Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$7,810,161

Total expenses

$7,651,021

Contributions and grants received

$7,480,398

Grants paid

$1,352,055

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$28,577

Other revenue

$301,186

Total assets, end of year

$3,551,456

Total liabilities, end of year

$846,071

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$2,705,385

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$6,936,796

Management and general expenses

$714,225

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$6,936,796

Program services were 90.7% 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.

Mission and programs · 2024

• HOUSING LAW CENTER - RILS PROVIDES SUBSTANTIAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE IN THE HOUSING AREA INCLUDING: PROVIDING ADVICE AND REPRESENTATION TO CLIENTS IN EVICTION MATTERS CHALLENGING THE DENIAL OF ADMISSION TO PUBLIC AND SUBSIDIZED HOUSING DELIVERING LEGAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN THE COMMUNITY AND WORKING WITH LOW INCOME TENANT GROUPS TO PRESERVE AND/OR DEVELOP SUBSIDIZED HOUSING. THE STAFF OF THE FORECLOSURE PREVENTION PROJECT LITIGATE COMMON MORTGAGE-RELATED ISSUES AND USE BANKRUPTCY AS AN ADDITIONAL STRATEGY FOR HOME PRESERVATION. MAJOR LITIGATION OF PRE AND POST-FORECLOSURE IMPACT ISSUES, WITH THE NATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER, THE NATION'S LEADING EXPERTS ON FORECLOSURE ISSUES IS ENVISIONED. RILS FORECLOSURE PROJECT STAFF WILL ALSO REPRESENT TENANTS AFFECTED BY FORECLOSURE, EDUCATE BORROWERS AND TENANTS WHO RESIDE IN FORECLOSED PROPERTIES ABOUT THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS, AND HELP DEVELOP NEW INITIATIVES TO KEEP DEFAULTING BORROWERS AND TENANTS WHO RESIDE IN FORECLOSED PROPERTIES IN THEIR HOMES.

  Expenses $3,233,741 · Grants $1,184,455

• SAFE FAMILY PROJECT - THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF THE PROJECT IS TO PROVIDE FOR AND PROMOTE THE SAFETY OF FAMILIES THROUGH THE ADVICE, REFERRAL AND/OR REPRESENTATION OF VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN FAMILY COURT RESTRAINING ORDERS.

  Expenses $821,346

• FAMILY PRESERVATION PROJECT - THIS PROJECT FUNCTIONS AS AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT OF THE RHODE ISLAND FAMILY COURT CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM. THE PROJECT'S ATTORNEYS REPRESENT PARENTS WHO ARE FACING THE INVOLUNTARY TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS OR ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE, NEGLECT, OR DEPENDENCY THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT AGAINST THEM BY THE RI DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES.

  Expenses $760,094

• PRIVATE ATTORNEY INVOLVEMENT $167,600. FOR PRIVATE ATTORNEY INVOLVEMENT SEE SCH I PART II.

  Expenses $2,121,615 · Grants $167,600

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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

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

• RHODE ISLAND CENTER FOR JUSTICE

  $1,041,107

  EVICTION DEFENSE PROJECT

• RHODE ISLAND BAR ASSOCIATION

  $167,600

  VOLUNTEER LAWYER PROGRAM

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

13 May 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.1

Source object

202501339349304115

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