LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

1500 K ST NW STE 900

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

• Voting Rights Project:The Voting Rights Project works through coordinated and integrated programs of litigation, voter protection, advocacy, and education to protect the right to vote for communities of color who are most likely to be disenfranchised. The Project's signature voter protection effort is the nonpartisan Election Protection coalition, a national membership coalition boasting well over 300 organizational members. The Lawyers' Committee serves as co-convener of the coalition and coordinates infrastructure, training and development of volunteer attorneys for the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline that provides expert assistance to voters nationwide.

  Expenses $7,079,371 · Revenue $36,085

• General Legal:The General Legal department coordinates the legal work of the Lawyers' Committee, including litigation and related advocacy across all six projects: Voting Rights , Digital Justice, Criminal Justice, Economic Justice, Educational Opportunities, and Fair Housing & Community development. The Lawyers' Committee also leverages public education and national visibility to inform public discourse and to educate and inform the public and policy makers about our critical work and relevant civil rights issues.

  Expenses $1,115,275 · Grants $121,987 · Revenue $628,383

• Public Education & Educational Opportunities Project:Through litigation, policy, and advocacy, the Educational Opportunities Project works to ensure that Black students and other historically marginalized students of color have access to meaningful and equitable opportunities to succeed in healthy, integrated, diverse, inclusive, and nurturing learning environments free of racism and discrimination The Project uses litigation and policy tools to promote access to higher education, racially inclusive learning environments, and K-12 educational equity. It also combats exploitation of students by for-profit colleges.

  Expenses $1,109,862

• Economic Justice Project:The Economic Justice Project engages in impact litigation and legal advocacy to ensure that communities of color can access opportunities and meaningfully engage in the economy to lead dignified lives free from discrimination.

  Expenses $926,207 · Revenue $13,523

• Fair Housing & Community Development Project:The Fair Housing & Community Development Project fights housing discrimination by working to combat housing and lending discrimination and promote greater opportunity for low-income people of color. Through impact litigation, policy advocacy, consulting services, and support for housing justice organizations, the FHCD Project works to ensure equitable access to crucial resources and meaningful housing choices for Black communities.

  Expenses $774,243 · Revenue $206,241

• Public Policy:The Public Policy Project advocates for the effective advancement of civil rights law at the state and federal level working with other organizations, executive branch officials, and legislators. The Project's work focuses on racial justice issues addressed by the organization's other units, including voting rights, educational opportunities, criminal justice, digital justice, and economic justice.

  Expenses $710,104

• Digital Justice Initiative:The Digital Justice Initiative works at the intersection of racial justice, technology, and privacy. Predatory commercial data practices, discriminatory algorithms, invasions of privacy, disinformation, government surveillance, and online hate disproportionately target and harm Black Americans and other people of color. The project works to ensure that everyone should be entitled to the equal enjoyment of the internet's economic, cultural, and civic opportunities without fear of discrimination.

  Expenses $648,764

• Criminal Justice Project:The Criminal Justice Project challenges structural racism within the criminal justice system and aims to ensure that Black people and other people of color enjoy safety from violence by the state and by white supremacists. Areas of focus include promoting police accountability and combatting the criminalization of poverty and holding white supremacists accountable through a sub-unit known as the James Byrd, Jr. Center to Stop Hate.

  Expenses $538,332

• Pro Bono & Legal Partnerships

  Expenses $144,316

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.

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $18,494,672

  Expenses

  $20,307,251

  Contributions

  $14,873,096

  Grants paid

  $121,987

• 2023

  Revenue

  $16,716,889

  Expenses

  $23,928,459

  Contributions

  $12,145,675

  Grants paid

  $84,337

• 2022

  Revenue

  $21,459,807

  Expenses

  $16,133,236

  Contributions

  $13,230,790

  Grants paid

  $597,000

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

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $38,134,884

  Expenses

  $15,302,543

  Assets (EOY)

  $72,608,635

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $42,304,961

  Expenses

  $14,274,119

  Assets (EOY)

  $50,482,770

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $13,212,011

  Expenses

  $10,179,195

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,401,755

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $12,045,595

  Expenses

  $9,861,646

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,288,702

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,533,880

  Expenses

  $7,241,908

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,395,553

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,786,953

  Expenses

  $7,190,733

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,190,176

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,649,013

  Expenses

  $8,399,120

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,085,315

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,649,013

  Expenses

  $8,399,120

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,085,315

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,867,095

  Expenses

  $9,191,272

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,131,534

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

• GENERATION CITIZEN INC

  $50,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• RESOLUTIONS FIRM LLC

  $50,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• The Urban Institute

  $33,362

  2023 · General Operating Support

• REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH

  $30,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• REBUILDING BROKEN PLACES

  $20,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• BURIED ALIVE PROJECT

  $20,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• POLICE FOR INC

  $20,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• MONTRELL CARMOUCHE LLC

  $20,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• THE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC

  $20,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• KAYA HENDERSON CONSULTING

  $20,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $1,176,985

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $1,027,800

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• TIDES FOUNDATION

  $725,000

  2022 · EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

• NEO PHILANTHROPY INC

  $660,000

  2023 · Program Grant

• NEO PHILANTHROPY INC

  $490,000

  2022 · Program Grant

• NEO PHILANTHROPY INC

  $400,000

  2024 · Program Grant

• ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE -AAJC INC

  $382,260

  2025 · VOTING RIGHTS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $360,350

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• ASSETS UNDER MOVEMENT

  $360,000

  2024 · General operating support and project support

• ASSETS UNDER MOVEMENT

  $351,500

  2023 · General operating support

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

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