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Education Law Center

EIN 22-2014555Human and Civil Rights New Jersey Small

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Advocates for education justice.

Founded in 1973, the Education Law Center (ELC) serves as a voice for New Jersey's public school children and advocates for equal educational opportunity and education justice in the United States. ELC promotes educational equity through coalition building, litigation support, policy development, communications, and action-focused research in New Jersey, in other states, and at the federal level. ELC's legal and policy advocacy works to advance the provision of fair school funding, high quality early education, safe and adequate school facilities, and school reform, especially to schools serving high concentrations of at-risk students and students with disabilities and other special needs.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

85.06Overall score
out of 100

85.14Financial score
out of 100

85.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$1,621,872

Total expenses · USD$1,953,793

Program expenses

$1,518,097.16 recorded amount

77.7%

Fundraising expenses

$160,211.03 recorded amount

8.2%

Administrative expenses

$273,531.02 recorded amount

14.0%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.09 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: David G. Sciarra
Recorded compensation: $156,783.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 8.02%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Education Law Center
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	85.0
`category` Category	Human and Civil Rights
`description` Mission & description	Founded in 1973, the Education Law Center (ELC) serves as a voice for New Jersey's public school children and advocates for equal educational opportunity and education justice in the United States. ELC promotes educational equity through coalition building, litigation support, policy development, communications, and action-focused research in New Jersey, in other states, and at the federal level. ELC's legal and policy advocacy works to advance the provision of fair school funding, high quality early education, safe and adequate school facilities, and school reform, especially to schools serving high concentrations of at-risk students and students with disabilities and other special needs.
`ein` EIN	22-2014555
`tot_exp` Total expenses	1953793.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.14
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.09
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.08199999999999999
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.777
`fscore` Financial score	85.14
`leader` Recorded leader	David G. Sciarra
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	156783.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0802
`motto` Tagline	Advocates for education justice.
`name` Charity name	Education Law Center
`tot_rev` Total revenue	1621872.0
`score` Overall score	85.06
`state` State code	NJ
`subcategory` Subcategory	Advocacy and Education
`size` Source size label	small
`program_exp` Program expenses	1518097.161
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	160211.02599999998
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	273531.02

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 22-2014555
Source category: Human and Civil Rights
Source subcategory: Advocacy and Education
Recorded location: New Jersey (NJ)
Expense-based size: Small
Under $3.5M in total expenses · source label: small

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.