Latinojustice Prldef
Overview
Mission
Latinojustice prldef (ljp) uses and challenges laws to create a more just and equitable society. We transform harmful systems, empower our communities, fight for racial justice, and grow the next generation of lideres. Ljp works in the areas of voting rights and redistricting, immigrant rights, economic justice, criminal legal system reform and leadership development.
What it reported doing in 2024
Litigation: in response to a myriad of civil rights challenges and with continuing robust pro bono law firm and community partnerships, ljp continues to engage in expansive human and civil rights litigation across our core issue pillars. We brought legal challenges to increasingly aggressive and hostile immigration and law enforcement policies and tactics, including forcefully litigating a class action on behalf of 674 illegally detained persons held in local jail custody by the suffolk county sheriff's office. We continue to litigate various challenges to unconstitutional local law enforcement and policing policies criminalizing immigrants. We actively defend access to education in public schools and higher education across the country. We challenge expanded state and federal voter suppression efforts that seek to limit access to the ballot box, including an executive order that sought to unilaterally impose additional unconstitutional citizenship requirements in order to vote. We actively challenge all forms of racial discrimination and other constitutional violations by federal, state and local governments, and fight private actors who deprive our communities of wages and access to education.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 132722664
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Headquarters
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2127397514
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Legal Services
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 78.8%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.66 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -25.6%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.23; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 78.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $7.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $263K · 33 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 annual filings from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Leadership & pay
33 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- LOURDES M ROSADO (PRESIDENT & GENERAL COUNSEL): $262,550 total reported compensation
- JOSE PEREZ (DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL): $239,928 total reported compensation
- GHITA SCHWARZ (DIRECTOR OF LITIGATION): $210,344 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.