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FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT

EIN 83-1241315 PORTLAND, OR

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Revenue 2025
$455,123
Expenses 2025
$554,783

Program services were 97.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80
Classification
1200
Street
333 SW TAYLOR ST SUITE 403

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 · 2025

Mission

TO PREVENT AND CORRECT WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS.

  • THE FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT HELPS ATTORNEYS IN OREGON TO UNDERSTAND AND CHALLENGE FAULTY OR MISLEADING FORENSIC EVIDENCE, OR DEVELOPE HELPFUL FORENSIC EVIDENCE, IN CRIMINAL CASES. DURING 2025, WE PROVIDED DIRECT REPRESENTATION, CASE SUPPORT, OR REFERRALS IN OVER 72 CASES IN OREGON. WE ALSO CONTINUED OUR WORK ON A LONG-TERM PROJECT WORKING WITH ACADEMIC PARTNERS TO RESEARCH THE SCIENTIFIC VALIDITY OF SPECIFIC FORENSIC METHODS THAT HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO RESULT IN WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS.

    Expenses $408,320 · Grants $42,700 · Revenue $450,644

  • THE FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT WORKS TO IMPROVE OREGON LAW THROUGH STRATEGIC LITIGATION IN SELECT CASES INVOLVING FORENSICS.

    Expenses $76,778

  • THE FORENSIC JUSTICE PROJECT WORKS TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN OTHER LAWYERS TO ADDRESS FORENSICS IN CRIMINAL CASES AND TO EDUCATE THE COURTS ON ISSUES THAT RELATE TO FORENSICS. DURING 2025, WE TAUGHT AT LEAST 9 SEMINAR CLASSES.

    Expenses $56,764

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Janis Puracal

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $140,500
    From this org
    $140,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • Ben Hacker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tiffany Harris

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $455,123
    Expenses
    $554,783
    Contributions
    $4,479
    Grants paid
    $42,700
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $836,459
    Expenses
    $810,894
    Contributions
    $246,417
    Grants paid
    $65,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $713,361
    Expenses
    $516,593
    Contributions
    $154,715
    Grants paid
    $305
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $426,248
    Expenses
    $350,049
    Contributions
    $8,744
    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
    $323,773
    Expenses
    $298,210
    Assets (EOY)
    $104,508

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $350,853
    Expenses
    $281,914
    Assets (EOY)
    $79,548

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $56,576
    Expenses
    $55,670
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,349

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
Janis Puracal
Mailing address
333 SW Taylor St Suite 403Portland OR 97204
Website
www.forensicjusticeproject.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 11 November 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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.