COLORADO LEGAL SERVICES

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

I80

Classification

1000

Street

1560 BROADWAY STE 1100

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

• COLORADO LEGAL SERVICES (CLS) IS COLORADO'S STATEWIDE LEGAL AID NONPROFIT THAT HAS SERVED COLORADANS IN POVERTY FOR 100 YEARS, GUIDING THROUGH DIFFICULT CIVIL LEGAL MATTERS. WE REPRESENT COLORADANS WHO MEET INCOME AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS FOR FREE. OUR 12 OFFICES HELP PEOPLE FACING A VARIETY OF LEGAL PROBLEMS IN EIGHT PRIMARY AREAS OF WORK, WHICH INCLUDE THESE FOUR CORE PRACTICE AREAS, AS WELL AS FOUR STATEWIDE SPECIALTY AREAS. THESE AREAS ARE ECONOMIC JUSTICE ( DEBT COLLECTION, BANKRUPTCY, GARNISHMENT, REPOSSESSION), FAMILY LAW ( DIVORCE, CUSTODY AND PROTECTION ORDERS), HOUSING ( EVICTIONS, FORECLOSURES AND LANDLORD/ TENANT ISSUES) AND PUBLIC BENEFITS ( SS, MEDICARE, MEDICAID AND SNAP).DURING 2025, CLS CLOSED 8,424 CASES IN WHICH LEGAL ASSISTANCE WAS PROVIDED TO CLIENT. THOSE HOUSEHOLDS INCLUDED 10,178 ADULTS, AND 6,292 CHILDREN. IN ADDITION, CLS HELD 308 LEGAL EDUCATION/INFORMATION EVENTS FOR OUR CLIENT COMMUNITIES. CLS ALSO HELD 159 OUTREACH EVENTS TO PARTNER AGENCIES AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.

  Expenses $25,114,312 · Grants $39,236 · Revenue $18,418

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

The first 25 listed. 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

  $25,311,011

  Expenses

  $27,718,851

  Contributions

  $24,596,011

  Grants paid

  $39,236

• 2024

  Revenue

  $24,965,965

  Expenses

  $25,059,712

  Contributions

  $24,145,878

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $20,978,129

  Expenses

  $19,771,558

  Contributions

  $20,216,149

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $17,161,248

  Expenses

  $17,386,469

  Contributions

  $16,931,110

  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

  $17,399,639

  Expenses

  $15,411,695

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,011,744

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $15,674,430

  Expenses

  $13,060,890

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,502,777

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $14,031,209

  Expenses

  $12,176,921

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,330,943

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $12,954,309

  Expenses

  $11,214,112

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,243,702

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,966,006

  Expenses

  $10,430,911

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,490,413

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,374,346

  Expenses

  $10,734,981

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,893,466

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,465,877

  Expenses

  $10,626,830

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,201,914

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,386,782

  Expenses

  $10,397,315

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,397,381

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,842,183

  Expenses

  $9,898,446

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,336,717

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.

Grants made

• ROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK

  $38,575

  2025 · TO FUND THE PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES TO TRAFFICKED IMMIGRANT YOUTHS AND ADULTS IN IMMIGRATION DETENTION UNDER THE CLS PROJECT.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• COLORADO LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNT FOUNDATION

  $7,961,125

  2024 · Program support

• COLORADO LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNT FOUNDATION

  $7,765,871

  2023 · Legal service support

• LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

  $6,669,097

  2024 · CIVIL LEGAL AID

• LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

  $6,614,233

  2023 · CIVIL LEGAL AID

• LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

  $6,563,643

  2022 · CIVIL LEGAL AID

• COLORADO LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNT FOUNDATION

  $5,468,100

  2022 · PRO-BONO LEGAL SERVICES

• LEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF COLORADO

  $1,915,810

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED/FELLOWSHIP STIPEND

• DENVER FOUNDATION

  $243,433

  2023 · LEGAL SERVICES

• GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

  $136,315

  2023 · SUBAWARD

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $80,200

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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