EDUCATION LAW CENTER - PA

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B53Z

Classification

1000

Street

1800 JFK BOULEVARD SUITE 1900A

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

• The Education Law Center-PA's (ELC-PA) mission is to ensure access to a quality public education for all children in Pennsylvania. Over the past 50 years, ELC-PA has been a known resource for parents, child-serving professionals, and advocates in Pennsylvania. Our principal strategies include direct representation, impact litigation, policy advocacy, community engagement, and strategic communications. With offices in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, we work statewide to provide immediate relief to individual students while also advancing systems-level reforms that benefit thousands of underserved students, guided by our three priority areas: 1) Ensuring Equal Access to Quality Public Schools: ELC-PA addresses real-time educational barriers and systemic concerns impacting the educational experiences of underserved student populations. Our focus is improving education access for children living in poverty, children with disabilities, children of color, children in the foster care and juvenile justice systems, children experiencing homelessness, multilingual learners, LGBTQ+ youth, and children at the intersection of multiple underserved identities. Our Helpline is the only free legal service solely focused on helping students access a quality public education in Pennsylvania, providing information, advice, referrals, legal consultation, and direct representation. We also produce publications and conduct trainings to help parents, caregivers, and child-serving professionals advocate on behalf of the children in their care. 2) Advocating for Fair Education Funding: ELC-PA works with statewide and local partners to push for the changes needed to address Pennsylvania's school funding crisis. We filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth over a decade ago for failure to fund public education under the state constitution. We won this case in a decisive 2023 victory in Commonwealth Court, in an order and opinion finding education is a fundamental right and deeming the state's current funding system unconstitutional and discriminatory. Now, we are focused on the remedy. Our litigation is complemented by policy advocacy, including budget advocacy through the PA Schools Work (PASW) coalition, as well as educating policymakers on the state's education funding system, our lawsuit, and the necessary funding increases to ensure the state is adequately and equitably funding public education. 3) Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: ELC-PA aims to end school pushout by eliminating exclusionary discipline policies that disproportionately harm Black and Brown youth, students with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ and gender-expansive youth, with a focus on advancing the rights of Black girls. In addition to confronting discriminatory policies, we advocate for schools to adopt research-based interventions that will improve school climates and build inclusive, antiracist, and affirming schools. In the juvenile justice system, we aim to ensure that children can access the full range of public education programs, in part by advocating for the structures necessary to improve oversight of education in residential facilities. We also provide individual representation when students are excluded from the classroom without due process. OUR IMPACT We have seen monumental wins for students across Pennsylvania as a result of ELC-PA's 50 years of advocacy. Recent wins include: Secured a second year of historic new investments in Pennsylvania's most underfunded schools, bringing us closer to an equitable and constitutionally compliant school funding system mandated by the landmark decision in our Commonwealth Court case. Pushed back on federal efforts to undermine public education, including efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, deprive public schools of essential funding that supports our most underserved students, and drastically reduce federal enforcement of anti-discrimination laws. ELC-PA partners with organizations across the country to fight back through advocacy, federal comments, and amicus briefs, while providing critical Pennsylvania-specific context and demonstrating the real impact these federal threats have on local students and schools. Educated communities and school officials statewide on the rights of immigrant students in our public schools and provided model policies and protocols to ensure continued access to safe learning environments. Advocated for the passage of Pennsylvania's CROWN Act, helping secure new statutory protections that protect public school students against racial hair discrimination based on hair type, hair texture, or protective hairstyles like braids, twists, knows and locs. Public school students are specifically protected by this law. Released a report, along with Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children, that analyzed statewide data and identified education barriers impacting children and youth in foster care based on ELC-PA's representation. The report relies on statewide data not previously disclosed and breaks new ground by detailing the educational outcomes and glaring inequities for students in care. Assisted children experiencing homelessness, in foster care, and in the juvenile justice system to receive the education they need and deserve. Represented more than 90 families to secure early intervention services for their young children with disabilities and advocated for new systemic policies to ensure effective transition from preschool to kindergarten. Supported parent advocacy in 38 school districts, countering harmful, extremist school board policies that exclude transgender students and create hostile school environments for Black, Brown, and LGBTQ+ students. Remedied special education deficiencies through state complaints that led to new policies expanding access to education for youth in detention centers in Philadelphia and Allegheny County. Through ELC-PA's Helpline, annually support more than 1,000 students and families - primarily those who are most marginalized by our education system at the intersection of race, gender, and disability.

  Expenses $1,952,527 · Revenue $345,720

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.

The first 25 listed. 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

  $4,114,959

  Expenses

  $2,662,744

  Contributions

  $3,477,529

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,534,729

  Expenses

  $2,587,607

  Contributions

  $3,834,190

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,857,604

  Expenses

  $2,437,863

  Contributions

  $2,375,137

  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

  $2,333,589

  Expenses

  $2,507,025

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,787,448

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,536,434

  Expenses

  $2,241,392

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,514,729

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,517,896

  Expenses

  $2,199,825

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,076,468

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

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $1,017,725

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $154,943

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE 30 DAY FUND INC

  $150,000

  2022 · PANDEMIC ASSISTANCE

• TIDES FOUNDATION

  $125,000

  2024 · QUALITY EDUCATION

• TIDES FOUNDATION

  $125,000

  2023 · QUALITY EDUCATION

• THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION

  $104,000

  2023 · ALLIANCE AND ADVOCACY

• PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION

  $98,500

  2023 · CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $80,250

  2024 · EDUCATION

• EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS

  $76,484

  2022 · FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT

• PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION

  $68,500

  2022 · ADVOCACY UNRESTRICTED

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

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