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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by DC BAR PRO BONO CENTER.

Totals

Total revenue
$5,171,563
Total expenses
$4,645,507
Contributions and grants received
$5,124,680
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$44,025
Investment income
$8,326
Other revenue
-$5,468
Total assets, end of year
$8,469,933
Total liabilities, end of year
$1,233,112
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$7,236,821
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$3,200,947
Management and general expenses
$1,115,563
Fundraising expenses
$328,997
Program service expenses (Part III)
$3,200,947

Program services were 68.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $8,752

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $991,720

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $4,124,208

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Other Fees & Services

    total $27,636 · related or exempt $27,636

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Admissions

    total $14,425 · related or exempt $14,425

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $1,964 · related or exempt $1,964

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $50,453 · excluded $50,453

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $1,508,036

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $1,550,163

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities -$42,127

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total -$42,127 · excluded -$42,127

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $63,327

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $68,795

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$5,468 · excluded -$5,468

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $1,046,800 · program services $590,010 · management and general $337,502 · fundraising $119,288

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $1,629,171 · program services $1,339,817 · management and general $244,499 · fundraising $44,855

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $171,841 · program services $138,374 · management and general $27,008 · fundraising $6,459

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $278,805 · program services $212,527 · management and general $52,675 · fundraising $13,603

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $198,808 · program services $145,021 · management and general $42,074 · fundraising $11,713

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $165,028 · program services $37,858 · management and general $127,170

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $68,541 · program services $18,350 · management and general $12,344 · fundraising $37,847

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $41,049 · program services $41,049

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $328,038 · program services $289,501 · management and general $16,696 · fundraising $21,841

  • 17 · Travel

    total $26,891 · program services $20,190 · management and general $6,368 · fundraising $333

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $34,059 · program services $24,253 · management and general $9,396 · fundraising $410

  • 24a · Other expenses: Food

    total $3,496 · program services $2,771 · management and general $725 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Professional Fees

    total $233,742 · program services $179,055 · management and general $18,255 · fundraising $36,432

  • 24c · Other expenses: Other Fees, Admin Allocation

    total $352,889 · program services $150,660 · management and general $166,013 · fundraising $36,216

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $66,349 · program services $11,511 · management and general $54,838 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $124,787 · end of year $137,038

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $300,856 · end of year $168,436

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $2,996,706 · end of year $3,546,127

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $3,500 · end of year $3,500

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $43,012

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $43,012

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $2,748,554 · end of year $3,426,965

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $1,456,265 · end of year $1,187,867

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $311,007 · end of year $401,491

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $1,010,684 · end of year $831,621

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $5,023,328 · end of year $5,715,117

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,285,649 · end of year $1,521,704

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center provides free legal services through pro bono lawyers to low-income individuals, nonprofit organizations, and small businesses in the District of Columbia. The Pro Bono Center also recruits and trains lawyers and law firms to provide business and transactional legal services to community-based non-profit organizations and small, disadvantaged businesses.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center provides free legal services through pro bono lawyers to low-income individuals, nonprofit organizations and small businesses in the District of Columbia. The Pro Bono Center also recruits and trains lawyers and law firms to provide business and transactional legal services to community-based non-profit organizations and small, disadvantaged businesses.

  • Legal Assistance for Low-Income Individuals: The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center recruits, trains, and supports volunteer lawyers who provide legal information, advice, and/or representation in housing, family law, public benefits, personal injury defense, bankruptcy, employment, immigration, and consumer law matters. In FY23, the Center provided ongoing full representation to 218 new clients on civil legal matters and same-day representation to 156 litigants in the Landlord Tenant Branch of D.C. Superior Court through its eviction defense program. The Center also provided legal advice and referrals at community-based clinics where 191 individuals received legal assistance on a range of civil legal issues and an additional 265 individuals received assistance on immigration matters. Through the Landlord Tenant Legal Assistance Network, the Center assisted an additional 2,328 individuals with housing matters; and through the Family Law Assistance Network, the Center assisted 243 individuals in Superior Court domestic relations proceedings. Finally, the Center maintains Superior Court-based resource centers to serve pro se litigants in landlord-tenant matters. In FY23, these centers served 1,057 people.

