2026-03-20T05:06:34-07:00 2025-12-31 161439025 SKROBACZ & CO CPAS PC 5678 Main Street WILLIAMSVILLE NY 14221 990 2025-01-01 821713227 LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC LPEC 7166476047 725 HERTEL AVENUE 526 BUFFALO NY 14207 MARTHA MCCLUSKEY Treasurer 2026-03-20 true JOHN R ARMSTRONG P01058765 7166332117 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X MARTHA MCCLUSKEY 725 HERTEL AVENUE 526 BUFFALO NY 142077021 207058 false X WWW.LPECOLLECTIVE.ORG X 2017 NY The LPE Collective organizes workshops, a scholarly publication, and other activities bringing together academics and allies committed to understanding and changing the ways law shapes, and is shaped by, struggles for power and value. 6 5 1 50 0 132154 206931 20549 0 127 0 152703 207058 17500 0 0 33350 111146 11720 0 0 124159 118288 186729 229434 -34026 -22376 177039 154960 297 177039 154663 X The LPE Collective organizes workshops, a scholarly publication, and other activities bringing together academics and allies committed to understanding and changing the ways law shapes, and is shaped by, struggles for power and value. true true 54710 With grant support from the University of California Berkeley School of Law, the LPE Collective produces the Journal of Law and Political Economy, which published four issues in 2025, including two special issues on climate change topics. The 2025 issues featured 22 articles, 9 book reviews and several essays, generating over 65,000 online views and downloads. The Journal also hosted two graduate student fellows. 14434 In July 2025, we co-organized and co-produced the Global Law and Political Economy Summer Academy, an intensive skill-building workshop for 20 students and faculty over four days in Roccella Jonica, Italy. The program featured roundtable discussions, writing workshops, a cultural excursion, a case study session, master class, and career mentorship sessions. 8937 As part of our Global LPE Network program, the LPE Collective supported the Law and Society Associations Collaborative Research Network on Law and Political Economy by organizing over 219 participants across 56 panels and roundtables for that organizations May 2025 annual meeting in Chicago, along with an informal networking event. We also produced a separate intensive full day workshop at the University of Chicago, the Law and Political Economy of Social Reproduction, with four panels of scholars and over 30 participants. 8703 The LPE Collective collaboratively produced two student-centered workshops in the third year of our ongoing APPEAL series, Heterodox Economics Meets Law and Political Economy. In April 2025, the workshop convened in New Haven, CT featuring a scholarly panel on Third World Internationalism, a masterclass on methods in Law and Political Economy, and emerging scholar paper presentations. In November 2025, this workshop convened at John Jay College in New York City with over 90 participants, featuring lectures on the politics and democratizing possibilities of antitrust and accounting, a methodology session, and emerging scholars research presentations. 6061 In July 2025, our Global LPE Network program produced an intensive writing workshop at McGill University in Montreal for 20 scholars focused on interdisciplinary analysis of socioeconomic policy in Latin America, North America, and other regions. The event included an informal networking gathering and a business meeting of leaders in the Law and Political Economy in the field to explore future international and interdisciplinary collaborations. 5217 This was the first full year sponsoring and editing the Law and Political Economy ejournal, which we launched in fall 2024 as part of the Legal Scholarship Network Social Science Research Network (SSRN) research paper series. This ejournal compiles abstracts recent LPE papers monthly from many disciplines and global regions, featuring over 30 papers monthly. Through our APPEAL program, we held 6 sessions of our online reading and discussion series, What is Capitalism, which has been ongoing since 2020. 19981 98062 true true false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 0 0 false 1 false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 6 5 false false true true true true false true true false false true true true true false false true true false NY MARTHA MCCLUSKEY 7166476047 725 HERTEL AVENUE BUFFALO NY 142077021 ERIC GEORGE BOARD MEMBER 20.00 0.00 X 23628 0 0 JAMES J VARELLAS BOARD MEMBER 20.00 0.00 X 15000 0 0 JOHN HASKELL President 10.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 MARTHA MCCLUSKEY Treasurer 25.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 MAJ GRASTEN BOARD MEMBER 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JAMES MOUDUD BOARD MEMBER 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 38628 0 false false false 0 1466 205465 206931 0 127 127 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 207058 127 0 0 0 0 38628 38628 0 62183 12000 50183 0 0 10335 10335 0 7345 7345 9340 9340 0 0 0 5225 5225 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 378 378 PROGRAM CONTRACTORS 57026 48076 8950 CONFERENCES EXPENSE 32761 32761 MERCHANT ACCOUNT FEES 3819 3819 OFFICE EXPENSE 1082 1082 1312 1312 229434 98062 131372 0 171102 84050 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5937 0 0 0 0 0 0 70910 177039 154960 297 0 297 X 177039 154663 177039 154663 177039 154960 -22376 X false false false X 27340 120637 149662 130728 204281 632648 275 8475 20549 29299 0 0 0 27340 120912 158137 151277 204281 661947 25000 35000 15000 35000 110000 0 25000 35000 15000 35000 110000 551947 0 0 0 127 127 27340 120912 158137 151277 204408 662074 0.83370 0.79580 0.00000 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED FUNDS RECEIVABLE 70910 70910 true Quebec 0 1 Outreach to scholars Program development 23628 1 1 23628 23628 false false false false false false Part III, Line 1 - Estimated Number of Recipients One Form 990, Part III, Line 2 As part of the December 2024 merger, the LPE Collective Inc. combined activities of three groups, including the former ClassCrits Inc., the former Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law, Inc. (APPEAL) and an unincorporated academic group, the Global LPE Network. See the list of 2025 program services. Form 990, Part III, Line 3 During 2025, the LPE Collective Inc. provided staff and infrastructure support for planning a 2026 conference as part of a ClassCrits series held most recently in 2022 and 2024. In late 2025, the LPE Collective ceased its role as the organizational home of that conference series. