- Revenue 2024
- $1,655,988
- Expenses 2024
- $1,312,366
Program services were 78.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- S50
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 800 BOYLSTON ST UNIT 990626
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).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
CAPLAW STRENGTHENS THE LEGAL AND MANAGEMENT CAPACITY OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES AND OTHER ANTI-POVERTY ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, TRAINING AND RESOURCES WHICH ENHANCES THEIR ABILITY TO ACT IN ACCOUNTABLE AND EFFECTIVE WAYS.
Activities or mission (Part I)
TO STRENGTHEN THE LEGAL AND MANAGEMENT CAPACITY OF ANTI-POVERTY ORGANIZATIONS.
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CAPLAW PROVIDES EXTENSIVE LEGAL TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO INCREASE ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY AND STABILITY, PROMOTE EXEMPLARY LEGAL PRACTICES AND POLICIES, AND ENHANCE THE LEGAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK. THROUGH CONSULTATIONS, RESOURCES, AND TRAININGS, WE HELPED THE COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK NAVIGATE A CONSTANTLY EVOLVING LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND OPERATE IN EFFECTIVE AND ACCOUNTABLE WAYS.
Expenses $1,024,157 · Grants $25,000 · Revenue $1,035,186
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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ARLENE DOBISON CCAP
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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KEN ROBINETTE
VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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JOEL EVANS
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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KATHY DINOLFI
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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BETSEY ANDREWS PARKER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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AARON BOWEN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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DAVID BRIGHTBILL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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TRACY DIAZ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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DIANE HEWITT-JOHNSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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DAWN HOMMER CCAP
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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BERTHA PROCTOR CCAP
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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ERICKA WHITAKER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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R ALLISON MA'LUF
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $255,535
- From this org
- $207,713
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $47,822
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $207,713
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $22,004
- Nontaxable benefits
- $25,818
- Filer's total
- $255,535
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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $1,655,988
- Expenses
- $1,312,366
- Contributions
- $422,250
- Grants paid
- $25,000
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2023
- Revenue
- $1,457,559
- Expenses
- $1,251,447
- Contributions
- $420,650
- Grants paid
- $20,000
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2022
- Revenue
- $1,352,330
- Expenses
- $1,207,223
- Contributions
- $318,450
- Grants paid
- $15,000
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.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,399,890
- Expenses
- $1,197,603
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,295,820
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,554,567
- Expenses
- $1,058,527
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,400,465
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $680,736
- Expenses
- $915,156
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,638,843
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,191,599
- Expenses
- $1,031,696
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,456,805
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,131,810
- Expenses
- $981,005
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,334,297
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $960,525
- Expenses
- $995,625
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,270,821
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $995,290
- Expenses
- $923,906
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,174,162
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $959,432
- Expenses
- $887,680
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,075,377
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $906,566
- Expenses
- $797,887
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,061,888
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $721,220
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,819,129
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
Grants made
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2024 DONATION
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2023 DONATION
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2022 DONATION
Grants received
No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.
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 13 October 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.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.