JUSTICE DEFENDERS

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

Q33

Classification

1000

Street

2093 PHILADELPHIA PIKE

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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

• HAPPY MEDICINE INC

  EIN 86-3374887

• SPECULATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INC

  EIN 87-2825132

• ZEARN

  EIN 37-1665745

Mission and programs · 2024

• IN MANY COUNTRIES, SUSPECTS ARE DETAINED IN PRISON ALMOST AUTOMATICALLY ONCE THEY ARE ARRESTED. WHATEVER THE OFFENSE. SOME, YES, ARE GUILTY. MANY ARE POOR, VULNERABLE, AND UNJUSTLY TARGETED. REGARDLESS, LIVES ARE LOST WAITING FOR JUSTICE TO ARRIVE. OUR WORK HELPS THE HUMANS WITHIN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM FLOURISH. AND THIS INCREASED CAPACITY PROMOTES MORE EQUITABLE, JUST, AND PEACEFUL SOCIETIES, IN KEEPING WITH THE UN'S 2030 SDG 16. SINCE OUR FUNDING, 100,000+ INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN SERVED VIA LEGAL DEFENSE; 600+ PARALEGALS HAVE BEEN TRAINED IN PRISON, 59 OF WHICH GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF NELSON MANDELA; AND 37,000+ INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN RELEASED. IN 2024 ALONE, 45+ PARALEGALS WERE TRAINED, 30,000+ INDIVIDUALS WERE SERVICED VIA FREE LEGAL DEFENSE, AND 15,000+ INDIVIDUALS WERE RELEASED AND RETURNED TO THEIR FAMILIES. WE DREAM OF A DAY WHERE NO ONE IS PUNISHED OR IMPRISONED - AND CERTAINLY NOT CANED OR EXECUTED - WITHOUT TELLING THEIR SIDE OF THE STORY. OUR HOPE IS FOR A WORLD WHERE EACH OF US IS EQUALLY ACCOUNTABLE TO AND PROTECTED BY THE LAW. BECAUSE THERE CAN BE NO JUSTICE WITHOUT PEACE, AND THERE CAN BE NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE.

  Expenses $1,878,075

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.

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

  $1,331,729

  Expenses

  $3,023,876

  Contributions

  $1,244,146

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,868,837

  Expenses

  $4,168,934

  Contributions

  $1,744,406

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $6,333,817

  Expenses

  $1,592,264

  Contributions

  $6,332,683

  Grants paid

  $1,456,000

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

  $2,517,601

  Expenses

  $2,287,627

  Assets (EOY)

  $592,569

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $354,993

  Expenses

  $4,448

  Assets (EOY)

  $350,545

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

Alexander McLean

Mailing address

2093 Philadelphia PikeClaymont DE 19703

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 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

• NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $575,000

  2023 · JUSTICE

• JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

  $500,000

  2024 · IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $450,927

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

  $250,000

  2022 · IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $175,000

  2022 · INTERNATIONAL

• GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $150,000

  2023 · INTERNATIONAL

• JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

  $100,000

  2023 · IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $100,000

  2023 · EDUCATION

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $61,600

  2022 · HUMAN SERVICES

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $50,000

  2024 · INTERNATIONAL

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.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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