FREEKARIM INC DBA The Law Library
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863722142
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Jamaica, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8555295427
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,450
- Expenses
- $50,043
- Assets
- $3,407
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karim Golding (Founder/Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Karim Golding (Founder/Executive Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To empower marginalized communities? including immigrants, asylum seekers, trafficking survivors, and justice-impacted individuals? by providing accessible legal education, community advocacy, and self-help legal tools focused on detention defense, civil rights, and social justice.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, FreeKarim Inc. (The Law Library) developed and distributed habeas corpus toolkits to help detained immigrants assert their rights, conducted legal empowerment workshops for asylum seekers and trafficking survivors, and created digital advocacy campaigns to raise awareness of systemic injustice. These activities were designed to build self-advocacy skills, improve access to justice, and strengthen community resilience.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.6%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.4%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.