Nihonmachi Legal Outreach

Analysis

Nihonmachi Legal Outreach is a registered charity in United States, based in Oakland, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1979, 47 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Nihonmachi Legal Outreach reported income of $5.3m and spending of $4.9m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $4.3m to $5.3m (+25%), an average of +5.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Nihonmachi Legal Outreach sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Appellate Defenders Inc ($5.3m), Justice Systems Partners ($5.3m) and Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association Inc ($5.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.7% and program service revenue 96% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $147k (3.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.5m. At year end it held assets of $6.6m against liabilities of $1.5m, net assets of $5.1m. It reported 57 employees.