Arizona · Nonprofit
WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,413,959 to it, the largest being ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION ($1,608,959). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $518k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $182k
What William E Morris Institute for Justice does
Mission
The William E. Morris Institute for Justice advocates on behalf of low income Arizonans in historically marginalized communities, protecting their most basic civil and human rights.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
MIJs 2023 program accomplishments include successful administrative and policy advocacy ensuring economic security, food security, and health care justice for low income Arizonans statewide, initiation of a federal administrative civil rights complaint regarding the City of Mesas administration of federal rental assistance program waiting list pre application processes, and delivery of statewide justice advocacy training on the national civil right to counsel movement, automated harm visited upon economically vulnerable Arizonans by artificial intelligence, ethics in legal aid practice, updates on new Arizona laws. MIJ continued critical dialogues with Arizona State Government officials on the administration of public benefits and entitlements programs and services, as well as planning for the eventual end to the ongoing, federally declared Public Health Emergency caused by the COVID19 pandemic. All of MIJs program activities broadly serve low income Arizonans, communities of color, immigrants and new Americans living in Arizona, and vulnerable Arizona youth, among other populations experiencing disproportionate harm arising out of the COVID19 pandemic and their life…
$432,068 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $432,068.
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 2022 to 2023, from $389k to $257k (−34%).
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.
99% of WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE’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. 3 of the last 7 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $218k → $290k.
From the IRS filings of WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE’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
WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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 WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 65% · 2020 60% · 2021 54% · 2022 46% · 2023 71% — 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.
Where its funders are
67% of WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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 WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: 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 WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE?
- WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,413,959 to it, the largest being ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION ($1,608,959). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,413,959 in grants to WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE?
- ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,608,959 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 3 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