Attach to Form 990 or Form 990-EZ.
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| (i) Name of supported organization | (ii) EIN | (iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 10 above (see instructions)) | (iv) Is the organization listed in your governing document? | (v) Amount of monetary support (see instructions) | (vi) Amount of other support (see instructions) | |
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Calendar year
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(a) 2017 | (b) 2018 | (c) 2019 | (d) 2020 | (e) 2021 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grant.") .. | 5,031,289 | 5,717,219 | 6,304,075 | 5,651,681 | 20,015,131 | 42,719,395 |
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf.... | ||||||
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | ||||||
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3 | 5,031,289 | 5,717,219 | 6,304,075 | 5,651,681 | 20,015,131 | 42,719,395 |
| 5 | The portion of total contributions by each person (other than a governmental unit or publicly supported organization) included on line 1 that exceeds 2% of the amount shown on line 11, column (f) .. | ||||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 42,719,395 | |||||
Calendar year
(or fiscal year beginning in)
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(a) 2017 | (b) 2018 | (c) 2019 | (d) 2020 | (e) 2021 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 5,031,289 | 5,717,219 | 6,304,075 | 5,651,681 | 20,015,131 | 42,719,395 |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | 639,787 | 629,289 | 587,292 | 378,689 | 353,173 | 2,588,230 |
| 9 | Net income from unrelated business activities, whether or not the business is regularly carried on.. | ||||||
| 10 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.).. | 45,632 | 23,529 | 21,483 | 19,029 | 61,576 | 171,249 |
| 11 | Total support. Add lines 7 through 10 | 45,478,874 | |||||
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(a) 2017 | (b) 2018 | (c) 2019 | (d) 2020 | (e) 2021 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") . | ||||||
| 2 | Gross receipts from admissions, merchandise sold or services performed, or facilities furnished in any activity that is related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose | ||||||
| 3 | Gross receipts from activities that are not an unrelated trade or business under section 513 ..... | ||||||
| 4 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf... | ||||||
| 5 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge | ||||||
| 6 | Total. Add lines 1 through 5 | ||||||
| 7a | Amounts included on lines 1, 2, and 3 received from disqualified persons | ||||||
| b | Amounts included on lines 2 and 3 received from other than disqualified persons that exceed the greater of $5,000 or 1% of the amount on line 13 for the year. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 7a and 7b.. | ||||||
| 8 | Public support. (Subtract line 7c from line 6.) | ||||||
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(a) 2017 | (b) 2018 | (c) 2019 | (d) 2020 | (e) 2021 | (f) Total | |
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| 9 | Amounts from line 6... | ||||||
| 10a | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources.. | ||||||
| b | Unrelated business taxable income (less section 511 taxes) from businesses acquired after June 30, 1975. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 10a and 10b. | ||||||
| 11 | Net income from unrelated business activities not included on line 10b, whether or not the business is regularly carried on. | ||||||
| 12 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.) .. | ||||||
| 13 | Total support. (Add lines 9, 10c, 11, and 12.).. | ||||||
| Section A - Adjusted Net Income | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Net short-term capital gain | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Other gross income (see instructions) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Add lines 1 through 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Depreciation and depletion | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Portion of operating expenses paid or incurred for production or collection of gross income or for management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for production of income (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Other expenses (see instructions) | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Adjusted Net Income (subtract lines 5, 6 and 7 from line 4) | 8 | ||||
| Section B - Minimum Asset Amount | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Aggregate fair market value of all non-exempt-use assets (see instructions for short tax year or assets held for part of year): | 1 | ||||
| a | Average monthly value of securities | 1a | ||||
