The Lawfare Project

United States organisation (IRS EIN 27-2402908), also recorded as Lawfare Project Inc and as The Lawfare Project

The Lawfare Project
Type	501(c)(3) organisation
Registration ID	IRS EIN 27-2402908
Location	New York, New York, United States
Website	https://www.thelawfareproject.org/

The Lawfare Project (also recorded on the official website as The Lawfare Project, and on official Internal Revenue Service records as Lawfare Project Inc) is a United States organisation. The official website, at https://www.thelawfareproject.org/, uses the heading The Lawfare Project. The official homepage states: “The Lawfare Project is the legal arm of the Jewish community. It provides pro bono legal services to protect the civil and human rights of the Jewish people worldwide.” The official name-forms are stated as the sources give them and are not collapsed.

The official Mission page states: “We are a global network of legal professionals who contribute our skills, time and expertise to defending the civil and human rights of the Jewish people, and fighting discrimination wherever we see it.” The official homepage records that “Within the past few years, The Lawfare Project has pursued more than 150 different legal actions and initiatives,” that it has “brought legal actions and engaged in legal initiatives around the world, including in the U.S., Spain, France, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, the United Kingdom, Qatar, Switzerland, and Germany,” and that “Since our founding, we have recruited more than 900 attorneys.” Those official wordings and figures are stated as the official pages give them.

The official Our Team page records Brooke Goldstein as Founder & Executive Director. The same official page records Benjamin Ryberg as Chief Operating Officer & Director of Research, Ziporah Reich as Director of Litigation, and Gerard Filitti as Senior Counsel. Under the heading Board of Directors, it records Marilyn Chinitz, Michele Lee Fine, Brooke Goldstein, Henry Shiner and Alison Katz Wolfson. Those official titles and name-forms are stated as the official page gives them and are not collapsed with the officer titles on the official IRS extracts below.

Official Internal Revenue Service records compiled by ProPublica list the organisation as Lawfare Project Inc, of New York, New York, with employer identification number 27-2402908, a tax exemption issued in April 2011, and designation as a 501(c)(3) organisation in the category International, Foreign Affairs and National Security / International Human Rights (NTEE). The official legal name-form and the April 2011 tax-exemption date are stated as the compilation gives them and are not collapsed with the official website name-forms recorded above.

For the fiscal year ending December 2024, filed on 13 November 2025, the official Form 990 extract records revenue of $4,173,110, expenses of $4,301,358, contributions of $3,965,424, total assets of $4,859,172, total liabilities of $171,582 and net assets of $4,687,590. The same extract names Brooke Goldstein as Executive Director And President, with compensation of $375,000, and Michele Lee Fine as Board Chair, with compensation of $0. For the fiscal year ending December 2023, filed on 15 November 2024, the extract records revenue of $3,674,570, expenses of $3,441,405, contributions of $3,474,081, total assets of $5,051,462, total liabilities of $235,624 and net assets of $4,815,838, and again names Brooke Goldstein as Executive Director And President, with compensation of $315,000, and Michele Lee Fine as Board Chair, with compensation of $0. Those official titles, name-forms, dates and figures are all stated as the extracts give them and are not collapsed with one another or with the official Founder & Executive Director title recorded above.

External links

• The Lawfare Project, official website
• ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, official IRS records for EIN 27-2402908