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LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDRENS RIGHTS

EIN 20-5961971 NEW ORLEANS, LA

Revenue 2024
$2,556,946
Expenses 2024
$3,589,637

Program services were 82.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I21
Classification
1000
Street
1100 MILTON ST STE B

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

USING DIRECT REPRESENTATION AND ADVOCACY, WE FIGHT TO KEEP CHILDREN OUT OF THE JUSTICE SYSTEM SO THAT THEY CAN THRIVE IN THEIR HOMES AND COMMUNITIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE CENTER IS A NONPROFIT LAW OFFICE SERVING AS THE JUVENILE PUBLIC DEFENDER IN NEW ORLEANS.

  • OUR PROGRAM FIGHTS FOR THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN SO THAT THEY MAY THRIVE IN THEIR OWN HOMES AND COMMUNITIES. WE ACHIEVE THIS BY PROVING JUVENILE DEFENSE AND JUVENILE LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE REPRESENTATION, AND ADVOCATING FOR CHANGES TO LOCAL AND STATEWIDE POLICIES. JUVENILE DEFENSE: AS THE JUVENILE PUBLIC DEFENDER IN NEW ORLEANS, WE REPRESENT OVER 90% OF CHILDREN IN THE CITY WHO COME INTO CONTACT WITH THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM. WE PROVIDE EACH CHILD WITH A HOLISTIC TEAM - A LAWYER, SOCIAL WORKER, INVESTIGATOR, AND YOUTH ADVOCATE - TO ADDRESS BOTH THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF AN ARREST.JUVENILE LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE: WE REPRESENT THE MAJORITY OF CHILDREN IN LOUISIANA WHO ARE FACING OR SERVING LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE SENTENCES, WHICH THE U.S. SUPREME COURT HAS RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL IN ALL BUT THE RAREST CASES. WE KNOW THAT CHILDREN CAN AND DO CHANGE FOR THE BETTER, SO WE FIGHT TO ENSURE THAT THEY MAY ONE DAY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR RELEASE.STATE AND LOCAL ADVOCACY: WE ADVOCATE FOR POLICIES THAT REDUCE THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AND PROVIDE BETTER ALTERNATIVES TO ARREST AND INCARCERATION. FOR THE KIDS WHO DO ENTER THE SYSTEM, WE SUPPORT POLICIES THAT KEEP THEM SAFE, PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS, AND GET THEM HOME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

    Expenses $2,970,896 · Revenue $821,452

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.

  • MARY OKOTH

    MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GREG BROWNE

    TREASURER, BOARD OF DIRECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRANDON ARMANT

    MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARSHA LEVICK

    MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AVA ROGERS

    CHAIR, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • IRVING WARSHAUER

    VICE CHAIR, BOARD OF DIREC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LOUIS GIBSON

    MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SARAH SCHIRMER

    MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JACK HARRISON

    MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ASANTE AMIN

    MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR REGINALD PARQUET

    MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MILES THOMAS

    MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KRISTEN ROME

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $151,047
    From this org
    $135,350
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,697
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $135,350
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,697
    Filer's total
    $151,047

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
    $2,556,946
    Expenses
    $3,589,637
    Contributions
    $1,631,102
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,865,977
    Expenses
    $3,538,116
    Contributions
    $2,612,717
    Grants paid
    $90,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,726,123
    Expenses
    $3,450,712
    Contributions
    $1,941,010
    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
    $3,444,355
    Expenses
    $3,167,075
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,987,996

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,651,886
    Expenses
    $3,147,220
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,696,358

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,238,161
    Expenses
    $3,097,404
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,340,000

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,197,467
    Expenses
    $2,532,340
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,163,186

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,466,817
    Expenses
    $2,138,096
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,510,189

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,460,680
    Expenses
    $2,164,240
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,150,993

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,906,743
    Expenses
    $2,129,079
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,898,530

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,923,651
    Expenses
    $1,933,612
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,078,572

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,547,360
    Expenses
    $1,233,207
    Assets (EOY)
    $804,382

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

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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.