| b | Average monthly cash balances | 1b | ||||
| c | Fair market value of other non-exempt-use assets | 1c | ||||
| d | Total (add lines 1a, 1b, and 1c) | 1d | ||||
| e |
Discount claimed for blockage or other factors (explain in detail in Part VI): |
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| 2 | Acquisition indebtedness applicable to non-exempt use assets | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Subtract line 2 from line 1d | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Cash deemed held for exempt use. Enter 0.015 of line 3 (for greater amount, see instructions). | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Net value of non-exempt-use assets (subtract line 4 from line 3) | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Multiply line 5 by 0.035 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Minimum Asset Amount (add line 7 to line 6) | 8 | ||||
| Section C - Distributable Amount | Current Year | |||||
| 1 | Adjusted net income for prior year (from Section A, line 8, Column A) | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Enter 85% of line 1 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Minimum asset amount for prior year (from Section B, line 8, Column A) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Enter greater of line 2 or line 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Income tax imposed in prior year | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Distributable Amount. Subtract line 5 from line 4, unless subject to emergency temporary reduction (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| Section D - Distributions | Current Year | |
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| 1 Amounts paid to supported organizations to accomplish exempt purposes | 1 | |
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2
Amounts paid to perform activity that directly furthers exempt purposes of supported organizations, in excess of income from activity |
2 | |
| 3 Administrative expenses paid to accomplish exempt purposes of supported organizations | 3 | |
| 4 Amounts paid to acquire exempt-use assets | 4 | |
| 5 Qualified set-aside amounts (prior IRS approval required - provide details in Part VI) | 5 | |
| 6 Other distributions (describe in Part VI). See instructions | 6 | |
| 7Total annual distributions. Add lines 1 through 6. | 7 | |
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8
Distributions to attentive supported organizations to which the organization is responsive (provide details in Part VI). See instructions |
8 | |
| 9 Distributable amount for 2021 from Section C, line 6 | 9 | |
| 10 Line 8 amount divided by Line 9 amount | 10 | |
| Section E - Distribution Allocations (see instructions) |
(i) Excess Distributions |
(ii) Underdistributions Pre-2021 |
(iii) Distributable Amount for 2021 |
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| 1 Distributable amount for 2021 from Section C, line 6 | ||||
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2
Underdistributions, if any, for years prior to 2021 (reasonable cause required-- explain in Part VI). See instructions. |
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| 3 Excess distributions carryover, if any, to 2021: | ||||
| a From 2016....... | ||||
| b From 2017....... | ||||
| c From 2018....... | ||||
| d From 2019....... | ||||
| e From 2020....... | ||||
| fTotal of lines 3a through e | ||||
| g Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| h Applied to 2021 distributable amount | ||||
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Carryover from 2016 not applied (see instructions) |
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| j Remainder. Subtract lines 3g, 3h, and 3i from line 3f. | ||||
| 4Distributions for 2021 from Section D, line 7: | ||||
| $ | ||||
| a Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| b Applied to 2021 distributable amount | ||||
| c Remainder. Subtract lines 4a and 4b from line 4. | ||||
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5
Remaining underdistributions for years prior to 2021, if any. Subtract lines 3g and 4a from line 2. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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6
Remaining underdistributions for 2021. Subtract lines 3h and 4b from line 1. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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7 Excess distributions carryover to 2022. Add lines 3j and 4c. |
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| 8 Breakdown of line 7: | ||||
| a Excess from 2017..... | ||||
| b Excess from 2018..... | ||||
| c Excess from 2019..... | ||||
| d Excess from 2020..... | ||||
| e Excess from 2021..... | ||||
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Attach to Form 990 or 990-EZ.
