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JUSTICE CATALYST INC

EIN 81-4316506 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$2,782,638
Expenses 2024
$5,038,875

Program services were 99.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R99
Classification
1200
Street
40 RECTOR STREET 9TH FLOOR

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

JUSTICE CATALYST TAKES ON SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES THAT FALL BETWEEN THE CRACKS OF TRADITIONAL ADVOCACY MODELS. BY CONNECTING ADVOCATES WITH DIVERSE SPECIALTIES AND APPLYING A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO THE LAW, JUSTICE CATALYST DEVELOPS NEW, PATH-BREAKING APPROACHES TO ENSURE THAT THE LAW SERVES THE PUBLIC INTEREST.

  • JUSTICE CATALYST, INC. LEVERAGES LEGAL CREATIVITY AND EXPERTISE TO ADDRESS INJUSTICES. JUSTICE CATALYST PROVIDES SUPPORT TO INNOVATIVE LEGAL IDEAS IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST BY SUPPORTING, ADVISING, AND FOSTERING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, FIRMS WORKING IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, LAW STUDENTS, GOVERNMENT LAWYERS, ACADEMICS, AND ADVOCATES. JUSTICE CATALYST COLLABORATES WITH AND TRAINS NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS TO LEVERAGE THEIR EXPERTISE, POSITION, AND MEMBERSHIP TO INITIATE WORK THAT ADVANCES THEIR MISSIONS, AND WORKS WITH VARIOUS NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS ON DEVELOPING THEIR CAPACITY FOR INNOVATIVE LEGAL WORK, AND WITH NEW NONPROFIT SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS TO AID THEIR FORMATION. JUSTICE CATALYST MADE A GRANT TO SUPPORT A NONPROFIT PROGRAM THAT FUNDS PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION.

    Expenses $5,002,400 · Grants $5,000,000 · Revenue $200,000

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.

  • BENJAMIN ELGA

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JACOB LIPTON

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JENNIFER BENNETT

    SECRETARY

    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
    $2,782,638
    Expenses
    $5,038,875
    Contributions
    $2,505,000
    Grants paid
    $5,000,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,514,226
    Expenses
    $218,539
    Contributions
    $2,500,000
    Grants paid
    $167,913
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,427,795
    Expenses
    $1,982,174
    Contributions
    $1,410,000
    Grants paid
    $1,264,067

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
    $1,096,456
    Expenses
    $766,769
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,017,805

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $663,700
    Expenses
    $402,257
    Assets (EOY)
    $688,118

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

Where these grants went next →

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 on its 2022 return

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