Form 990-EZ for tax year 2024
Filed by LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR WASHINGTON SCHOOL.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $121,325
- Total expenses
- $120,457
- Contributions and grants received
- $121,323
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Membership dues (line 3)
- $0
- Investment income (line 4)
- $2
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- $0
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- $0
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- $0
- Other revenue (line 8)
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $86,097
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $86,097
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $110,464
Program services were 91.7% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2024
Primary exempt purpose
Education and research
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Research and public education on contamination at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, including commenting on cleanup plans and agreements. Research and comments include focus on potential exposures to contamination and assessing human health and ecological risks from contamination; and potential impacts from leaking High Level Nuclear Waste tanks. Research and education on risks with special attention to the risks to Native Americans exercising Treaty rights to utilize resources and to live along the Columbia River. Participation in the Hanford Advisory Board, which informs research and is part of our comment program. Extensive research and comments on numerous highly complex proposals informed our development of comment guides and preparation of workshops for the public.
Expenses $55,232
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Providing law, public health (MPH) and undergraduate students with education, training and externships in environmental cleanup, environmental health and assessing health and environmental effects, with an emphasis on protecting populations with greatest risks related to Hanford. Educate students on cleanup, risk assessment, public health and tribal law topics, including full time summer law student program. Students collaborate with affected Tribes in developing comments on cleanup plans and risk, and also participate in public education. Promote open government in Washington State including training students in open government law, public outreach with coalition for open government. Research and education on public records and open government.
Expenses $44,186
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Conducting workshops and public meetings along with educational programming at events to educate and involve the public in Hanford cleanup decisions. Held workshops and developed guides for the public on our research relating to High Level Nuclear Waste tank cleanup program, exposure risks and Hanford Cleanup Strategic Plan. Prepared guides and workshops to assist the public to comment on High Level Waste cleanup, Hanford Cleanup 5 Year Strategic Plan, produced Report Card and Comment Guide. Our outreach, with "comment guides" (previously called 'citizens' guides") to commenting (reviewed for accuracy by Washington State and other experts) and workshops were responsible for generating hundreds of comments and emails to officials. Participation in other public forums and assisting Tribes and other high risk populations in educational outreach.
Expenses $11,046
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Gerald Pollet
Executive Director, Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 18
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Amber Waldref
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Sandy Polishuk
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Helen Wheatley PhD
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Dirk Dunning RPCE
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Peggy Maze Johnson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ted Hunter
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Janet Miller
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Alfonso Contreras
Director, Hanford Advisory Board co-member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 9 May 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.0
- Source object
- 202521309349201102
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