Texas · Nonprofit
Equal Justice Center
Equal Justice Center (Texas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,018,334 to it, the largest being Texas Access to Justice Foundation ($3,124,605). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $942k
What Equal Justice Center does
Mission
The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society - regardless of immigration status.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, EJC successfully litigated employment cases on behalf of workersenforcing their rights to remedy employment law violations. EJC recovered a total of $1,406,869 in employment judgments and settlements during the calendar year. This includes $1,030,289.83 in unpaid wages and damages recovered by clients who suffered non-payment of wages, employment discrimination, retaliation, and other employment violations. EJC also recovered $338,381.82 in attorney fees that employers were required to pay through fee-shifting statutes in which EJC and our clients acted as private attorneys general. The EJC has also had profound ongoing success with the immigration legal aid we provide for working immigrants. The expertise and efficiency of our immigration legal services continue to be life-changing for our worker clients including DACA recipients, and victims of labor trafficking, sexual assault, and other crimes.
$435,002 spent$376,268 earned by the program77% of program spendingA uniquely specialized aspect of EJCs employment right legal assistance consists of legal aid for survivors of sexual assault. In 2025, EJC continued to help survivors combat sexual assault and sexual harassment in the workplace, providing legaladvice and counsel, and obtaining monetary and other legal remedies for victims and providing economic stability to their recovery.
$76,151 spent13% of program spendingEvery year the EJC also helps strengthen the legal profession by cultivating a new generation of public service lawyers through the EJCs Employment Rights Clinic at the University of Texas Law School.
$56,576 spent$16,667 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $567,729.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2024 to 2025, from $609k to $1.1M (+76%).
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: 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of Equal Justice Center’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Christopher Willet
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $451k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Equal Justice Center’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
Equal Justice Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 Equal Justice Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 44% · 2019 84% · 2020 63% · 2021 75% · 2022 85% · 2023 95% — broadly stable.
“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
38% of Equal Justice Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
87% of Equal Justice Center's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $206k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Equal Justice Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Equal Justice Center
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Equal Justice Center: 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 Equal Justice Center?
- Equal Justice Center (Texas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,018,334 to it, the largest being Texas Access to Justice Foundation ($3,124,605). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Equal Justice Center have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $4,018,334 in grants to Equal Justice Center, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Equal Justice Center?
- Texas Access to Justice Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,124,605 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Equal Justice Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing