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ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE & EDUCATION INC

EIN 52-1989809 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2024
$1,146,619
Expenses 2024
$1,355,645

Program services were 72.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Z99
Classification
1200
Street
1200 G ST NW STE 650

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

Advocates for Justice and Education seeks to empower families, youth, and the community to be effective advocates to ensure that children and youth, particularly those who have special needs, receive access to appropriate education and health services.

  • The Parent Training and Information (PTI) Center is a comprehensive resource and training center that offers parents information on the laws of special education, specific disabilities, the latest research on treatment and interventions, and adaptive technology. The PTI also provides families of children and youth with disabilities with one-on-one assistance, resources, training, advanced leadership training for parents to advocate for systems change, a supportive network through peer-to-peer support for families, and trains other professionals who support families.

    Expenses $986,977

  • AJE provides legal services to families in the area of special education, school discipline and school access issues. Legal services are provided in the form of advice and counsel, brief services and extended representation. AJE provided legal services to individuals involving education matters. Specifically, AJE provided advice and counsel, brief services or extended representation to ndividuals in school discipline/exclusion and education access matters and trained parents on legal rights involving school discipline and special education related topics.

  • The Family-to-Family program through the D.C. Health Information Center (DC HIC) provides support, information, resources, and training to families of children and youth with special health care needs and the professionals that serve them. The program provides families with leadership development to be more effective advocates at all levels and to be able to provide informational and emotional support to other families of children with special health care needs.

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Rochanda Hiligh Thomas

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $125,651
    From this org
    $115,590
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,061
    Hours/week
    40
  • Dr Tracey Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Nike Opadiran

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dr Tanna Jackson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Molly Whalen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jane Brown

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Toreico ONeal

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Saba Bireda

    Secretary

    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
    $1,146,619
    Expenses
    $1,355,645
    Contributions
    $1,116,481
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,160,119
    Expenses
    $1,121,674
    Contributions
    $1,062,066
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $713,464
    Expenses
    $1,276,988
    Contributions
    $694,016
    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
    $1,436,597
    Expenses
    $1,023,091
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,042,220
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,133,366
    Expenses
    $821,286
    Assets (EOY)
    $608,293
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $854,510
    Expenses
    $672,385
    Assets (EOY)
    $398,606
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $564,929
    Expenses
    $528,015
    Assets (EOY)
    $169,399
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $505,550
    Expenses
    $468,075
    Assets (EOY)
    $80,619
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $503,352
    Expenses
    $541,511
    Assets (EOY)
    $76,312
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $540,699
    Expenses
    $895,043
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,449
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,692,015
    Expenses
    $1,436,877
    Assets (EOY)
    $465,619
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,544,963
    Expenses
    $1,562,948
    Assets (EOY)
    $321,689

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

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