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CENTER FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE

EIN 51-0153566 ALEXANDRIA, VA

Revenue 2024
$5,006,510
Expenses 2024
$3,531,756

Program services were 80.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
Street
1305 LESLIE AVE

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 MISSION OF THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE IS TO SERVE GOD, ADVANCE JUSTICE, AND TRANSFORM PUBLIC LIFE AS WE SEEK TO EQUIP CITIZENS, DEVELOP LEADERS, AND SHAPE POLICY.

  • THE FAIRNESS FUND WORKS TO SIMULTANEOULY UPHOLD RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND CIVIL RIGHTS PROTECTIONS IN STATE AND FEDERAL LAW.

    Expenses $1,690,607 · Grants $1,606,500

  • THE INSTITUTIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ALLIANCE PROMOTES GOVERNMENT POLICIES, PUBLIC ATTITUDES, AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEST PRACTICES THAT SAFEGUARD INSTITUTIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM SO THAT FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS CAN MAKE THEIR VITAL AND UNCOMMON CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMON GOOD.

    Expenses $311,229 · Revenue $500

  • FAMILY & CAREGIVING POLICY SEEKS TO HONOR THE GOD-GIVEN VOCATION OF FAMILIES BY PROMOTING POLICIES AND WORKPLACE PRACTICES THAT ENABLE CHILD WELL-BEING AND FAMILY FLOURISHING.

    Expenses $164,150

  • STUDENTS & EARLY CAREER PROGRAMS EDUCATE AND EQUIP STUDENTS AND EARLY CAREER PROFESSIONALS FOR UPHOLDING PUBLIC JUSTICE.

    Expenses $103,954

  • EQUIPPING MINISTRIES FELLOWSHIP IS CPJS CAPACITY- BUILDING INITIATIVE FOR HISPANIC-LED MINISTRY ORGANIZATIONS.

    Expenses $325,730 · Grants $27,200

  • THE FAITH-BASED POLICY & RESEARCH PROGRAM CONDUCTS RESEARCH AND EDUCATES THE PUBLIC AND OFFICIALS.

    Expenses $30,938

  • PREACHING REFORMED EDUCATES AND EQUIPS PASTORS.

    Expenses $156,977 · Revenue $13,350

  • OTHER PROGRAMS

    Expenses $74,672

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.

  • KELLY TIEN

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KATHY POINTER

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKALA JANSEN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MATT REIFFER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN BAAS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID KOYZIS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RUTH MELKONIAN-HOOVER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFF LIOU

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CLAIRE MCWILLIAMS-DOTY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DENISE STROTHERS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RYAN VERWYS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AMY VITALE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHANIE SUMMERS

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $173,237
    From this org
    $160,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,237
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,800
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,437
    Filer's total
    $173,237

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
    $5,006,510
    Expenses
    $3,531,756
    Contributions
    $4,792,817
    Grants paid
    $1,633,700
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,597,652
    Expenses
    $2,447,523
    Contributions
    $4,495,592
    Grants paid
    $843,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $990,418
    Expenses
    $2,296,116
    Contributions
    $947,264
    Grants paid
    $792,600

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
    $3,493,350
    Expenses
    $3,086,473
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,323,319

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,861,962
    Expenses
    $1,251,897
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,012,090

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $842,141
    Expenses
    $1,169,844
    Assets (EOY)
    $448,035

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $913,836
    Expenses
    $829,330
    Assets (EOY)
    $162,885

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.