Public Charity

Free Law Project

Free Law Project, of Oakland, CA, is a Public Charity tracked in Imperigo's IRS 990 database. The 2024 filing shows $1.3M in revenue, $998K in expenses, $1.1M in total assets. 18 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $672K, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 463342480 Oakland, CA Public Interest Law NTEE: I83 Latest filing: 2024
Total Revenue$1.3M
Total Expenses$998K
Total Assets$1.1M
Grant Records18
Funding Total$672K
Filing Years2019–2024

Mission

We make the legal ecosystem for fair and competitive by a collecting, curating and supporting free, pulic and permanent access to primary legal materials b developing, implementing and providing public access to technologies c create an open ecosystem for legal research and materials and d support academic researchers and journalists

Where $100 goes at Free Law Project

How Free Law Project divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 7 years.

$91 Programs the work itself
$9 Management running the organization
$0 Fundraising none reported

No fundraising costs are reported. That often means fundraising runs through a separate affiliated organization that files its own return.

Inside the $91 for programs

$91
We run various legal based services including Court Listener and RECAP, APIs and Replication
All program spending
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2024. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

Board Member Ansel Halliburton
Treasurer Brian Carver
Employee Jenifer Whiston
Ex Director Michael Lissner
Employee William Palin

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Top Grant Purposes

Human & Social Services
$538,425 5 grants
General Support
$133,787 12 grants

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2024 $1.3M $998K $1.1M
2023 $854K $537K $748K
2022 $639K $481K $431K
2020 $228K $255K $233K
2019 $310K $176K $268K

Between 2019 and 2024, reported annual revenue grew from $310K to $1.3M (+335%), with total assets most recently reported at $1.1M.

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