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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,334,389
Total expenses
$1,037,382
Contributions and grants received
$1,172,541
Grants paid
$133,306
Program service revenue
$159,349
Investment income
$1,622
Other revenue
$877
Total assets, end of year
$1,273,592
Total liabilities, end of year
$117,365
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,156,227
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$935,928
Management and general expenses
$85,342
Fundraising expenses
$16,112
Program service expenses (Part III)
$935,928

Program services were 90.2% 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

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $0

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $0

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $0

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $240,291

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $932,250

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $0

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Fees for Service

    total $159,349 · related or exempt $159,349 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $1,622 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $1,622

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: Prior period adjustments

    total $877 · related or exempt $877 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $877

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $40,000 · program services $40,000

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $93,306 · program services $93,306

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $207,443 · program services $186,910 · management and general $12,248 · fundraising $8,285

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $249,935 · program services $205,152 · management and general $40,106 · fundraising $4,677

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $24,111 · program services $22,708 · management and general $1,011 · fundraising $392

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $34,324 · program services $29,518 · management and general $3,776 · fundraising $1,030

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $36,121 · program services $36,121 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $21,866 · program services $0 · management and general $21,866 · fundraising $0

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $206,497 · program services $206,497 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $2,754 · program services $2,368 · management and general $303 · fundraising $83

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $18,969 · program services $16,435 · management and general $1,991 · fundraising $543

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $1,034 · program services $889 · management and general $114 · fundraising $31

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $9,331 · program services $8,028 · management and general $1,024 · fundraising $279

  • 17 · Travel

    total $1,767 · program services $1,520 · management and general $194 · fundraising $53

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $12,421 · program services $11,909 · management and general $402 · fundraising $110

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $9,672 · program services $8,318 · management and general $1,064 · fundraising $290

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $12,707 · program services $11,125 · management and general $1,243 · fundraising $339

  • 24a · Other expenses: Property Acquisition, Maintance, Taxes and Fees

    total $29,134 · program services $29,134 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Soccer Expenses

    total $22,937 · program services $22,937 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24c · Other expenses: Materials for clean up day

    total $3,053 · program services $3,053 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $202,429 · end of year $178,663

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $344,109 · end of year $699,913

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $174,642 · end of year $67,536

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $30,000 · end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $3,994 · end of year $15,852

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

    $327,228

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

    $15,600

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $321,300 · end of year $311,628

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $26,362 · end of year $85,820

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $190,894 · end of year $31,545

  • 20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 21 · Escrow or custodial account liability

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $400,094 · end of year $392,980

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $459,124 · end of year $763,247

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

NLS performs legal work to allow blighted and abandoned urban core properties to be turned into good quality housing for low income families. We also assist and support the efforts of neighborhood organizations in the urban core area to address abandoned housing issues.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Neighborhood Legal Support (NLS) mission is to provide legal assistance and other support to empower urban core neighborhoods to grow stronger.

  • For the last six years, Neighborhood Legal Support of Kansas City has run a focused community development project in the Lykins Neighborhood in the Historic Northeast District of Kansas City. We have organized over 40 project partners to bring a wide array of resources to the neighborhood to remediate blight. Working with residents, police, City codes inspectors and numerous other partners, we identify blighted and abandoned homes in the neighborhood. We then bring litigation to either require the existing owners of the properties to convert them into good quality homes or to have a rehabber selected by the neighborhood do so. The entire process is focused on empowerment of the neighborhood residents. The residents, for example, chose the focus area and decide which rehabbers will be awarded which properties to develop. Neighborhood residents make all major project decisions. We see our role as empowering neighborhood residents, to the greatest extent possible, to implement their vision for community development in their neighborhood. The project has been successful. Some highlights of the project to date, we have acquired over 50 blighted properties in the neighborhood for participating rehabbers and builders; we have litigation pending to acquire 40 additional properties; we have agreements with 16 additional property owners to rehab their properties themselves; and we have an option Agreement with the City that allows the neighborhood to purchase 19 additional vacant properties that were formerly owned by the Land Bank. All told there are over 140 properties in the project. Due to the success of the project, we have had to expand our focus area twice. Now the focus area includes the entire Lykins Neighborhood, and, as of the end of November 2022, we had litigation pending to acquire all remaining blighted and abandoned houses in the neighborhood. Indeed, we now have a bounty program in which if any neighborhood resident can find a property in Lykins that is blighted and abandoned and not part of the project, we will pay them $100. Our goal is to have the remaining blighted and abandoned houses completely rehabbed by the end of 2025. Violent crime in Lykins is down by more than 20% in the last three years. Although there are numerous causes of this, we believe that the substantial reduction of blight in the neighborhood is one of the primary causes; and, in 2020, the American Planners Association recognized the Lykins Focused Community Development Project as the Outstanding Community Planning Initiative for 2020 for the State of Missouri.

    Expenses $935,928 · Grants $191,452 · Revenue $159,349

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Alissa Cannady

    Deputy Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $112,522
    From this org
    $104,456
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,066
    Hours/week
    40

  • Gregg Lombardi

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $94,219
    From this org
    $77,096
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,123
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kathy Persley

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Terrence Waldren

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ward Katz

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Schulte

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Todd Lieberman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Martha Gershun

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Miguel Terreros

    Director

    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

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
1 October 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202422789349300812

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