- Revenue 2025
- $4,271,764
- Expenses 2025
- $4,697,782
Program services were 78.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- I83
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 228 PARK AVE S PMB 90360
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 · 2025
Mission
SCALE JUSTICE BUILDS DIGITAL TOOLS AND PARTNERSHIPS THAT HELP MILLIONS OF PEOPLE NAVIGATE THE LAW, ACCESS JUSTICE, AND LIVE MORE SECURE LIVES. WE ACHIEVE OUR MISSION BY:- HELPING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS AND NAVIGATE OUR CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEM- SERVING AS A MISSION-DRIVEN PARTNER TO HELP ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS GROW THEIR REACH AND IMPACT- CHAMPIONING SYSTEMIC CHANGE TO BUILD A FUTURE WHERE THE POWER OF THE LAW BELONGS TO EVERYONE
Activities or mission (Part I)
WE ARE THE COUNTRY'S LEADING NONPROFIT ACCESS TO JUSTICE INNOVATOR WITH A 25-YEAR HISTORY OF IMPACT. WE WORK TO INCREASE ACCESS TO JUSTICE BY WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH COURTS, LEGAL AID, AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS TO BUILD DIGITAL TOOLS THAT INCREASE ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND EMPOWER PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND AND ADVOCATE FOR THEIR RIGHTS.
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CIVIL JUSTICE PROGRAM: OUR CIVIL JUSTICE PROGRAM INCUBATES, SCALES AND MANAGES INNOVATIVE ONLINE PROGRAMS AND PARTNERSHIPS THAT HELP PEOPLE NAVIGATE THE LEGAL SYSTEM AND MAKE THAT SYSTEM FAIRER FOR EVERYONE. CIVIL JUSTICE PROGRAM SERVICES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS INCLUDE: LAWHELP.ORG, OUR NETWORK OF STATEWIDE LEGAL INFORMATION PORTALS IN 15 STATES, HELPS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WITHOUT LAWYERS UNDERSTAND THEIR RIGHTS, MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS, AND CONNECT WITH FREE AND LOW-COST HELP IN THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITY. LAWHELPNY, THE LEADING CONSUMER LEGAL INFORMATION AND REFERRAL RESOURCE FOR LOW-INCOME NEW YORKERS, PROVIDES NEARLY HALF A MILLION NEW YORKERS A YEAR WITH PLAIN LANGUAGE LEGAL RIGHTS RESOURCES AND REFERRALS TO TRUSTED SERVICE PROVIDERS TO HELP PROTECT THEIR HOUSING, SAFETY, PUBLIC BENEFITS, FAMILIES AND MORE.LAWHELP INTERACTIVE (LHI), OUR SELF-HELP PLATFORM FOR CREATING LEGAL DOCUMENTS, HELPS MORE THAN A MILLION LOW-INCOME AND ECONOMICALLY VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS CREATE FREE AND ACCURATE COURT FORMS AND SELF-ADVOCACY LETTERS SIMPLY AND EASILY, AN ESSENTIAL STEP IN BEING ABLE TO EXERCISE, VOICE AND DEFEND THEIR RIGHTS.MULTIPLE PURPOSE BUILT DIGITAL TOOLS THAT INCREASE ACCESS TO JUTICE, INCLUDING: LEGAL RISK DETECTOR, OUR WEB-BASED LEGAL HEALTH "CHECK-UP" TOOL USED BY ELDERCARE PROFESSIONALS TO SCREEN THOUSANDS OF AT-RISK OLDER ADULTS FOR LEGAL NEEDS AND EASILY REFER THEM TO LEGAL SERVICES. CITIZENSHIP WORKS, A GUIDED INTERVIEW AND PROCESS NAVIGATION TOOL TO HELP PEOPLE APPLYING FOR LEGAL CITIZENSHIP. RECALMO, A WORKER EMPOWERMENT AND WAGE THEFT TOOL FOR NEW YORK STATE.
Expenses $3,695,338 · Grants $10,000 · Revenue $1,460,587
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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BETTY BALLI TORRES ESQ
BOARD CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
MICHAEL HERTZ ESQ
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
J NICHOLAS BAUGHAN
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LEEANN BLACK
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
FRANK AZZOPARDI ESQ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
JACK LONDEN ESQ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JACK NEWTON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KAREN S LEVY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MARK FRIEDMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SCOTT MOZARSKY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
THOMAS YANG
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ANNE CHANDLER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TRACEY CHENOWITH
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOE GREEN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR REBECCA SANDEFUR
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JACQUELINE SCHAFER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SCOTT RECHTSCHAFFEN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DAMIEN RIEHL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
PELIN SERPIN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TODD BASKIN
DIRECTOR (THRU 6/25)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
EDWARD WALTERS
DIRECTOR (THRU 11/25)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ZACH ZARNOW
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $102,038
- From this org
- $93,340
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $8,698
- Hours/week
- 35
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ELIZABETH KEITH
INTERIM ED / CHIEF PARTNERSHIP OFF
- Total calculated
- $176,791
- From this org
- $166,788
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $10,003
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $166,788
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $10,003
- Filer's total
- $176,791
-
RODRIGO CAMARENA
INTERIM ED / CHIEF INNOVATION OFFI
- Total calculated
- $194,331
- From this org
- $165,854
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $28,477
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $165,854
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $28,477
- Filer's total
- $194,331
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PAUL BENNETT
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
- Total calculated
- $156,575
- From this org
- $137,550
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $19,025
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $137,550
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $19,025
- Filer's total
- $156,575
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
-
2025
- Revenue
- $4,271,764
- Expenses
- $4,697,782
- Contributions
- $2,784,823
- Grants paid
- $10,000
-
2023
- Revenue
- $6,141,032
- Expenses
- $5,521,513
- Contributions
- $2,221,603
- Grants paid
- $20,000
-
2022
- Revenue
- $6,124,800
- Expenses
- $5,627,137
- Contributions
- $4,066,780
- Grants paid
- $95,000
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
- $5,542,782
- Expenses
- $5,527,003
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,007,753
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,932,960
- Expenses
- $5,620,248
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,196,736
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,782,318
- Expenses
- $5,694,758
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,608,606
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,949,871
- Expenses
- $5,772,633
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,419,673
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,270,024
- Expenses
- $5,648,603
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,393,936
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,975,583
- Expenses
- $5,450,579
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,139,817
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,636,363
- Expenses
- $4,829,908
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,217,317
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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$75,000
2022 LEGAL AND OUTREACH SERVICES TO SUPPORT RECLAMO! ("RECLAMO")- PBN'S DIGITAL TOOL TO COMBAT WAGE THEFT.
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$20,000
2022 TO PROVIDE LEGAL CONSULTATIONS FOR CITIZENSHIPWORKS USERS ENROLLED WITH THE VIRTUAL NYS ONA OPPORTUNITY CENTER.
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$20,000
2023 TO PROVIDE LEGAL CONSULTATIONS FOR CITIZENSHIPWORKS USERS ENROLLED WITH THE VIRTUAL NYS ONA OPPORTUNITY CENTER.
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$10,000
2025 ACTIVITY REPORTING
Grants received
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$500,000
2022 EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
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NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC
$225,000
2023 MOU
-
$150,000
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$150,000
2023 CITIZENSHIPWORKS
-
$100,400
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$85,000
2023 EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
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$77,278
2024 General Support
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2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$27,250
2022 HUMAN SERVICES
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.