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IOWA CIVIL JUSTICE FOUNDATION

EIN 42-1503667 WEST DES MOINES, IA

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Revenue 2024
$157,676
Expenses 2024
$93,570

Program services were 66.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B60
Classification
1200
Street
2910 WESTOWN PKWY

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES THAT INFORM AND EDUCATE ABOUT AMERICAS JUSTICE SYSTEM

  • THE FOUNDATION PROVIDES FUNDING FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES TO ENHANCE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM; TRAIN TRIAL LAWYERS THROUGH CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION; AND PROTECT THE HEALTH, SAFETY AND FINANCIAL WELLBEING OF IOWA FAMILIES.

    Expenses $60,000

  • THE BYARD AND MARCIA BRALEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO INJURED WORKERS, OR FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE INJURED WORKERS, WHO HAVE BEEN SET BACK BY A WORKPLACE INJURY AND ARE IN PURSUIT OF FURTHER EDUCATION.

    Expenses $2,000

  • THE SAFE CYCLING PROJECT (IN COLLABORATION WITH THE IOWA BICYCLE COALITION) WAS LAUNCHED IN 2010, WITH THE INTENTION OF OUTFITTING CHILDREN WITH BICYCLE HELMETS TO HELP PREVENT OR REDUCE INJURIES AND SAVE LIVES.

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.

  • Thomas Wertz

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Janece Valentine

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tim Semelroth

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Eric Bair

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Saffin Parrish-Sams

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jamie Cook

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Anthony Bribriesco

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jenna Cruise

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Rob Conklin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Brooke Timmer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Madison Fiedler-Carlson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Danny Cornell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Andrew Mertens

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $122,488
    From this org
    $101,900
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,588
    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
    $157,676
    Expenses
    $93,570
    Contributions
    $135,159
    Grants paid
    $2,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $179,907
    Expenses
    $83,544
    Contributions
    $156,487
    Grants paid
    $5,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $166,465
    Expenses
    $115,709
    Contributions
    $126,508
    Grants paid
    $4,000

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
    $115,754
    Expenses
    $69,323
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,204,697
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $122,990
    Expenses
    $170,281
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,037,985
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $70,610
    Expenses
    $67,668
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,019,537
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $69,753
    Expenses
    $66,796
    Assets (EOY)
    $895,432
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $49,725
    Expenses
    $66,750
    Assets (EOY)
    $975,693
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $59,829
    Expenses
    $67,185
    Assets (EOY)
    $892,928
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $52,529
    Expenses
    $65,736
    Assets (EOY)
    $886,555

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