Human rights
Equal Justice Initiative
Legal advocacy and education concerning racial and criminal justice.
EIN 63-1135091 · Reporting period Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2025
Financial data retrieved Oct 14, 2026 · Automated source check Oct 17, 2026
How to read this scorecard →Spending & reporting score
The score combines reported program spending, the financial documents reviewed, and the age of those records.
Not an impact rating. This is not a percentage of your gift.
What makes up the score? ↓How the money was spent
For every $100 spent:
- Legal help & racial-justice educationIncludes the staff and supplies for this work.
- About $9595.4% of expenses
- Raising fundsAsking for and collecting support.
- About $10.5% of expenses
- Running the organizationManagement and everyday administration.
- About $44.0% of expenses
Reported expense allocation for FY 2025. Total: $52,081,236. Rounded amounts may not add to $100.
See the numbers in the source (opens a new tab)What the figures show
About $95 out of every $100 spent went toward legal help and racial-justice education.
This includes the cost of staff, supplies and other resources used for that work. It is not all money handed to people.
Spending figures describe accounting allocations. They do not measure a program’s quality or results.
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Sources and financial context
What the spending picture leaves out
Entity-level Form 990 expenses. Donated assets, shared fundraising activities and grants can affect ratios. A cash-only ratio is not established.
Spending ratios alone do not establish effectiveness or waste. Outcome evidence has not been assessed. Financial figures alone cannot show the quality or results of this work.
Program share uses Part IX line 25, column B divided by column A. The filing scope can differ from a consolidated audit or affiliated charity network.
Noncash valuation and joint-cost treatment have not been separately reviewed for this profile.
The filing describes activity and spending; Charity Clarity has not reviewed evidence of outcomes caused per donation.
Grants and assistance to domestic individuals: $6,610,740
Part IX line 2. This is an identifiable assistance line; it excludes grants to organizations and other service costs. It does not measure outcomes.
How the score works, in plain language
The score combines three financial and reporting measures. It describes the records reviewed, not the effectiveness of a charity’s programs.
- Spending on the cause60% of the score
- 57.3 of 60 points
- Source records25% of the score
- 12.5 of 25 points
- Age of records15% of the score
- 15.0 of 15 points
Our assessment of reported spending and source records. Not an audit or a guarantee of impact.
An independent audit was not reviewed for this snapshot. That does not mean the charity lacks one. Expense figures were extracted by code and checked for matching totals.
Methodology financial-balanced-1.0. Age measured at Oct 17, 2026.
Full calculation and limitations →Sources, scope and reporting dates
Form 990 filing entity: Equal Justice Initiative; not assumed to consolidate all affiliates
IRS Form 990, fiscal year ended 2025-09-30. Part IX, line 25, columns A through D. IRS e-file data rendered by ProPublica.
Source snapshot retrieved Oct 14, 2026. Figures, EIN and period end matched against the source by code on Oct 17, 2026. This is not a human audit.
See the numbers in the source (opens a new tab)Official website source recorded Oct 14, 2026. Visit source website (opens a new tab)