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CENTER FOR NULEADERSHIP ON URBAN SOLUTIONS INC

EIN 45-4968344 BROOKLYN, NY

Revenue 2024
$2,029,319
Expenses 2024
$2,142,659

Program services were 78.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I40
Classification
1200
Street
12 PARK ST 333

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 shift the paradigm and practice of public safety, justice and accountability from criminal justice to Human Justicean outcomes-driven liberation framework to redirect human resources (social, cultural, financial and political)from punishment-oriented systems and pedagogy to more equitable, sustainable and self-determined solutions. Human Justice is our original framework, launched in 2011. Human Justice = Human Rights + Human DevelopmentWe believe that justice cannot be achieved if the starting point is criminal. We believe that pathways to true safety and accountability is by building community generational wealth and health, together.We aim to shift the paradigm and practice of public safety from criminal justice to Human Justice. In other words, criminal justice puts the focus on things like nicer jails, police trainings, and ending cash bail (among other things). Human Justice focuses on building community generational wealth and health in communities destroyed by

  • Village Takeback - is all about system triaging and intervention in order to take back our youth and the Million Dollar Blocks (due to incarceration) in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. We focus hyper-locally to build deep roots of healing, power, organizing seeds. VT provides i) system triage through post-bail out support, arrest diversion organizing at the precinct level and gun diversion programming for eventual dismissal of conviction; ii) community statbilization through guaranteed income and communiversity sessions. Through VT, we provided guaranteed income support of 600/month to 12 families over 6-12 months; provided guaranteed income, housing, childcare, grocery, transportation and phone connection as part of post-bail support and stabilization for 5 people; organized over 10 community village circles and events on the Million Dollar Blocks of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn to listen, survey and build with the residents and system involved youth of Bed-Stuy; we surveyed over 250 bed-stuy community residents about safety, health and community needs and dreams.

    Expenses $638,701

  • NuLegacy - connects New Yorkers of color whose lives have been devastated by incarceration to the regenerative power of nature and land. Right now, through our live-in residency at WILDSEED Community Farm & Healing Village, we provide experiences such as camping, farming training, medicine workshops, healing circles, wellness retreats, reconnection gatherings, creative space for artists, and respite for family members visiting loved ones in upstate prisons. NuLegacy nurtures the skills and provides the experiences necessary for people to live, heal, and thrive in nature and to steward land in healthy and harmonious ways. Through NuLegacy, we organized three first-time exposure and experience gatherings for a total of 160 people from the five boroughs of NYC through our organizational residency with the Wildseed Community Farm which we won in 2021. We also organized 3 camping trips for 6 Brooklyn youth who have never camped before.

    Expenses $376,719

  • Human Justice Lab for Training and Policy (HJLTP)- provides a space for sharing best practices, expertise, tools and access to resources for service providers/educators; system-impacted individuals; and families/caregivers/parents whose children are system-impacted. The training services are designed to provide political education, tools for daily application, and convening everyone in our resource hub, which coordinates referrals and feedback, to ensure continuity and assessment of services provided by the system. A major goal of HJTRL is to fill the gap between vision and mission alignment among activists focused on dismantling the oppressive system; service providers relying on the system for their livelihoods; community members eager for better, community-based alternatives for safety and accountability; and, most importantly, system-impacted people deserving of better from all of us. Through HJLTP, we provided over 35 trainings and workshops for credible messenger organizers, Bed-Stuy residents and youth, system stakeholders from Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice and the Kings County District Attorney's office. Our hallmark project is Communiversity which we launched in late 2021. Communiversity is our engine for educational, emotional and political edquity by locating and generating educational resources, assets (people), and opportunities within our neighborhoods and holding courses that are often only offered through higher education institutions.

    Expenses $351,288

  • The Organization is the fiscal sponsor of the Peoples Bail Out NYC. Peoples Bail Out NYC organizes community bail outs from New York City jails. Each bail out is a radical, collective act of community defense against pretrial jailing on Rikers and the Boat, in Horizons and Crossroads.

    Expenses $215,628 · Revenue $4,127

  • The Village Apprenticeship Program (VAP) - is decolonizing workforce development and preparing workers, employers, and communities for a post-COVID world. VAP is building a community care workforce. VAP is a revolutionary training and apprenticeship program that provides workers and employers with the knowledge and skills and resources needed to build a cooperative, equitable, and vibrant village. Through VAP, we matched 10 cohort participants with mostly local and black-owned businesses. We also provided seed investment of ten thousand dollars to three black owned businesses from Brooklyn. 80% of our participants found employment that they are pursuing now as part time and full time employees, a year later. More importantly, we created a village community of people, ideas and innovations that are exploring, experimenting and actualizing what cooperative economics feels and looks like.

    Expenses $105,128

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.

  • Kyung-Ji Rhee

    CO-EXEC Dir.

    Total calculated
    $105,000
    From this org
    $105,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    41

  • CHINO HARDIN

    CO-EXEC Dir.

    Total calculated
    $105,000
    From this org
    $105,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    41

  • Joseph Coello

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rakhii Holman

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Natalia Kennedy

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Maryam khaja

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Eun Joung Lee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Javier Lopez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gus Newport

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bina Ahmed

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $2,029,319
    Expenses
    $2,142,659
    Contributions
    $1,448,967
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,914,262
    Expenses
    $2,528,790
    Contributions
    $2,202,396
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,076,762
    Expenses
    $2,407,472
    Contributions
    $2,364,896
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,885,611
    Expenses
    $1,955,720
    Contributions
    $1,284,938
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,885,610
    Expenses
    $1,955,723
    Contributions
    $1,284,938
    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
    $1,705,409
    Expenses
    $1,685,765
    Assets (EOY)
    $635,064

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,945,408
    Expenses
    $1,685,764
    Assets (EOY)
    $775,063

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,290,757
    Expenses
    $1,344,998
    Assets (EOY)
    $439,759

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $942,437
    Expenses
    $923,685
    Assets (EOY)
    $306,813

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $862,254
    Expenses
    $848,479
    Assets (EOY)
    $797,016

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $884,882
    Expenses
    $804,597
    Assets (EOY)
    $279,854

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $839,776
    Expenses
    $904,187
    Assets (EOY)
    $507,320

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $669,355
    Expenses
    $855,293
    Assets (EOY)
    $233,152

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $429,764
    Expenses
    $324,221
    Assets (EOY)
    $106,099

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $340,983
    Expenses
    $342,431
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,009

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

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2019, reinstated 15 May 2019.

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