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TIMBERLAND LEGAL AID

EIN 91-1945347 LONGVIEW, WA

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Revenue 2023
$349,230
Expenses 2023
$396,745

Program services were 85.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80
Classification
1000
Street
871 11TH AVE STE 2

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 · 2023

Mission

Cowlitz Wahkiakum Legal Aid seeks to assure justice for low income people in the civil courts. We provide access to legal help for people whose livelihood, family and wellness are threatened.

  • a. Cowlitz Wahkiakum Legal Aid (CWLA) opened 635 new cases in 2023, and closed 535 cases with some form of service provided. b. Approximately 35% of closed cases were related to Housing, and approximately 50% of closed cases were related to Family Law. The remaining 15% of closed cases were related to elder law, guardianship, contracts and miscellaneous civil legal issues. Cowlitz Wahkiakum Legal Aid works only with Civil Law and not Criminal Law. c. The majority of our work takes place in short, confidential advice and counsel appointments, with some limited representations and a small number of full representations.

    Expenses $338,760 · Revenue $291,741

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Steve Madsen

    Legal Director

    Total calculated
    $96,070
    From this org
    $96,070
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Lori Sarancik

    Chief Executive Officer

    Total calculated
    $52,035
    From this org
    $52,035
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Renee Hernandez

    Board Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ed Putka

    Board Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charlotte A Rosen MS LMHC

    Board Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Darlene Smith

    Board Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Meike Weyrauch

    Board Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Mumford

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lisa Gaynor

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Keith Lawrence

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Eleanor Couto

    Board Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Estrellita Barron-Lopez

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $349,230
    Expenses
    $396,745
    Contributions
    $348,431
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $447,421
    Expenses
    $306,351
    Contributions
    $447,421
    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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $318,844
    Expenses
    $193,726
    Assets (EOY)
    $216,647

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $153,863
    Expenses
    $96,359
    Assets (EOY)
    $86,811

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $50,132
    Expenses
    $41,465
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,451

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $55,780
    Expenses
    $50,616
    Assets (EOY)
    $47,834

  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $68,437
    Expenses
    $43,782
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,950

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Alice Millward
Mailing address
1338 Commerce Ave Suite CLONGVIEW WA 98632
Website
www.cwlap.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.