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LEGAL AID AND DEFENDER ASSOCIATION INC

EIN 38-1358203 DETROIT, MI

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Revenue 2024
$932,744
Expenses 2024
$988,364

Program services were 80.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
7650 2ND AVE STE 120

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

THE ORGANIZATIONS MISSION IS TO PROVIDE FREE CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES TO INDIGENT PERSONS WHO QUALIFY UNDER STANDARDS OF ELIGIBILITY ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OR AS SPECIFIED BY GRANT FUNDERS.

  • During fiscal year 2025,LAD continued to provide services primarily for eviction, prevention/housing preservation comprehensive services for Veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and criminal record expungement which removes barriers to housing and employment opportunities. LAD staff handled more than 2000 cases for clients. We held outreach clinics in all 3 counties providing onsite intake and advice for new clients. We received grants to support our expungement services and continue to host expungement fairs in partnership with community agencies. Our grants for Right to Counsel and Legal Services for Veterans were renewed and increased, and we were also awarded a second Right to Counsel grant, enabling LAD to increase the number of clients served

    Expenses $799,944

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.

  • Michelle Johnson

    PRESIDENT CEO

    Total calculated
    $120,388
    From this org
    $120,388
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Che' B Peterson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Roger Short

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jevona Fudge

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erica Fitzgerald

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Regina Thomas

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • J Sherman Larkins

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Arthur Dudley

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Monifa Gray

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robin Kinloch

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cassandra Walker

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Zakia Gibson

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $932,744
    Expenses
    $988,364
    Contributions
    $888,990
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $939,805
    Expenses
    $1,037,645
    Contributions
    $903,827
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,086,982
    Expenses
    $1,201,223
    Contributions
    $995,315
    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
    $1,088,106
    Expenses
    $1,125,831
    Assets (EOY)
    $814,193

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,009,717
    Expenses
    $1,188,037
    Assets (EOY)
    $789,837

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,797,139
    Expenses
    $857,595
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,015,037

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $614,481
    Expenses
    $700,764
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,019

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $550,197
    Expenses
    $508,201
    Assets (EOY)
    $263,155

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,666,580
    Expenses
    $12,991,618
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,790,059

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,329,326
    Expenses
    $16,557,651
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,649,216

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,733,721
    Expenses
    $16,691,306
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,404,313

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $15,740,432
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,653,774

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $17,066,217
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,765,817

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

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

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.