New York · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC
NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC (New York) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,338,602 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($1,345,572). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What National Center for Law and Economic Justice Inc does
Mission
Nclej advances economic, racial, and disability justice for low-income individuals, families, and communities across the country.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Civil rights/racial justice: economic inequality remains one of the most persistent and harmful consequences of discrimination and white supremacy. Our collective failure to provide a social safety net has robbed low-income peopledisproportionately people of color and people with disabilitiesof the most basic opportunity to survive and thrive. Employment discrimination relegates people of color disproportionately to low-wage jobs that provide neither a living wage, health benefits or a safe work environment. Predatory lending and limited access to fair credit limits opportunities for advancement by making it difficult for people of color to obtain loans for acquiring housing and creating wealth. Targeted and discriminatory law enforcement and unfair assessment and collection of civil fines and fees perpetuates debt, criminalizes poverty and deprives individuals and communities of public safety. Using litigation, public education, legislative reform and support of grassroots organizing, nclej aims to end policies and practices that perpetuate inequality and to make real the dream of opportunity that has been denied to too many for far too long.
$1,225,257 spent$154,462 earned by the program50% of program spendingPublic benefits advocacy: nclej works to ensure that government policies and practices are accessible to households who receive critical cash assistance, food stamps, and medicaid for which they are eligible. When government agencies fall short of their legal obligations for example, by making it difficult for people to apply or access benefits, obstruct timely assistance or accommodation, or prematurely roll out a faulty computer system that denies subsistence benefits to thousands of eligible families, nclej uses court challenges to redress the harm and hold public officials accountable.
$616,750 spent$2,588,904 earned by the program25% of program spendingSupport for low-wage workers: abusive employer practices and stagnant wages prevent many workers, even those able to find full-time employment, from earning a living wage. Wage theft is rampant: all too often, employers violate labor and employment laws by failing to pay the minimum wage for all hours worked, refusing to pay overtime, or classifying employees as independent contractors to avoid laws that protect workers. These violations disproportionally affect women, people of color, and immigrants. Women make up the majority of the low-wage workforce, while people of color and immigrants are similarly overrepresented in low-paying jobs and industries. Further, many workers are excluded from the protections afforded by labor and employment law, including health and safety standards and freedom from discrimination. Nclej provides litigation support and advocacy to improve conditions and fight for more just policies. Nclej also works in support of grassroots worker centers and other organizers and has been in the vanguard of the worker-driven social responsibility (wsr) movement.
$615,304 spent25% of program spendingCombatting unfair debt collection: nclej protects low-income debtors and leads the fight against abusive debt collection practices that undermine families and communities' economic stability. Although those practices may be imposed by private or public actors, increasingly, that work focuses on abusive debt collection policies and practices by governmental actors. We challenge attempts to collect fines and fees from persons too poor to pay and against whom the government may, for example, take away a driver's license or intercept a state tax refund.
$234 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,457,545.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.6M to $3.6M (+127%).
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 19% · 2022 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Jason Williamson
Executive director
Board chair
Sandra D Hauser
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $56k → $1.1M.
8 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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
NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 46% · 2019 30% · 2020 41% · 2021 22% · 2022 29% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“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
36% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $769k 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
NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC?
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC (New York) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,338,602 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($1,345,572). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $3,338,602 in grants to NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC?
- LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,345,572 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 37 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