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MONTANA LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION

EIN 81-0298262 HELENA, MT

Revenue 2025
$9,944,686
Expenses 2025
$9,618,883

Program services were 85.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
Street
616 HELENA AVE STE 100

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • MORGAN DAKE

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES PATTEN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PROFESSOR CRAIG COWIE

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHAWN REAGOR

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DON SAUNDERS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HON JOHN LARSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARY REEVES

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PEGGY PROBASCO

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TERRYL MATT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATHLEEN JOHNSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SEAN MORRISON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MISTY DAVIS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NICOLE HAMILTON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SARAH RIDDLE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALISON PAUL

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $151,593
    From this org
    $136,732
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,861
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $136,732
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,362
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,499
    Filer's total
    $151,593

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 — 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $9,944,686
    Expenses
    $9,618,883
    Contributions
    $9,924,396
    Grants paid
    $2,725,210
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $9,976,481
    Expenses
    $9,812,255
    Contributions
    $9,963,826
    Grants paid
    $3,302,693
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,487,811
    Expenses
    $6,507,945
    Contributions
    $6,471,990
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.