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AMISTAD LAW PROJECT

EIN 47-2112376 PHILADELPHIA, PA

Revenue 2024
$1,034,547
Expenses 2024
$1,012,594

Program services were 87.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I83
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 9148

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

AMISTAD LAW PROJECT'S MISSION IS TO FIGHT FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING FREE AND LOW-COST LEGAL SERVICES TO PHILADELPHIANS AND THOSE INCARCERATED IN PENNSYLVANIA'S PRISONS. ADDITIONALLY, WE ADVOCATE FOR LAWS AND POLICIES THAT REFLECT OUR VISION FOR A NEW JUSTICE PARADIGM AND ORGANIZE EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON THEIR RIGHTS AND THE LAW.

  • 1)CAMPAIGN TO END DEATH BY INCARCERATION: THIS PROGRAM AIMS TO FIND AVENUES FOR PEOPLE SENTENCED TO LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE IN PENNSYLVANIA TO RETURN TO THEIR COMMUNITIES. THROUGH THIS PROGRAM, WE EDUCATED THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE PA BOARD OF PARDONS, HELD PUBLIC OFFICIALS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ROLE IN LIFE AND LONG-TERM SENTENCES, PROVIDED TECHNICAL AND SUPPORTIVE ASSISTANCE TO INCARCERATED PEOPLE AND THE FAMILIES IN APPLYING FOR CLEMENCY, AND FILED LAWSUITS ON BEHALF OF LIFE-SENTENCED INDIVIDUALS TO FIND A PATHWAY HOME. 2)SHIFTING THE NARRATIVE AROUND CRIME AND POLICING: THIS PROGRAM AIMS TO SHIFT THE POPULAR NARRATIVE AROUND CRIME AND VIOLENCE IN PHILADELPHIA AND QUESTION THE ROLE OF POLICING AS A RESPONSE TO VIOLENCE IN OUR COMMUNITIES. THROUGH THIS PROGRAM, WE CREATED VISUAL AND AUDIO MEDIA TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON ALTERNATIVE RESPONSES TO HARM, HELPED SHAPE CONCRETE POLICY DEMANDS TO THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA IN RESPONSE TO THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD AND THE SUBSEQUENT UPRISINGS, CONDUCTED RESEARCH OF PHILADELPHIANS' IDEA OF PUBLIC SAFETY, AND DEVELOPED PROPOSALS FOR ALTERNATIVE RESPONSES.

    Expenses $885,270

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.

  • KRIS HENDERSON

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $67,679
    From this org
    $56,082
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,597
    Hours/week
    40

  • CHRISTI CLARK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PARDISS KEBRIAEI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHANIE KEENE

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CANDACE MCKINLEY

    SECRETARY/TR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARTHA WILLIAMS

    DIRECTOR

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,034,547
    Expenses
    $1,012,594
    Contributions
    $1,034,518
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $996,904
    Expenses
    $1,062,726
    Contributions
    $996,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $889,859
    Expenses
    $879,695
    Contributions
    $879,829
    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
    $681,022
    Expenses
    $564,225
    Assets (EOY)
    $658,945

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $647,246
    Expenses
    $305,348
    Assets (EOY)
    $470,985

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.

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.