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ASCEND JUSTICE

EIN 36-3647731 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2024
$5,085,230
Expenses 2024
$4,787,322

Program services were 77.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
177 N STATE ST

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

OUR MISSION IS TO EMPOWER INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IMPACTED BY GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE OR THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM TO ACHIEVE SAFETY AND STABILITY THROUGH HOLISTIC LEGAL ADVOCACY AND SYSTEMIC REFORM. WE ARE WORKING TOWARD STRONG COMMUNITIES WHERE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER TO NAVIGATE FAIR SYSTEMS AND OVERCOME VIOLENCE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

EMPOWERING INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IMPACTED BY GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE OR THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM TO ACHIEVE SAFETY AND STABILITY THROUGH HOLISTIC LEGAL ADVOCACY AND SYSTEMIC REFORM.

  • IN OUR MOST RECENTLY COMPLETED FISCAL YEAR, ASCEND JUSTICE PROVIDED LEGAL REPRESENTATION OR ADVICE TO APPROXIMATELY 1,000 VICTIMS OF GENDER BASED VIOLENCE SEEKING ORDERS OF PROTECTION, DOMESTIC RELATIONS CASES IN WHICH THEY SEEK DIVORCE, SUPPORT OR CUSTODY OF THEIR CHILDREN, IMMIGRATION PROCEEDINGS INVOLVING U-VISA OR VAWA RELIEF, FAMILY DEFENSE & ECONOMIC JUSTICE CASES, AND CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES FOR INCARCERATED SURVIVORS. ALMOST ALL OF OUR CLIENTS ARE LIVING IN POVERTY, AND OUR FREE, HIGH QUALITY LEGAL SERVICES ARE A CRUCIAL TOOL FOR BREAKING THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE AND KEEPING THEIR FAMILIES SAFE.

    Expenses $3,686,987

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.

  • Nathan Jenks

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shannon Quinn

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lauren Reeves

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jacqui Giannini

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karen Munoz

    IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Humble Mohammed

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pam Munoz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ceylan Bilgin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kapil Gudivada

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peter Huh

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alyssa Ramirez

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leah Song

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Allison Torrence

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paige Barr Tinkham

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alexandra Padrul

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wendy Bloom

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nicole Chen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Theresa Lechner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Miki Goodin

    DIRECTOR (THRU 6/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jessica Swider

    DIRECTOR (THRU 12/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karrie L Dowd

    DIRECTOR (THRU 6/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Margaret Duval

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $134,480
    From this org
    $134,480
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ashley Olsen

    ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $103,700
    From this org
    $103,700
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Danielle Parisi Ruffatto

    MANAGING DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $102,637
    From this org
    $102,637
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Sara Gilloon

    MANAGING DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $100,222
    From this org
    $100,222
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

The first 25 listed. 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
    $5,085,230
    Expenses
    $4,787,322
    Contributions
    $4,952,055
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,176,124
    Expenses
    $4,291,228
    Contributions
    $4,056,413
    Grants paid
    $4,746
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,568,609
    Expenses
    $3,381,666
    Contributions
    $3,560,660
    Grants paid
    $143,446

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
    $2,228,766
    Expenses
    $2,138,798
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,275,996

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,941,906
    Expenses
    $1,777,417
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,120,753

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,750,321
    Expenses
    $1,689,265
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,034,773

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,247,169
    Expenses
    $1,289,104
    Assets (EOY)
    $827,381

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $935,282
    Expenses
    $755,337
    Assets (EOY)
    $861,157

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $921,801
    Expenses
    $779,172
    Assets (EOY)
    $715,235

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $699,607
    Expenses
    $637,370
    Assets (EOY)
    $533,768

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $622,215
    Expenses
    $542,388
    Assets (EOY)
    $470,309

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

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Grants received

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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 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.