EIN 36-3361312

Equip for Equality (EFE)

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
77
Year formed
1985
Most recent tax filings
2022-09-01
Description
Equip for Equality is a private, not-for-profit legal advocacy organization and is the federally mandated Protection and Advocacy System designated to safeguard the rights of people with physical and mental disabilities.
Total revenues
$8,749,152
2022
Total expenses
$8,087,307
2022
Total assets
$3,785,149
2022
Num. employees
77
2022

Program areas at EFE

Protection & advocacy system for individuals with developmental disabilities in the mid-1970's, congress established a unique, innovative, experimental initiative to safeguard the rights of people with developmental disabilities. Under this program, each governor was empowered to designate one independent organization to serve as a legal advocate and watchdog for people with developmental disabilities in the state. In this role, Equip for Equality provides self-advocacy assistance and legal services to remedy individual rights violations and pursues systems-change initiatives to benefit the disability community. These initiatives include facility monitoring, systems litigation to promote community living, public policy advocacy, training on disability rights, and other social change strategies.
Protection & advocacy system for individuals with mental illnessin response to alarming findings of widespread abuse and neglect and fundamental rights violations in state psychiatric hospitals and other facilities that congressional hearings across the country had documented, in the mid-1980s congress expanded the role of the independent, state-level protection & avocacy systems to include people with serious mental and emotional illnesses. With this expanded role and authority, Equip for Equality monitors the use of restraint and seclusion; assesses the quality of state-conducted abuse investigations; ensures that treatment meets quality standards; and calls for reforms to promote employment, self-determination, communityliving, and other rights under the americans with disabilities act (ada).
Protection and advocacy system for individual rightsfollowing adoption of the ada, the landmark federal civil rights law for people with disabilities, congress recognized that most individuals with disabilities would not have access to legal services to enforce their ada rights. Thus, in the early 1990s, congress once again expanded the role and authority of the state p&a systems to empower them to advocate for the rights of individuals with physical and other disabilities (besides developmental disabilities and mental illness) who are experiencing discrimination and other rights violations. Under this new p&a initiative, Equip for Equality opened its doors to individuals with all types of disabilities (e.g., mobility, learning, sensory, and others), with a focus on promoting access and challenging discriminatory practices prohibited under the ada.

Who funds Equip for Equality (EFE)

Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
GrantmakerDescriptionAmount
Lawyers Trust Fund of IllinoisTo Provide Free Legal Services & Diversity, Equity,and Inclusion Grants$275,000
Illinois Equal Justice Foundation (IEJF)To Provide Legal Information and Advice on Special Education Issues Via A Statewide Hotline. To Provide Outreach To Disabled People Impacted By Criminalization of Cannabis.$110,000
Equal Justice WorksFellowship Support$106,214
...and 14 more grants received

Personnel at EFE

NameTitleCompensation
Zena NaiditchPresident's Office / President and Chief Executive Officer$243,412
Jim McMillanChief Financial Officer
Barry C TaylorVice President - Civil Rights and Litigation$143,182
Deborah M KennedyVice President - Abuse Investigation Unit$145,973
Olga F PribylVice President - Special Ed Clinic$133,067
...and 16 more key personnel

Financials for EFE

RevenuesFYE 09/2022
Total grants, contributions, etc.$7,514,450
Program services$1,226,940
Investment income and dividends$5,395
Tax-exempt bond proceeds$0
Royalty revenue$0
Net rental income$0
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$-1,845
Net income from fundraising events$0
Net income from gaming activities$0
Net income from sales of inventory$0
Miscellaneous revenues$4,212
Total revenues$8,749,152

Form 990s for EFE

Fiscal year endingDate received by IRSFormPDF link
2022-092023-08-04990View PDF
2021-092022-08-05990View PDF
2020-092021-07-27990View PDF
2019-092020-09-14990View PDF
2018-092019-09-14990View PDF
...and 8 more Form 990s
Data update history
June 27, 2023
Received grants
Identified 10 new grant, including a grant for $275,000 from Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois
June 14, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2021
May 6, 2023
Updated personnel
Identified 3 new personnel
May 6, 2023
Received grants
Identified 1 new grant, including a grant for $103,690 from Equal Justice Works
October 2, 2022
Used new vendors
Identified 1 new vendor, including
Nonprofit Types
Human rights organizationsLegal service nonprofitsCivil rights and social justice organizationsCharities
Issues
HealthHuman rightsDiseases and disordersHomelessnessLegal services
Characteristics
Political advocacyLobbyingReceives government fundingCommunity engagement / volunteeringTax deductible donations
General information
Address
20 N Michigan Ave 300
Chicago, IL 60602
Metro area
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI
Website URL
equipforequality.org/ 
Phone
(312) 341-0022
Facebook page
equipforequality 
Twitter profile
@equip4equality 
IRS details
EIN
36-3361312
Fiscal year end
September
Taxreturn type
Form 990
Year formed
1985
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
R20: Civil Rights, Advocacy for Specific Groups
NAICS code, primary
5411: Legal Services
Parent/child status
Independent
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