EIN 23-7085442

Legal Momentum

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
21
Year formed
1970
Most recent tax filings
2023-06-01
NTEE code, primary
Description
Legal Momentum safeguards and expands women's rights under the law, while ensuring the economic and personal security of all women and girls. Its legal department focuses on workplace equality and economic empowerment through its Women Valued program. Additionally, Legal Momentum guarantees fairness in the courts through its award-winning national judicial education program (NJEP), which is the national source for judicial education on sexual violence. NJEP provides training material to promote unbiased decision-making by judges. Legal Momentum is located in New York, NY.
Total revenues
$1,855,959
2023
Total expenses
$1,858,418
2023
Total assets
$2,585,829
2023
Num. employees
21
2023

Program areas at Legal Momentum

National judicial education programensuring fairness in the courts through Legal Momentum's national judicial education program (njep): the award-winning njep is the national source for judicial education on sexual violence. Njep provides training materials, seminars and conferences, and webinars for judges, prosecutors, victims' attorneys and advocates, and other justice system professionals about the ways in which gender bias can undermine fairness in criminal, civil, family, and juvenile law. Njep focuses primarily on sexual assault cases and cases involving the intersection of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Legal programs:legal Momentum's Legal department focuses on a number of issues important to advancing gender equality for women, including:workplace equality and economic empowerment: through our women valued initiative, Legal Momentum is implementing strategies to advance gender equality in the workplace and enhance economic security for women, with a focus on the most vulnerable groups, including women of color, women working in low-wage industries, survivors of gender-based violence, and immigrant women. (continued on schedule o)(continued from part iii, line 4b) by developing a know-your-rights guidance on the broad spectrum of workplace rights and related benefits and providing training and outreach to low-income women, the project aims to promote early intervention by educating women about how to actively assert their rights in the workplace and when trying to enter the workforce. The project also raises awareness and engages in legislative and regulatory advocacy for reform at the national, state, and local levels to advance gender equality in the workplace and enhance women's economic security.combatting violence against women: Legal Momentum is working on several projects with the goal of empowering survivors to address gender-based violence and ensuring informed community responses and accountability for violence perpetrated against women and girls including: a. Nationwide legislative policy guidances (together with orrick, herrington & sutcliffe): to ensure that extorting sexual acts or imagery is recognized as a sex crime following our july 2016 report, a call to action: ending sextortion in the digital age;b. Led efforts to pass a reauthorization of the federal violence against women act (vawa) which improves responses to gender-based violence and increases services for victims and survivors;c. research and policy advocacy guidances to pass a federal and/or state-based gender-based violence civil rights remedy to replace the vawa civil rights remedy struck down by the u.s. supreme court in u.s. v. morrison (2000);d. litigation on behalf of survivors of gender-based violence who have faced discrimination in the workplace on the basis of their status as a survivor of domestic/sexual violence; e. through our newly launched online training, helping sexual assault victims navigate the criminal justice system, Legal Momentum provides training and technical assistance to victim advocates on how to provide effective advocacy for sexual assault victims as they attempt to navigate the criminal justice system. F. leading efforts to enact broader workplace protections for survivors.reproductive justice: Legal Momentum is expanding our work on reproductive rights to engage in research, outreach, and litigation to challenge government surveillance of and intrusion into the lives of pregnant persons. Ensuring equal educational opportunities for women and girls: Legal Momentum, with expertise in title ix of the education amendments of 1972, provides Legal assistance and counseling to victims of campus sexual assault and to students who are pregnant and parenting, and leads nationwide policy advocacy on these issues. Additionally, Legal Momentum is beginning the seventh consecutive year of our successful 'rights now!' Program, under a grant from the new york city council young women's initiative. Through this program, Legal Momentum develops trainings, peer educational programming, and resources to empower young, at-risk girls (particularly girls of color) in new york city and provide them with accessible information about their rights as students and young workers.helpline - direct services and technical assistance:legal Momentum's helpline receives several hundred calls per year from women seeking assistance for such matters as employment issues (sexual harassment, sexual discrimination, pay equity, pregnancy accommodation), campus sexual assault, gender-based violence. Callers are provided with technical assistance, or referrals to other Legal service providers (including the private bar), and government agencies.

Who funds Legal Momentum

Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
GrantmakerDescriptionAmount
The Chicago Community TrustGeneral Operating Support$102,000
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundFor Grant Recipient's Exempt Purposes$62,050
Mary Jane Wahl Gearns FoundationSupport Programs To Protect the Legal Rights of Women$28,750
...and 15 more grants received

Personnel at Legal Momentum

NameTitleCompensation
Carol A Baldwin MoodyPresident and Chief Executive Officer$205,332
Carol BaldwinMoody , President and Chief Executive Officer
Sandra BrownChief of Staff
Lynn HechtSenior Vice President, and Director of the National Judicial Education Program
Crystal WilliamsDirector of Development , Events and Appeals
...and 17 more key personnel

Financials for Legal Momentum

RevenuesFYE 06/2023
Total grants, contributions, etc.$1,866,030
Program services$0
Investment income and dividends$34,863
Tax-exempt bond proceeds$0
Royalty revenue$0
Net rental income$0
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$-53,031
Net income from fundraising events$0
Net income from gaming activities$0
Net income from sales of inventory$0
Miscellaneous revenues$8,097
Total revenues$1,855,959

Form 990s for Legal Momentum

Fiscal year endingDate received by IRSFormPDF link
2023-062023-12-20990View PDF
2022-062022-12-14990View PDF
2021-062021-12-30990View PDF
2020-062021-05-25990View PDF
2019-062020-01-28990View PDF
...and 9 more Form 990s
Data update history
February 5, 2024
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2023
December 26, 2023
Received grants
Identified 4 new grant, including a grant for $15,000 from St Louis Community Foundation
September 24, 2023
Received grants
Identified 2 new grant, including a grant for $102,000 from The Chicago Community Trust
July 22, 2023
Received grants
Identified 12 new grant, including a grant for $28,750 from Mary Jane Wahl Gearns Foundation
July 16, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2022
Nonprofit Types
Human rights organizationsLegal service nonprofitsCivil rights and social justice organizationsCharities
Issues
EducationWomen and girlsHuman rightsLegal services
Characteristics
LobbyingFundraising eventsNational levelReceives government fundingEndowed supportTax deductible donations
General information
Address
32 Broadway Suite 1801
New York, NY 10004
Metro area
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA
County
New York County, NY
Website URL
legalmomentum.org/ 
Phone
(212) 925-6635
Facebook page
LegalMomentum 
Twitter profile
@legalmomentum 
IRS details
EIN
23-7085442
Fiscal year end
June
Taxreturn type
Form 990
Year formed
1970
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
R24: Womens Rights
NAICS code, primary
5411: Legal Services
Parent/child status
Independent
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