brian Shoemaker

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Adam Kerns

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Jeanne Walker

    SECRETARY (APR- PRESENT)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Dominick Argento

    TRUSTEE (OCT-PRESENT)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Tina Barton

    TRUSTEE (JAN-OCT)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Amanda Comelotto

    TRUSTEE (JAN-AUG)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Thomas Hyman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Molly Jones

    TRUSTEE (AUG-PRESENT)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Connie Mateo

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Rachelle Mortimer

    TRUSTEE (JAN-APR)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Marcus Rayner

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Aviva Wein

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $499,644
    Expenses
    $589,892
    Contributions
    $140,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $634,678
    Expenses
    $666,305
    Contributions
    $260,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $424,462
    Expenses
    $560,808
    Contributions
    $160,000
    Grants paid
    $2,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $656,818
    Expenses
    $539,235
    Contributions
    $172,500
    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
    $509,872
    Expenses
    $466,785
    Assets (EOY)
    $950,271

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $431,869
    Expenses
    $450,716
    Assets (EOY)
    $914,540

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $524,415
    Expenses
    $506,889
    Assets (EOY)
    $941,410

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $682,856
    Expenses
    $514,410
    Assets (EOY)
    $933,054

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $614,827
    Expenses
    $657,861
    Assets (EOY)
    $771,009

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $539,586
    Expenses
    $688,922
    Assets (EOY)
    $820,214

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $802,133
    Expenses
    $702,750
    Assets (EOY)
    $979,306

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $768,902
    Expenses
    $770,095
    Assets (EOY)
    $881,637

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $812,105
    Expenses
    $714,063
    Assets (EOY)
    $830,780

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $775,526
    Assets (EOY)
    $534,100

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.