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| Form 990, Part III, 4a, Legal Service Support: | The Foundation collaborates with justice partners throughout the state, like the Supreme Court of Ohio, the Ohio Judicial Conference, and the Ohio State Bar Association, to make Ohio a more thriving, just, and equitable community. The Foundation is the largest funder of civil legal aid in Ohio. Civil legal aid provides skilled lawyers to help low-income and underserved Ohioans address life-changing civil legal matters that impact their ability to live safe, stable, and financially secure lives. The Foundation provides grants to ensure that: veterans can secure the benefits they earned through their service; seniors can preserve their independence and financial security; survivors of domestic violence can obtain safety and security; families dealing with the opioid crisis can achieve stability; and children can obtain the supports they need to succeed in school. Last year, in addition to annual core funding, the Foundation also disbursed almost $7 million in revenue replacement grants to restore legal aid grant funding lost as a direct result of the pandemic. The Foundation also furthers its mission to improve access to justice by developing new and innovative services to help Ohioans facing legal challenges access trustworthy legal information and referrals. In response to Ohio welcoming almost 2,000 Afghan evacuees, the Foundation provided over $1 million in funding for Afghan civil legal services to help the evacuees stabilize themselves and their families in Ohio. The Foundation also funds grants directed specifically at helping Ohio veterans ensure that they are able to live safe and stable lives. In addition to facilitating veterans access to federal benefits earned through their service to the country, Foundation funding also supports discharge upgrades, housing stabilization legal services, and addresses the myriad other legal issues that can make it difficult for veterans to thrive in civilian life. The Foundation also provides grant funding for civil legal services to help Ohioans and their families struggling with substance abuse disorders. In order to regain stability lost as a result of a substance abuse disorder, Ohioans often require legal assistance addressing debt, housing, record sealing and family matters. The Foundation created, launched, and now funds the nonprofit Ohio Legal Help, a state-of-the-art web portal that gives all Ohioans meaningful access to reliable legal information. Ohio Legal Help is available twenty-four hours a day and in all eighty-eight counties. During the last fiscal year, Ohio Legal Help served almost 700,000 Ohioans across Ohio. Additionally, the Foundation funds innovative legal services to catalyze community redevelopment in targeted communities around Ohio through Neighborhood Stabilization Grants. Since 2017, the Foundation has disbursed over $11.3 million to support transactional civil legal work to empower Ohioans and their local community groups to revitalize their neighborhoods through such efforts as the development of new businesses, the implementation of solar power, and the restoration and creation of affordable housing. Through a generous Victim of Crime Assistance grant from the Ohio Attorney General's Office, the Foundation also awarded over $170,000 to fund critical legal work to serve older Ohioans at risk of financial abuse and exploitation. Thanks to this crucial funding, thousands of Ohio seniors receive timely legal advice and counsel through a statewide senior legal hotline. Further, the Foundation supports outstanding law graduates with a passion for public service through two-year fellowships to address emergent legal needs. These young lawyers serve as Justice for All Fellows at civil legal service organizations throughout Ohio. Fellows focus their work on legal issues which adversely impact low-income and underserved Ohioans. Current Justice For All Fellows work on matters such as: supporting children of color in school to increase educational success and reduce referrals to juvenile court; increasing generational wealth and home ownership for Black Ohioans; helping asylum seekers achieve permanency and security; and, supporting senior Ohioans who were the victims of elder abuse. The Foundation also funds a Justice for All Summer Clerkship program to support law students of color interested in working in civil legal services. The program provides funding to host organizations to cover the salary of summer law students from Ohio law schools. Through this program law students of color can gain valuable legal experience while addressing the critical legal needs of low-income and underserved Ohioans. In addition to funding fellows to work on emergent civil legal needs, the Foundation expands access to justice in Ohio by promoting the recruitment and retention of civil legal aid attorneys with superior skills and qualifications through its Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP). The Foundation's LRAP provides up to $6,000 in annual educational loan repayment assistance to attorneys employed by qualifying Ohio legal service organizations. In FY 2022 (July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022), the Foundation provided 25 participants over $110,000 in loan repayment assistance for private educational loans not subject to the federal forbearance provisions. LRAP is a vital tool in recruiting and retaining the best and brightest attorneys, who otherwise, due to student loan debt, could not afford to work for a civil legal aid society. Thanks to the generous support of the Supreme Court of Ohio, the Foundation is able to provide program improvement and development grants. Through this funding, the Foundation has supported Ohio Legal Help's expansion and maintenance as well as funding intranets and professional document management systems for each of Ohio's legal aid societies. Through such technology improvements, Ohio's legal services providers are better able to increase work efficiencies and thereby maximize their capacity to provide civil legal services to Ohioans in need. The Foundation also administers other grant funding to support Ohio's civil legal aid societies and improve access to justice. As noted above, the Foundation