Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$4,330,772

Total expenses

$4,187,861

Contributions and grants received

$2,201,493

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$2,121,698

Investment income

$7,581

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$1,111,244

Total liabilities, end of year

$226,961

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$884,283

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$3,818,977

Management and general expenses

$368,884

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$3,818,977

Program services were 91.2% 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.

Mission and programs · 2024

• LEGAL SERVICES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS - THE LEGAL SERVICES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS PROGRAM FOCUSES ON LATINO POPULATION IN DELAWARE. WHILE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CROSSES ALL SOCIO-ECONOMIC LINES, IT IS ESPECIALLY HIGH AMONG POVERTY CLIENTS. ATTORNEY'S MEET WITH CLIENTS AT THE LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER IN WILMINGTON AS WELL AS OTHER LOCATIONS.

  Expenses $315,898 · Revenue $315,898

• PFA PRO BONO PROGRAM - THROUGH THE PRO BONO PROGRAM, OUR GOAL IS TO EVALUATE AS MANY PFA CASES EACH WEEK AS POSSIBLE AND PLACE THE MOST MERITORIOUS CASES PRIOR TO THE HEARING WITH THE VOLUNTEER ATTORNEYS. DURING THE DAYS LEADING UP TO EACH PFA DAY, THE DPBP SPENDS TIME DAILY IN PREPARATION FOR PFA DAY. THIS INCLUDES TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS WITH PROSPECTIVE CLIENTS AND VOLUNTEER ATTORNEYS ABOUT THEIR CASES, REVIEW OF THE NEED TO BRING IN WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE, AND REVIEW OF PETITIONS, POLICE REPORTS, AND OTHER DOCUMENTS PROVIDED TO DVLS BY VICTIMS, THEIR ADVOCATES AND OTHERS.

  Expenses $112,200 · Revenue $112,200

• RIGHT TO REPRESENTATION - DELAWARE'S THREE LEGAL AID AGENCIES HAVE JOINED FORCES TO FORM THE EVICTION DEFENSE PROGRAM (EDP). THROUH THE COMBINED LEGAL EXPERTISE OF CLASI, DVLS, AND LSCD, THE EDP FUNCTIONS AS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT AMONG THE AGENCIES. THE PROJECT'S VISION IS SIMPLE, KEEP TENANTS HOUSED. THE LEGAL PROCESSES SURROUNDING EVICTION ARE DAUNTING, AND THE REALITY IS THAT MANY RENTERS ARE UNAWARE OF THE RESCOURCES AVAILABLE TO ASSIST THEM. THE GOAL IS TO CONNECT RENTERS TO THE LEGAL RESCOURCES. UTILIZING ATTORNEYS AND QUALIFIED TENANT ADVOCATES TO PROVIDE REPRESENTATION FOR TENANTS.

  Expenses $1,543,973 · Revenue $1,693,600

• DVLS IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO DELIVER PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES TO NEEDY DELAWAREANS. EACH CLIENT, OTHER THAN VICTIMS OF CRIME, MUST MEET A PERCENTAGE OF THE OFFICIAL POVERTY THRESHOLD, AS DEFINED EACH YEAR BY THE U.S. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET - FEDERAL POVERTY STANDARDS (45 C.F.R. PART 1611) FOR INCOME ELIGIBILITY. DVLS TARGETS THOSE HAVING INCOMES AT OR BELOW 125% OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY LEVEL. A PERSON WHOSE GROSS INCOME EXCEEDS 125% OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY LIMIT, BUT DOES NOT EXCEED 200% OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY LIMIT MAY IN CERTAIN CASES BE PROVIDED LEGAL ASSISTANCE. CERTAIN CLIENTS, SUCH AS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTOMS, THOSE OVER 60 YEARS OF AGE AND THE TERMINALLY ILL, FACE THE LESS RESTRICTIVE STANDARD OF 200% OF THE POVERTY LEVEL. IN ADDITION, DVLS CLIENTS MUST HAVE A MERITORIOUS CIVIL LEGAL PROBLEM THAT IS NOT FEE GENERATING. CASES MEETING THESE CRITERIA ARE PLACED WITH ONE OF THE AGENCY'S PRO BONO ATTORNEYS, STAFF OR LAW STUDENTS. LEGAL REPRESENTATION RANGES FROM BRIEF CONSULTATIONS TO LITIGATION. THE CLIENTS DVLS SERVES ARE EACH UNIQUE, BUT ONE CHARACTERISTIC THEY SHARE IS THAT THEY HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO TURN FOR LEGAL ASSISTANCE. DVLS VOLUNTEER ATTORNEYS, STAFF AND LAW STUDENTS ENSURE THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR FAMILIES RECEIVE QUALITY LEGAL SERVICES AT NO COST. IN ADDITION TO DIRECT REPRESENTATION OF CLIENTS, DVLS HAS VOLUNTEERS WHO ACT AS CONSULTANTS AND MENTORS FOR OTHER VOLUNTEER ATTORNEYS.

  Expenses $1,846,906

• THE LEGAL SERVICES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS PROGRAM FOCUSES ON COMMUNITY OUTREACH IN DELAWARE. WHILE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CROSSES ALL SOCIO-ECONOMIC LINES, IT IS ESPECIALLY HIGH AMONG POVERTY LEVEL CLIENTS. ATTORNEY'S MEET WITH CLIENTS AT THE LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER IN WILMINGTON AS WELL AS OTHER LOCATIONS

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

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.

• DELAWARE STATE BAR ASSOCIATION

  501(C)(3) · SEE SCHEDULE O · DE · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by SEE FORM 990 SCH R PART VII

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

24 February 2026

IRS schema version

2024v5.5

Source object

202640559349300119

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