International Families Justice Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 384030477
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2068496885
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Legal Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $128,241
- Expenses
- $129,434
- Assets
- $32,440
- Liabilities
- $7,817
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Eilish Malone (Executive Director (through January 2024))
- Yoshiteru Kinjo (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Naoko Inoue Shatz (Co-Founder, Chairperson, Board Member)
- Mei Shih (Board Member)
- Alice Bagirova (Board Member)
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
International Families Justice Coalition ("IFJC") was organized for charitable and educational purposes providing legal assistance and representations to indigent immigrants and foreign nationals involved in contested domestic relations and family law cases. IFJC provides pro-bono and low-bono legal services to immigrant / international families who are in divorce proceedings. Clients are low income (under federal poverty guidelines) or moderate means clients (under 200% of federal poverty guidelines). IFJC does not handle any clients on a profit basis, but refers potential clients to qualified, multi-lingual attorneys if they are not qualified for IFJC's pro bono or low bono services.
What it reported doing in 2024
IFJC provides pro-bono legal services to immigrant international families who are in divorce proceedings. Clients are low income (under federal poverty guidelines) or moderate means clients (under 200% of federal poverty guidelines). IFJC does not handle any clients on a profit basis, but refers potential clients to qualified, multi-lingual attorneys if they are not qualified for IFJC's pro bono or low bono services. The goal of IFJC is threefold: First, IFJC develops a database of linguistically and culturally competent attorneys willing to take on family law to serve their communities, no matter what their primary practice is. The second goal is to provide family law, international, and immigration education to attorneys and judges to improve the effectiveness of legal services to the community. The third goal is to provide direct representation by volunteer attorneys to qualified indigent clients who otherwise are financially incapable of obtaining such service. For FY 2024-2025, IFJC secured funding from the State of Washington, and the funding allowed IFJC to hire an Executive Director who could expand our capacity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4.2%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 4
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: -0.9%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 46%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -53.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 4.2% of revenue deployed · 4.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.