    Expenses $460,017 · Revenue $1,964

  • Nonprofit and Small Business (NPSB) Legal Assistance Programs: The NPSB Programs provide brief legal advice, legal training, and match nonprofit organizations and small business owners with pro bono counsel to meet their transactional and business law needs. In FY23, NPSB matched 48 nonprofits with ongoing pro bono counsel and provided 393 nonprofits with one-on-one brief advice via legal clinics and weekly "Office Hours" consultations. NPSB additionally served 584 small business owners throughout the year via its small business brief advice legal clinics. Finally, NPSB provided legal training to 5,587 nonprofit and small business representatives, and to the volunteer attorneys that assist them on relevant business law topics.

    Expenses $564,398 · Revenue $14,425

  • Online and Other Projects: In FY23, the Pro Bono Center provided digital services that included LawHelp.org/DC, a website that provides legal and referral information to the general public; the Legal Information Help Line, which provides recorded legal information 24 hours a day in multiple languages; and Probono.net/dc, a free online resource for pro bono lawyers and legal services attorneys with more than 9,300 registered users. In FY23, there were over 1.37 million page views on LawHelp.org/DC and the Help Line answered 17,407 calls.

    Expenses $461,714

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Robert Spagnoletti

    Executive Vice President

    Total calculated
    $458,211
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $380,084
    Other
    $78,127
    Hours/week
    3 + 32 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $377,312 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported + $2,772 related
    Deferred
    not reported + $47,885 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $30,242 related
    Filer's total
    not reported + $458,211 related
  • Kelli Neptune

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $164,565
    From this org
    $125,078
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,487
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $124,446
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $632
    Deferred
    $24,229
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,258
    Filer's total
    $164,565
  • Darryl Maxwell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $238,381
    From this org
    $189,138
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $49,243
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $188,508
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $630
    Deferred
    $21,820
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,423
    Filer's total
    $238,381
  • Angela Boone

    Director

    Total calculated
    $166,993
    From this org
    $140,167
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,826
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $138,379
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $1,788
    Deferred
    $14,872
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,954
    Filer's total
    $166,993
  • Gabriella Lewis-White

    Director

    Total calculated
    $146,658
    From this org
    $123,110
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,548
    Hours/week
    35
  • Jason Qu

    Senior Managing Attorney

    Total calculated
    $120,932
    From this org
    $108,829
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,103
    Hours/week
    35
  • Adrian Gottshall

    Director

    Total calculated
    $153,119
    From this org
    $108,318
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $44,801
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $108,007
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $311
    Deferred
    $13,235
    Nontaxable benefits
    $31,566
    Filer's total
    $153,119
  • Ellen Jakovic

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 10 related
  • Charles Lowery Jr

    President-Elect

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 5 related
  • Shayan Davoudi

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 1.5 related
  • Shaun Snyder

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 1.5 related
  • Catherine Bertram

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.75 related
  • Rebecca Cady

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.75 related
  • Karen Newton Cole

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.75 related
  • Brian Flowers

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.75 related
  • Elizabeth Gere

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.75 related
  • Janene Jackson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.75 related
  • Natalie Koss

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.75 related
  • Megan Lacchini

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.75 related
  • Andrea Mangones

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.75 related
  • Fatema Merchant

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.75 related
  • Steven Miller

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.75 related
  • Roger Lu Phillips

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.75 related
  • Ramya Ravindran

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.75 related
  • Chad Sarchio

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.75 related
  • Diane Seltzer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.75 related
  • Courtney Weiner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3 + 0.75 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

None.

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Part I, Line 3
Establishment of compensation: All compensation is determined and paid by the District of Columbia Bar ("D.C. BAR"), a related section 115 organization that acts as the payroll agent for the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center. The D.C. Bar uses the following methods to establish the compensation of the Pro Bono Center's CEO/Executive Director: Compensation survey/study, independent compensation consultant, Form 990 of other organizations, and in consultation with the Board and/or Compensation Committee.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

  • District of Columbia Bar

    115 · Mandatory Bar · DC

    Directly controlled by NA

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
13 May 2024
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202431359349304508

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