Wisconsin · Nonprofit
ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC
ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,072,207 to it, the largest being THE ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT FUND FOR STRATEGIC INNOVATION ($1,100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $733k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $689k
What Economic Justice Institute Inc does
Mission
The economic justice institute is home to uw law school's five civil, anti-poverty clinical programs. Our mission is to provide students with a significant learning experience in which they develop into skilled legal professionals and engaged public citizens.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Lift wisconsin (formerly lift dane) is a joint venture with legal action of wisconsin and employment and training association of dane county. The project is building the technology to provide workers with easy access to public data and services to help eliminate legal barriers to employment and opportunity.
$345,048 spent91% of program spendingClinical law programs - the economic justice institute, inc. (eji inc) continued to provide support to the uw law school clinical programs as it has done for many years. Program has 5 clinics - consumer law clinic, family court clinic, immigrant justice clinic, neighborhood law clinic, and voca retraining order clinic. Clinicals provide hands-on lawyering experiences with real people--clients, victims, witnesses, family members, lawyers, and judges--and gives law students a better understanding of the roles and responsibilities of a lawyer. Under the direct supervision of clinical professors or supervising attorneys, students meet with clients, perform factual investigations, research legal issues, prepare client letters, draft legal documents, and write briefs.
$33,815 spent$10,442 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $378,863.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $740k to $0 (−100%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 23% · 2023 95% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $124k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 45% · 2022 29% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
29% of ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,546 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,546 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC?
- ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,072,207 to it, the largest being THE ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT FUND FOR STRATEGIC INNOVATION ($1,100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,072,207 in grants to ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC?
- THE ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT FUND FOR STRATEGIC INNOVATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECONOMIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 14 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing