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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by EARL CARL INSTITUTE FOR LEGAL AND SOCIAL POLICY INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,167,175
Total expenses
$498,162
Contributions and grants received
$1,167,175
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$912,036
Total liabilities, end of year
-$298
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$912,334
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$466,059
Management and general expenses
$32,103
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
not reported

Program services were 93.6% 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.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,167,175

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: Donation Revenue

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: Federal Taxes (941/943/944)

    total $401 · management and general $401

  • 24b · Other expenses: Sponsorship

    total $75 · management and general $75

  • 24c · Other expenses: Other Personnel Salary OPS

    total $3,951 · program services $3,951

  • 24d · Other expenses: Payroll Service Fee PSF

    total $307 · management and general $307

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $493,428 · program services $462,108 · management and general $31,320 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $610,596 · end of year $907,937

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

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

    $4,099

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $4,099 · end of year $4,099

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $637 · end of year -$298

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $236,934 · end of year $171,417

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    end of year $570,116

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The mission of the institute is to empower underserved anddisenfranchised communities by addressing systemic social issuesthrough legal representation,research, education and advocacy.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The mission of the Institute is to empower underserved and disenfranchised communities by addressing systmatic social issues through legal representation,research,education and advocacy

  • : The goal is to promote housing stability and to increase generational wealth through the prevention of land loss as a result of failure to plan estates, foreclosures, clouds on title to property/land, and general inheritance issues and eviction defense to ensure housing stability. The program provides comprehensive legal services including heirship proceedings, estate planning, foreclosure prevention, and eviction defense. In 2024, the program expanded its community outreach through neighborhood canvassing to identify families at risk of land loss and connect them with legal services.

    Revenue $180,594

  • Revenue $150,000

  • Revenue $150,000

  • Fort Bend County Civil Legal Services Project (providing civil legal services to low to moderate income residents of Fort Bend County and empowering self-represented litigants)

    Revenue $140,000

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

Listed in Part VII

  • Sherea McKenzie

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bill C Littlejohn

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carlton Perkins

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • McKen Carrington

    Assistant Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kesha Amos

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Samuel Louis

    Assistant Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marguerite Butler

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James Douglas

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Constance Fain

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Warrington Goudeau

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Theophilus Theo Herrington

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dannye Holley

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Prudence Smith

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael O Adams

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marcus Esther

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Charisse Coleman

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gail Mebane

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kevin A Murray

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Yvette Colbert

    Student Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jasmine Dolcine

    Student Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Laisha Harris

    Student Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
1 May 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202542959349300619

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