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ESSIE JUSTICE GROUP

EIN 80-0956021 OAKLAND, CA

Revenue 2024
$5,979,912
Expenses 2024
$5,819,425

Program services were 72.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I43
Classification
1000
Street
318 HARRISON ST STE 200

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

Essie Justice Group Is building a loving and powerful community of women with incarcerated loved ones. It's mission is to end mass incarcerations harm to women and communities.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Essies mission is to harness the collective power of women with incarcerated loved ones to end mass incarcerations harm to women and communities. Our award-winning Healing to Advocacy Model brings women together to heal, build collective power, and drive social change.

  • In 2024, Essie Justice Group provided leadership development and healing justice programming for women with incarcerated loved ones in California and advocated for material improvements to women with incarcerated loved ones' lives. We facilitated three, nine-week Healing to Advocacy Program cohorts, graduating 31 new women with incarcerated loved ones from this program into our Essie Sisterhooda support network of 500 (and growing) system-impacted women with access to a monthly membership support group, free therapy, resource sharing, community building events, and ongoing opportunities for leadership development. To support women being able to attend our programming, we provided transportation support, childcare, and over 40 hot and healthy meals to women and their children in 2024. We trained 42 members via our Campaign School on how to make change in their communities and worked in partnership with a local advocacy coalition to support the creation and implementation of Care First pretrial services in Los Angeles County.

    Expenses $4,213,285

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.

  • Gina Clayton-Johnson

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $208,224
    From this org
    $208,224
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    43

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $208,224
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $208,224
  • Lily Mandlin

    Deputy Dir.

    Total calculated
    $182,806
    From this org
    $182,806
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    43

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $182,806
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $182,806
  • Kelly Phipps

    Dir. Communications & Partnerships

    Total calculated
    $163,523
    From this org
    $163,523
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    43

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $163,523
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $163,523
  • Tejal Kothari

    Dir. Membership Strategy & Impact

    Total calculated
    $160,587
    From this org
    $160,587
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    43

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,587
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $160,587
  • Le'Char Toki

    Leadership Dev.

    Total calculated
    $138,116
    From this org
    $138,116
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    43
  • Faraha Nia

    Comm. Organizer

    Total calculated
    $121,571
    From this org
    $121,571
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    43
  • Tanasia Newman

    Sr. Comm. Mgr

    Total calculated
    $120,092
    From this org
    $120,092
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    43
  • Emma Ayers

    Mgr of Partnership

    Total calculated
    $109,364
    From this org
    $109,364
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    43
  • Wynter Daggs

    Snr. Mgr. Programs

    Total calculated
    $102,371
    From this org
    $102,371
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    43
  • Kirsten Levingston

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Tejinder Singh

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jamira Burley

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Makis Antzoulatos

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Charlene A Carruthers

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Vanessa Garrison

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Arisha Hatch

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Crystal Hayling

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Michelle Alexander

    Board Member

    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. 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,979,912
    Expenses
    $5,819,425
    Contributions
    $5,652,013
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,226,367
    Expenses
    $6,186,634
    Contributions
    $3,177,631
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $9,919,473
    Expenses
    $5,591,638
    Contributions
    $9,862,341
    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
    $6,890,137
    Expenses
    $3,670,496
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,176,723
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,805,603
    Expenses
    $2,318,684
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,737,211
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,270,139
    Expenses
    $1,775,513
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,076,319
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,919,079
    Expenses
    $1,713,788
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,968,853
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,127,320
    Expenses
    $1,104,312
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,257,498
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,176,312
    Expenses
    $524,143
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,216,355
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,176,312
    Expenses
    $524,143
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,216,355

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 2015

Tax period
1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
Principal officer
Gina Clayton
Mailing address
300 Frank H Ogawa Plaza Suite 420Oakland CA 94612
Website
www.essiejusticegroup.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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 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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.