ensures that the grant funds help low-income and underserved Ohioans overcome legal challenges so they can live safe, stable, and financially secure lives. Through its grant administration, the Foundation captures measurable data to improve and expand both legal services and other efforts to diminish the justice gap. In FY 2022, the Foundation successfully oversaw the distribution of more than $10.8 million from Interest on Lawyer's Trust Accounts (IOLTA), Interest on Trust Accounts (IOTA), and filing fee revenue. As a result of the Foundation's funding, Ohio's legal aids provided legal information, advice, or representation in over 60,000 civil matters and assisted over 133,000 Ohioans, including nearly 4,000 veterans and 18,000 seniors. Finally, the Foundation educates both state and national legislators, as well as the public about the importance of civil legal aid and the transformative impact that civil legal services has on people's lives. To that end, the Foundation is honored to partner with Ohio's courts, bar associations, businesses, governmental agencies, social service agencies, and others to increase the awareness of and build support for civil legal aid and increased access to justice in Ohio. |
| Form 990, Part III, 4c, Pro Bono and Ohio Justice Bus: | The Foundation also responds to emergent circumstances as it did last year, when the Foundation worked with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and the Ohio State Bar Association to train over 400 lawyers on Afghan legal issues in order to respond to the arrival of almost 2,000 Afghan evacuees in Ohio. Through a generous grant from the Supreme Court of Ohio, the Foundation works at the statewide level to increase pro bono participation in delivering civil legal services to low-income and underserved Ohioans. The Foundation is a catalyst for the development of new, statewide, and local pro bono initiatives. The Foundation also works to increase the pro bono capacity of existing pro bono programs around the state by publicly promoting and recognizing pro bono efforts to encourage and grow pro bono involvement. One of the Foundation's most successful efforts, recognized by the American Bar Association's Solo, Small Firm and GP Division as a national "difference maker" in pro bono is the Ohio Justice Bus ("the Bus"). The Bus has a statewide footprint. With 50 committed, volunteer lawyers, the Bus is on the road for roughly three days a week. It has recurring monthly clinics in Adams, Clermont, and Delaware counties and can be found at clinics in other counties addressing legal questions ranging from kinship care to record sealing to advance directors. As part of its efforts to lift up pro bono volunteers, the Foundation annually presents the Presidential Award to recognize an individual or an organization's outstanding efforts to improve access to justice in Ohio. The 2022 recipient was Judge Andrew Logan from the Trumbull County Court of Common Pleas. Judge Logan spearheaded a collaboration between the Trumbull County Court and Community Legal Aid to create the Clarence Darrow Clinic, a judicially led pro bono clinic that responds to referrals in consumer and housing matters from all courts in the county. Thanks to a generous grant from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, the Foundation awards pro bono support grants to programs in the Southern District that help low-income and underserved Ohioans navigate the justice system successfully. The clinics operate to provide general pro bono legal services in remote rural counties and increase larger capacity in more populous counties. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b | The Foundation's Audit Committee, through delegation by the Board, reviews and approves a final draft of the 990. The full Board receives and reviews the 990 prior to the 990 being signed and filed with the IRS. The Foundation's most recently filed 990 is posted on its website. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c | The Foundation's conflict of interest policy and procedures extends to all Directors and to the Foundation's Executive Director and General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer. Each Director and Officer must annually complete and sign "The Ohio Access to Justice Foundation Annual Business Relationship and Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form." Determinations of whether an actual conflict exists are made by the Board through a majority vote which excludes the vote of a potentially conflicted director. No Director or Officer may preside over, vote on, or participate in any deliberation of any matter in which such Director or Officer has a conflict or potential conflict of interest. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15a | The Executive Committee of the Board reviews the Executive Director's performance and compensation annually. As a basis for comparison, the committee reviews executive director compensation for comparable nonprofit organizations in Ohio and nationally through composite salary surveys. The Board meets in executive session at a duly called meeting and, per the recommendation of the Executive Committee, approves any salary increases for the Executive Director. Contemporaneous minutes memorialize the Board's salary discussion and vote. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 | The Foundation makes its governing documents available to the public on its website, www.ohiojusticefoundation.org, including the annual business relationship and conflict of interest disclosure policy and procedure, annual report, and latest Form 990. The Foundation makes other documents available upon request. |
| Form 990, Part VIII, Line 1f: | The Foundation oversees the disbursement and grant of funds generated by interest on lawyer trust accounts (IOLTA), interest on trust accounts (IOTA), and civil filing fee surcharges. The Form 990 Part VIII lists these funds as other contributions on line 1f. The money is passed through the state of Ohio but is derived from individual lawyer trust accounts, title agent accounts, and individual civil filings in courts throughout the state of Ohio. |
| Form 990, Part XII, Line 2c: | The process has not changed from the prior year. |
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