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PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE

EIN 46-1307037 NEW ORLEANS, LA

Revenue 2023
$4,589,771
Expenses 2023
$2,894,092

Program services were 80.4% 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
1024 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE

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 · 2023

Mission

THE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE WORKS TO CREATE POSITIVE CHANGE FOR PEOPLE IN THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM AT THE INTERSECTION OF IMPACT LITIGATION, DIRECT SERVICES AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE IS A NON-PROFIT LAW OFFICE THAT WORKS TOWARDS EQUALITY AND CONSTITUTIONAL TREATMENT OF PEOPLE IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.

  • THE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE SEEKS TO REFORM LOUISIANA'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY. OUR PROJECTS FOCUS ON ENDING THE DEATH PENALTY, FIXING INHUMANE CONDITIONS OF CONFINEMENT, EXPOSING PROSECUTORIAL AND JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT, ELIMINATING POOR REPRESENTATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS, AND ENDING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.

    Expenses $2,327,827 · Revenue $68,940

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • SARA TOTONCHI

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • MICHAEL STONE

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • UNA DEAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • MARK CUNNINGHAM

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • CALVIN DUNCAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • ISLEY GOSTIN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • LAVERNE THOMPSON

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • MARQUEST MEEKS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • DIANE LUCAS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • MAYA CHAUDHURI

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • RITA RADOSTITZ

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • DIAMOND SAMANTHA KENNEDY

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $135,000
    From this org
    $135,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,589,771
    Expenses
    $2,894,092
    Contributions
    $4,355,273
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,690,441
    Expenses
    $3,244,378
    Contributions
    $3,425,448
    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
    $3,041,454
    Expenses
    $3,056,404
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,982,394

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,074,449
    Expenses
    $2,377,652
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,590,768

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,738,404
    Expenses
    $1,441,767
    Assets (EOY)
    $895,300

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,197,989
    Expenses
    $833,636
    Assets (EOY)
    $591,006

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $385,393
    Expenses
    $781,030
    Assets (EOY)
    $217,412

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $370,935
    Expenses
    $690,245
    Assets (EOY)
    $603,637

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,249,543
    Expenses
    $772,672
    Assets (EOY)
    $961,239

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $937,411
    Expenses
    $454,050
    Assets (EOY)
    $454,142

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $328,177
    Expenses
    $499,777
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,723

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.