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APPELLATE PROJECT INC

EIN 84-3852810 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2025
$625,821
Expenses 2025
$961,713

Program services were 72.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B80
Classification
1000
Street
2214 11TH ST NW APT 4

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

Our mission is to foster emerging leaders as they build a more just and representative appellate field.

  • Too often, appellate courts make high-stakes decisions with little connection to the communities most affected. Were changing that. By fostering emerging appellate leaders, were ensuring our courts better reflect the people, values, and realities of our time. In 2025, The Appellate Project equipped emerging leaders with the skills, networks, and community they need to thrive. TAP strengthened partnerships with law firms, bar associations, and judicial institutions. Key collaborations to help advance future leaders included conversations with judges and clerks in the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, the U.S. Supreme Court for the Seventh Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. TAP also fostered community and mobilized collective power through alumni gatherings and networking events, and partnered with organizations including the Asian American Bar Association and Black Women in Law. We completed our first formal strategic planning process, engaging hundreds of community members. As recommended by that process, we laid the groundwork for future initiatives by strengthening TAPs governance infrastructure, growing the Board of Directors, hiring a COO and refreshing our brand and redesigning our website to better reflect our programs and impact to better communicate how we contribute to our vision of an appellate system where the advocates, judges, and rulings from our highest courts reflect the communities they most impact. When appellate courts reflect the perspectives and lived experiences of the full public, the outcomes will be more just, the reasoning more rigorous, and the legal system more credible.

    Expenses $692,392

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.

  • Juvaria Khan

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $214,839
    From this org
    $214,839
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $214,839
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $214,839

  • Angela Franchino

    COO

    Total calculated
    $64,474
    From this org
    $64,474
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ian Courts

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Briaunna Buckner Durhal

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • King Adjel-Frimpong

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Watford

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Justin Lam

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Afshan Paarlberg

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Yiyang Wu

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $625,821
    Expenses
    $961,713
    Contributions
    $624,630
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $735,035
    Expenses
    $785,697
    Contributions
    $726,115
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $833,434
    Expenses
    $554,419
    Contributions
    $833,414
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $687,079
    Expenses
    $389,933
    Contributions
    $686,629
    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
    $651,030
    Expenses
    $206,932
    Assets (EOY)
    $654,410

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $256,427
    Expenses
    $56,208
    Assets (EOY)
    $212,373

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 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Juvaria Khan
Mailing address
2214 11th St NWWashington DC 20001
Website
www.theappellateproject.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

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

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.