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EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY

EIN 20-0490698 OAKLAND, CA

Revenue 2024
$2,727,995
Expenses 2024
$1,757,616

Program services were 75.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R20
Classification
1200
Street
1901 HARRISON STREET

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

The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment. Our three-pronged advocacy approach combines litigation and other legal advocacy, outreach and coalition building, and education through eJective messaging and communication strategies. EJSs overarching strategy is to broaden anti-discrimination policy, practice, and jurisprudence to include strategies that combat unconscious and structural bias and to promote policies that eliminate disparate outcomes for our system-impacted community partners.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation's consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts.

  • Law and Policy: EJS is proactively strengthening the legal infrastructure by anticipating challenges and coordinating with civil rights partners to defend, protect, and expand hard fought rights and gains. Our law and policy work centers harm repair. In our education equity efforts, we are reforming discriminatory school discipline practices in California.

    Expenses $1,023,293 · Revenue $32,000

  • Communications Strategy: We aim to serve as a national thought leader in shaping public understanding and support for harm repair as essential to racial equity and building an inclusive, multiracial democracy.

    Expenses $307,376

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.

  • Lisa Holder

    President

    Total calculated
    $272,069
    From this org
    $229,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,469
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $229,600
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $11,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $31,469
    Filer's total
    $272,069

  • Mona Tawatao

    Legal Director

    Total calculated
    $177,306
    From this org
    $149,796
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,510
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $149,796
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $7,428
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,082
    Filer's total
    $177,306

  • Anna Basallaje

    COO

    Total calculated
    $150,247
    From this org
    $141,623
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,624
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,623
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $7,002
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,622
    Filer's total
    $150,247

  • Keith Kamisugi

    Comms Director

    Total calculated
    $132,571
    From this org
    $111,678
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,893
    Hours/week
    35

  • Fernando Gaytan

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • John Bonifaz

    Secretary/Treas

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Pamela Perkins Dwyer

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Michael Harris

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kelly M Dermody

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Raymond Marshall

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Donald K Tamaki

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sheila Warren

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $2,727,995
    Expenses
    $1,757,616
    Contributions
    $2,663,104
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,837,356
    Expenses
    $1,482,989
    Contributions
    $2,401,680
    Grants paid
    $3,342
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,506,018
    Expenses
    $1,709,545
    Contributions
    $1,516,424
    Grants paid
    $1,800

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
    $1,161,966
    Expenses
    $1,407,276
    Assets (EOY)
    $843,448

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,165,977
    Expenses
    $1,547,261
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,070,272

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,352,153
    Expenses
    $1,353,423
    Assets (EOY)
    $402,982

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $747,986
    Expenses
    $1,203,786
    Assets (EOY)
    $421,936

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $909,356
    Expenses
    $1,103,149
    Assets (EOY)
    $865,823

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,855,957
    Expenses
    $1,051,602
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,066,051

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,018,655
    Expenses
    $936,021
    Assets (EOY)
    $456,847

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.