Clause 40 Foundation is a nonpartisan organization whose mission is to honor, preserve, and promote the due process rights guaranteed in the u.s. Constitution through public education, events, research, litigation, and more. In the american criminal legal system, these constitutional principles encompass a number of specific issues including: the right to have notice of the nation's criminal laws; the right to present evidence; the freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures; the right to a fair and impartial grand jury; the right to a meaningful opportunity to be heard by an unbiased tribunal in a timely manner; and the right to be represented by counsel. Clause 40 Foundation honors, preserves, and promotes these core constitutional american values through its own educational and charitable activities, as well as through collaboration on projects with other nonprofits, academic institutions, and individuals.

501(c)(3) charity; gifts are tax-deductible.
Run by 10 volunteers and 1 employee.
Mission: Form 990 Part I, line 1 · Status: IRS Pub. 78 · People: Part I, lines 5–6

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FY2024 · Form 990-EZIndependent: from IRS data, not the org
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IRS status
501(c)(3)
not on the IRS revocation list
Looks good: listed by the IRS and not on the revocation list.
IRS BMF · Auto-Revocation List
Tax-deductible gifts
Yes
Donations are tax-deductible
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IRS Pub. 78 · IRS BMF
Latest return
FY2024
latest Form 990-EZ
Looks good: the latest return is for FY2024, 2 tax years back; within 2 tax years.
IRS e-file · Filing history
Surplus or deficit
1 of 4
filings with a surplus
Average deficit $19K a year · 12% of revenue · last 4 filings
Concern: a surplus in 1 of the last 4 filings.
Pt I · Ln 19 · 4 filings
Named funders
2
named funders · $40K
Fine: 2 funders name it on their filings; under 3.
Funders’ Sch. I, 990-PF
Liabilities
$154K
total owed
No data yet: the filing does not give total assets.
Pt X · Ln 26
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Revenue
$67K
-32% vs prior year
Net assets
−$128K
By yearFY2020–FY2024
Revenue
$67K
FY2024▼ -32%
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Revenue by fiscal year
FY2020$342K
FY2021$87K
FY2022$116K
FY2023$100K
FY2024$67K
Expenses
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FY2024
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Expenses by fiscal year
FY2020$116K
FY2021$192K
FY2022$299K
FY2023$114K
FY2024Not on file
Net assets
−$128K
FY2024<0.01%
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Net assets by fiscal year
FY2020$174K
FY2021$69K
FY2022−$113K
FY2023−$128K
FY2024−$128K

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Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2024. IRS ruling in Jan 2020.

IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File

Who runs it and what they're paid

8 people listed on the 990-EZ.

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Programs and updates

Educates and advocates to protect constitutional due process rights in the legal system.

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3 programs · $46K · in their own filed words · FY2023
01

Policy Work

Through creating and funding the creation of reports, white papers, legal backgrounders, longer research publications, blogs, guides, treatises, case studies, op-eds, social and traditional media and communications, and e-alerts, clause 40 foundation creates and supports original nonpartisan analysis, study, research, and writing to…

$31Kprogram expense
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Events

Through programs, seminars, lectures, film screenings, book events, and continuing legal education (cle) events, the foundation provides education nationwide to academics, lawyers, advocates, journalists, and the general public at large with respect to a wide range of criminal law constitutional due process concerns.

$12Kprogram expense
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Litigation

Clause 40 foundation directs and supports efforts to preserve procedural due process rights through litigation, particularly through the filing or funding of amicus or "friend of the court" legal briefs.

$2Kprogram expense

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Who pays for it.

From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.

Grants

Schedule I · received and paid
Grants received · FY2024
Total grants receivedfrom 2 funders$40K
Grants paid · 1 grant · $50K · 2022–2022
Due Process InstituteDC · FY2022$50,000

By the numbers

The FY2024 990-EZ, line by line.

1The main four
Money in
$67K
Other income$67K
Owns and owes
−$128K
net assets
Liabilities$154K
People
8
listed
Paid0
2In more detail
Revenue in detail
Other income$67K
Total revenue$67K
Assets in detailEnd of year
Liabilities$154K
Net assets−$128K
Operations
Employees1
Volunteers10
Fiscal year endsDecember

Filing history

YearMoney inMoney outIn minus outNet assetsDownload
FY2024 Latest Viewing $67K−$128K 990 PDF
FY2023 $100K$114K−$14K−$128K 990 PDF
FY2022 $116K$299K−$182K−$113K 990 PDF
FY2021 $87K$192K−$104K$69K 990 PDF
FY2020 $342K$116K$226K$174K 990 PDF

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Schedules filed Part IV

III · Programs R · Related orgs G · Fundraising L · Interested persons A · Public support

Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2024 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File

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