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GIDEONS PROMISE INC

EIN 26-1947437 ATLANTA, GA

Revenue 2024
$2,100,239
Expenses 2024
$1,684,135

Program services were 79.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
245 PEACHTREE CENTER AVENUE 1900

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

Our mission is to transform the criminal justice system by building a movement of public defenders who provide equal justice for marginalized communities

  • Gideons Promise strengthens the nations public defense system by training, supporting, and sustaining student law clerks, new public defenders, chief defenders, and other indigent defense providers. Our mission is to transform the criminal justice system by building a movement of public defenders who provide equal justice for marginalized communities.In 2024, Gideons Promise equipped 618 public defenders and office chiefs with the skills, mentorship, and community support needed to deliver high-quality legal representation. Through our trademarked CORE 101 model and tailored regional programs, our work reached Georgia, Michigan, New York (Leaders Program), Tennessee, and Texas, where we delivered statewide comprehensive programming. This work is sustained by a growing network of supporters. Eighty-two volunteers and six interns contributed more than 1,880 hours of service in 2024. These contributions strengthen public defense offices across the nation, protecting the constitutional rights of thousands of individuals who would otherwise face the criminal legal system without adequate representation.

    Expenses $1,334,662 · Revenue $909,583

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.

  • ZANELE NGUBENI

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $142,980
    From this org
    $121,837
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,143
    Hours/week
    40

  • JONATHAN RAPPING

    FOUNDER

    Total calculated
    $1,034
    From this org
    $1,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34
    Hours/week
    1

  • SERENA NUNN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MINA MALIK

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VIRGINIA SLOAN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAKATHRYN ROSS

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NAVEEN RAMACHANDRAPPA

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ILHAM ASKIA

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDREW WISE

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • C DAWN DEANER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEJO RODRIGUEZ JR

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JON M TALOTTA

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID E PATTON

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL SONG

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JUSTIN ANDERSON

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARC JOHNSON

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SAM STARKS

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK ROCHON

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CLINTON BROWNING

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,100,239
    Expenses
    $1,684,135
    Contributions
    $1,066,569
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,459,223
    Expenses
    $1,810,754
    Contributions
    $1,308,889
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,138,778
    Expenses
    $2,755,422
    Contributions
    $1,100,214
    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
    $4,028,887
    Expenses
    $1,831,022
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,718,684

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,956,716
    Expenses
    $1,323,414
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,409,424

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,135,452
    Expenses
    $1,176,800
    Assets (EOY)
    $733,548

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $988,005
    Expenses
    $1,209,156
    Assets (EOY)
    $698,486

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,281,386
    Expenses
    $1,141,507
    Assets (EOY)
    $798,387

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $732,638
    Expenses
    $822,083
    Assets (EOY)
    $717,660

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.