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 4 At the end of 2024, the Delaware nonprofit corporation ClassCrits, Inc. completed a long-planned merger with another 501c3 Delaware nonprofit, the Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and Law (APPEAL). The merger dissolved APPEAL as a separate nonprofit and established ClassCrits, Inc. as the surviving 501c3 corporation (EIN 82-1713227). The merger renamed that surviving corporation as the LPE Collective, Inc. and established a new Board of Directors and new corporate bylaws. Those bylaws specify that all assets carried over from the previous nonprofits are the property of the merged organization under governance of its Board and bylaws. That merger was completed with the filing of the Certification of Merger with the Delaware Secretary of State, with receipt confirmed by the Delaware Secretary of State on January 13, 2025. In the fall of 2024, prior to the merger, the Boards of Directors and membership of both organizations formally voted to approve this merger plan without dissent. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 5 On or about September 17, 2025, all the funds in the LPE Collectives operating bank account at the time, a total of $68,750.38, were withdrawn and transferred to a new bank account using our EIN but outside of our corporations control. An additional unauthorized amount of $4,000 was diverted from the account in October 2025. This action was taken by an individual who had been a Board member of one of the pre-merger nonprofits but who was not an officer or Board member of the corporation at any time in 2025 and who was not otherwise authorized by the corporation to withdraw funds or manage its finances, but who misrepresented her corporate authority to the bank. The LPE Collective bylaws prohibit anyone not authorized by the Board of Directors from withdrawing corporate funds or controlling corporate bank accounts. In addition, the bylaws specify that upon completion of the merger on December 23, 2024, all assets carried over from the pre-merger nonprofits became assets of the corporation governed by the LPE Collective Board of Directors. On September 19, 2025, the LPE Collective filed a fraud and identity theft complaint with the bank and actively followed up with extensive documentation of the corporate status. We continue to pursue various means to recover these corporate funds. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 The LPE Collective has classes of members allocated by designated affiliation in a Program that has complied with Board of Directors policies or by at-large affiliation. For each class, we further distinguish Associate Members who are non-voting and do not participate in governance and Voting Full Members, who are individuals who complete an annual online sign up or renewal and pay annual dues according to policies set by the Board of Directors. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The 990 is completed with input from individual Board members by email and phone. The final draft is circulated to the Board of Directors by email prior to filing, with an opportunity given to discuss questions or concerns individually or at a Board meeting. All Board members must confirm that they approve the 990 with no further questions or changes prior to filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The Board of Directors members must sign an annual conflicts of interest written disclosure form affirming that they have received and read the conflict of interest policy, and describing any conflicts of interest, including any compensation received from the LPE Collective, Inc. All compensation paid to Board of Directors members is approved by the Board of Directors by vote after review and deliberation at a meeting with the recipient Board member recused from the discussion and vote. The compensation rate must be comparable to similar professional services and the services must substantially contribute to the nonprofit corporations capacity to carry out its charitable activities. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a For the Executive Director, a committee of the Board reviewed comparable salaries from similar academic organizations and presented the proposed salary to the full Board for review, discussion and approval.For the Board services compensation and Journal editor stipend, the amount was similarly based on comparable professional pay and estimated hours and level of responsibility. The compensation was reviewed and discussed at meetings of the Board and relevant committees after recusing any Board member receiving the compensation Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The Corporation made its governing documents available to the public via its website. We did not post any financial statements or 990s as this was the first year as a newly merged organization under a new name. We did not post the conflicts of interest policy or 2025 conflicts disclosures on the website.