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GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC

EIN 58-1917659 ATLANTA, GA

Revenue 2024
$5,402,376
Expenses 2024
$4,524,702

Program services were 71.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I50Z
Classification
1000
Street
438 EDGEWOOD AVE SE

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

GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT (GJP) STRENGTHENS OUR COMMUNITY BY DEMONSTRATING A BETTER WAY TO REPRESENT AND SUPPORT INDIVIDUALS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND REDUCE BARRIERS TO REENTRY. GJP PROMOTES INNOVATIVE CHANGE THROUGH DIRECT LEGAL REPRESENTATION, POLICY ADVOCACY, EDUCATION AND COALITION BUILDING.

  • Georgia Justice Projects legal services and social service support deliver positive outcomes for the justice involved community. Due to our holistic combination of social service support, counseling, and legal representation, less than 5% of our clients serve additional incarceration time. Instead, they are connected to necessary services, including drug treatment, mental health support, and housing. This combination of services has been rated by the National Institute of Justice Crime Solutions as effective in reducing recidivism. Through our record clearing work, we measure our ability to remove barriers to employment, housing, and education due to an irrelevant criminal record. Last year, over 95% of our court-based petitions for record clearing were successful and the Pardon Clinic had a 90% success rate helping rehabilitated clients obtain a pardon. Studies have confirmed that wages increase by an average of 22% within one year of expungement. Through our advocacy work, GJP also moves the needle on systemic policy initiatives that increase the availability of legal remedies for Georgia's justice involved community. Recent wins include SB 288 (2021) expanded access to record clearing, SB 105 (2022) enabled rehabilitated individuals to terminate their probation early, SB 10 (2023) & HB 926 (2024) decreased automatic driver's license suspensions for minor offenses, like missing court, and increased access to reinstatement. In 2025, we also partnered with the Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence (GCADV) to draft and support HB 582 which creates paths for mitigation and re-sentencing for survivors of domestic violence.

    Expenses $3,220,336 · Revenue $719,672

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.

  • DOUGLAS B AMMAR

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $218,110
    From this org
    $187,208
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,902
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $171,708
    Bonus
    $15,500
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $5,616
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,286
    Filer's total
    $218,110

  • BRENDA J SMEETON

    LEGAL DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $141,741
    From this org
    $136,707
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,034
    Hours/week
    40

  • RACHEL HOLMES

    MANAGING ATTORNEY

    Total calculated
    $126,346
    From this org
    $113,855
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,491
    Hours/week
    40

  • ERMIS ZAYAS

    DEV DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $121,234
    From this org
    $108,907
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,327
    Hours/week
    40

  • WADE ASKEW

    POLICY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $116,427
    From this org
    $102,433
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,994
    Hours/week
    40

  • PAIGE JANN

    MANAGING ATTORNEY

    Total calculated
    $112,300
    From this org
    $98,433
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,867
    Hours/week
    40

  • LAUREN WASHINGTON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • DERIN B DICKERSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JOHN H RAINS IV

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CHARLIE BINGHAM

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • MEG TAYLOR

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • SCOTT CASEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • MICHELE YOUNG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • DOUG JENKINS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • VON A DUBOSE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ALEXANDER RUDER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • STEPHEN D COUNCILL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • ANNE BLITCH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JOSEPH LEE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • SUZANNE HOYES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • LAWRENCE SLOVENSKY

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JAKATHRYN ROSS

    PAST BOARD CHAI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • MICHAEL CANARAS

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • ASUMA SURANI

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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
    $5,402,376
    Expenses
    $4,524,702
    Contributions
    $4,588,670
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,275,147
    Expenses
    $4,274,400
    Contributions
    $3,374,561
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,195,259
    Expenses
    $4,007,479
    Contributions
    $2,989,503
    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
    $2,775,236
    Expenses
    $2,957,427
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,977,126

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,683,875
    Expenses
    $2,481,042
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,780,900

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.