Skip to content
Nonprofiteer
← All organizations

VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT OF THE BOSTON BAR ASSOCIATION INC

EIN 22-2486215 BOSTON, MA

Revenue 2025
$3,983,215
Expenses 2025
$3,768,337

Program services were 85.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80Z
Classification
1000
Street
7 WINTHROP SQ

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 · 2025

Mission

THE MISSION OF THE VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT OF THE BOSTON BAR ASSOCIATION IS TO INCREASE ACCESS TO JUSTICE BY DELIVERING HIGH QUALITY PRO BONO CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES TO ELIGIBLE CLIENTS IN THE GREATER BOSTON AREA.

Activities or mission (Part I)

VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT INCREASES ACCESS TO JUSTICE BY DELIVERING HIGH QUALITY PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES TO ELIGIBLE CLIENTS IN THE GREATER BOSTON AREA.

  • LEGAL AID PROGRAMS: IN 2025 VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT (VLP) WORKED WITH PRO BONO ATTORNEYS TO SERVE LOW-INCOME CLIENTS WITH A WIDE RANGE OF CIVIL LEGAL PROBLEMS, INCLUDING HOUSING, EVICTION, FORECLOSURE, CHILD SUPPORT, BANKRUPTCY, WILLS, GUARDIANSHIP, UNPAID WAGES, AND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. IN 2025, VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT SERVED APPROXIMATELY 8,388 CLIENTS. PARTICIPATING ATTORNEYS DONATED APPROXIMATELY 7,664 PRO BONO HOURS WHICH VLP CONSERVATIVELY VALUES AT $2,682,400. ATTORNEYS VOLUNTEERED AT COURTHOUSE PROJECTS TO PROVIDE ADVICE AND REPRESENTATION IN CONSUMER, HOUSING, GUARDIANSHIP, AND FAMILY MATTERS. SENIOR PARTNERS FOR JUSTICE CONTINUED ITS WORK IN HANDLING COMPLEX CASES AND MENTORING LESS EXPERIENCED ATTORNEYS.

    Expenses $3,210,097 · Grants $56,339

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • WILLIAM ROBERTS

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTOPHER CLARK

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICHARD FERGUSON

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HANTZLEY AUDATE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CYNTHIA BELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DEBORAH HILL BORNHEIMER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ANDREW H COHN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DANIELLE CUNNINGHAM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • BRIAN DUNPHY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SARAH KELLY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JASON H LISS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CATHERINE LOMBARDO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DAPHNE LOPES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DEE MULLEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • STEVEN D POHL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JOANNA ALLISON

    EXEC. DIRECTOR & CLERK (THRU 10/25)

    Total calculated
    $208,360
    From this org
    $201,006
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,354
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $201,006
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,058
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,296
    Filer's total
    $208,360

  • GERALDINE GRUVIS-PIZARRO

    EXEC DIR/CLERK 10/25;DIR ADV PB 9/25

    Total calculated
    $175,326
    From this org
    $147,664
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,662
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $147,664
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,595
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,067
    Filer's total
    $175,326

  • APRIL JONES

    CHIEF FINANCE & OPERATIONS OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $189,317
    From this org
    $171,007
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,310
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $171,007
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,204
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,106
    Filer's total
    $189,317

  • ILANA ZELTSER

    SR. MANAGER OF FINANCE & OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $122,287
    From this org
    $105,931
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,356
    Hours/week
    35

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $3,983,215
    Expenses
    $3,768,337
    Contributions
    $3,819,679
    Grants paid
    $56,339
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,497,506
    Expenses
    $3,993,402
    Contributions
    $4,359,149
    Grants paid
    $56,339
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,287,755
    Expenses
    $5,076,480
    Contributions
    $5,211,871
    Grants paid
    $56,339
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,165,374
    Expenses
    $4,822,533
    Contributions
    $5,143,862
    Grants paid
    $50,718

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,480,923
    Expenses
    $4,441,721
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,402,834

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,733,985
    Expenses
    $3,217,048
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,323,472

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,934,510
    Expenses
    $3,173,870
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,650,032

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,142,498
    Expenses
    $2,905,129
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,785,875

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,933,025
    Expenses
    $2,258,057
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,447,119

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,390,343
    Expenses
    $2,170,692
    Assets (EOY)
    $788,596

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,311,174
    Expenses
    $2,278,593
    Assets (EOY)
    $536,242

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,201,143
    Expenses
    $2,324,705
    Assets (EOY)
    $515,782

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,152,279
    Expenses
    $2,189,421
    Assets (EOY)
    $644,341

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,149,789
    Assets (EOY)
    $600,192

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

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 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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.