New York · Nonprofit
JUSTICE CATALYST LAW INC
JUSTICE CATALYST LAW INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,110,000 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($10,010,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $965k
What Justice Catalyst Law Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to expand the legal system's potential to provide meaningful accountability, and to bring justice and sustainable change to the communities that are most often left behind by our economic and legal systems.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Filed, litigated and investigated cases, in support of advocacy efforts of and in collaboration with other 501(c)(3) organizations, to defend human and civil rights secured by law, including cases under the fourteenth amendment due process clause; the fair debt collections practices act, 15 u.s.c. 1692 et seq.; the california unfair business practices statute (section 17200 of the california business & professions code); the trafficking victims protection reauthorization act 18 u.s.c 1589(a-b), 18 u.s.c 1590(a), 18 u.s.c 1594(a-b); the americans with disabilities act; the rehabilitation act 29 u.s.c. 794; the fair housing act; the massachusetts civil rights act (mass. Gen laws ch. 12 (11)); mass gen laws ch 231a (1); mass gen. Law ch 93a; the sherman act; the federal torts claims act; the racketeering influenced and corrupt organizations act (rico), 18 u.s.c. 1961 et seq; 26 u.s.c.7434; the ku klux klan act, 42 u.s.c. 1983; and a variety of constitutional claims under applicable state constitutions.
$2,030,547 spent$158,681 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,030,547.
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 2022 to 2023, from $977k to $1.7M (+71%).
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.
86% of JUSTICE CATALYST LAW INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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.
Chief executive
Benjamin Elga
Director/president/executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $300k → $1.5M.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 JUSTICE CATALYST LAW 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
JUSTICE CATALYST LAW INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 JUSTICE CATALYST LAW INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of JUSTICE CATALYST LAW INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $100k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
JUSTICE CATALYST LAW INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like JUSTICE CATALYST LAW 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 JUSTICE CATALYST LAW 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 JUSTICE CATALYST LAW INC?
- JUSTICE CATALYST LAW INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,110,000 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($10,010,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JUSTICE CATALYST LAW INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,110,000 in grants to JUSTICE CATALYST LAW INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUSTICE CATALYST LAW INC?
- Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,010,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUSTICE CATALYST LAW INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 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