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MAINE EQUAL JUSTICE PARTNERS INC

EIN 04-3346273 AUGUSTA, ME

Revenue 2024
$2,772,726
Expenses 2024
$3,873,554

Program services were 86.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80
Classification
1000
Street
126 SEWALL ST

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

Maine Equal Justice is a nonprofit legal aid and economic justice organization working to increase economic security, opportunity and equity for people in Maine.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Maine Equal Justice is a Nonprofit legal aid and economic justice organization working to increase economic security, opportunity, and equity for people in Maine.

  • Litigation & Other Advocacy: MEJ represents clients (individuals below 200% of the federal poverty level) before administrative agencies, the state legislature and state & federal courts primarily to ensure that they can meet basic needs, including food, housing, utilities, health care, and to protect and advance their rights as consumers. MEJ handled 912 individual cases in 2024, as well as 29 systemic cases and rulemakings affecting programs that serve over 345,000 people, and our 18 trainings reached 580 people. Individual and systemic cases focused on health care (primarily Medicaid related), food assistance and income supports, employment issues, housing and utility matters, consumer protections, and education or family issues.

    Expenses $229

  • Health Care: MEJ performs legal research, public policy analysis, and develops strategies to improve access to health care for people with low income at the state level. Specific state activities included providing education on the benefits of Medicaid and how to access health coverage as pandemic-era benefits end, and advocating to preserve and increase access to Medicaid to close gaps in health care coverage for people with low income.

  • Increasing Opportunity/Income Support: MEJ performs legal research and public policy analysis, and develops strategies to improve Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other anti-poverty programs that provide income support to low-income families. Activities include improving administrative processes, increasing access to economic support programs and providing support to qualifying households through our Build HOPE program and Next Step projects. MEJ is also a partner in the Peer Workforce Navigator pilot program.

    Expenses $502,836 · Grants $502,836

  • Expenses $2,850,712 · Grants $442,229

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.

  • Tina Nadeau

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Susan Kiralis

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ben Grant

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charlie Dingman

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lisa Black

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Sara Gideon

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Erica Schair-Cardona

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Belinda Kande

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Bruce King

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Margeaux Lavoie

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Shelice Rhule

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jennifer Richardson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Michael Tarpinian

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Lauren Wille

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Sam Heck

    Development and Finance Di

    Total calculated
    $12,391
    From this org
    $11,230
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,161
    Hours/week
    35

  • Robyn Merrill

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $125,848
    From this org
    $103,557
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,291
    Hours/week
    35

  • Matthew Scease

    Development and Finance Di

    Total calculated
    $112,865
    From this org
    $68,906
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,959
    Hours/week
    35

  • Frank D'Alessandro

    Legal Director

    Total calculated
    $108,130
    From this org
    $105,318
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,812
    Hours/week
    35

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
    $2,772,726
    Expenses
    $3,873,554
    Contributions
    $2,657,904
    Grants paid
    $945,065
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,714,077
    Expenses
    $3,745,709
    Contributions
    $2,580,805
    Grants paid
    $1,011,018
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,248,083
    Expenses
    $2,674,808
    Contributions
    $2,172,083
    Grants paid
    $68,745

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
    $5,353,557
    Expenses
    $1,697,068
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,223,338

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,936,820
    Expenses
    $1,468,813
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,346,049

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,287,232
    Expenses
    $1,306,522
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,806,334

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,318,298
    Expenses
    $1,350,322
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,714,443

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,925,944
    Expenses
    $1,501,615
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,884,298

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $799,383
    Expenses
    $861,277
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,366,741

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,745,518
    Expenses
    $855,494
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,405,933

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $844,054
    Expenses
    $886,045
    Assets (EOY)
    $544,379

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $833,148
    Expenses
    $861,107
    Assets (EOY)
    $595,685

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $978,077
    Assets (EOY)
    $635,036

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

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Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

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