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MICHIGAN LEGAL SERVICES

EIN 23-7383477 DETROIT, MI

Revenue 2024
$3,075,286
Expenses 2024
$3,234,153

Program services were 92.9% 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
2727 SECOND AVE 333

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

PROVIDE FREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO INDIGENT AND LOW INCOME PERSONS

  • LEGAL SERVICES TO SECURE AND MAINTAIN AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR LOW INCOME AND INDIGENT INDIVIDUALS (20,142) INDIVIDUALS SERVED.

    Expenses $3,005,288 · Grants $35,833

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.

  • Mary Beth Cobbs

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Curtis Blessing

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Angela Brown Wilson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Cassandra Walker

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Sarida Scott

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Malika Ramsey Heath

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Rosslyn Walker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Emirene Mendoza

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Beverly Lemle

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Marilyn Mullane

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $132,075
    From this org
    $125,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,075
    Hours/week
    55

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
    $3,075,286
    Expenses
    $3,234,153
    Contributions
    $2,994,626
    Grants paid
    $35,833
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,979,472
    Expenses
    $3,445,787
    Contributions
    $2,720,196
    Grants paid
    $845,768
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,402,865
    Expenses
    $2,258,511
    Contributions
    $1,848,341
    Grants paid
    $638,036

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
    $1,666,205
    Expenses
    $1,322,972
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,255,596

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,125,131
    Expenses
    $956,411
    Assets (EOY)
    $880,303

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

  • UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION (UCHC)

    $835,768

    2023 THE MICHIGAN STATE BAR FOUNDATION PROVIDES IOLTA AND CERA GRANTS TO WORTHY LEGAL PROGRAMS THAT ASSIST LOW INCOME INDIVIDUALS IN MICHIGAN. MLS PROVIDES SUBGRANTS TO UCHC TO ASSIST LOW INCOME TENANTS AND HOMEOWNERS THREATENED WITH THE LOSS OF HOUSING IN DETROIT.

  • UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION

    $628,036

    2022 THE MICHIGAN STATE BAR FOUNDATION FUNDS THE IOLTA GRANT TO WORTHY LEGAL PROGRAMS THAT ASSIST LOW INCOME INIDIVIDUALS IN MICHIGAN. LEGAL SERVICES OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN FUNDS A GRANT FOR LEGAL AID TO LOW INCOME HOMEOWNERS WHOSE PROPERTY IS SUBJECT TO BANK OR TAX FORECLOSURE.

  • UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION (UCHC)

    $30,000

    2024 THE MICHIGAN STATE BAR FOUNDATION PROVIDES IOLTA AND CERA GRANTS TO WORTHY LEGAL PROGRAMS THAT ASSIST LOW INCOME INDIVIDUALS IN MICHIGAN. MLS PROVIDES SUBGRANTS TO UCHC TO ASSIST LOW INCOME TENANTS AND HOMEOWNERS THREATENED WITH THE LOSS OF HOUSING IN DETROIT.

  • MICHIGAN COMMUNITY RESOURCES (MCR)

    $10,000

    2023 THE MICHIGAN STATE BAR FOUNDATION FUNDS THE IOLTA GRANT TO WORTHY LEGAL PROGRAMS THAT ASSIST LOW INCOME INDIVIDUALS IN MICHIGAN THROUGH AN IOLTA SUBGRANT PROVIDED BY MLS TO MCR.

  • MICHIGAN COMMUNITY RESOURCES

    $10,000

    2022 THE MICHIGAN STATE BAR FOUNDATION IOLTA GRANT FUNDS WORTHY LEGAL PROJECTS THAT ASSIST NONPROFITS WHO SERVE LOW INCOME INDIVIDUALS IN MICHIGAN.

  • MICHIGAN COMMUNITY RESOURCES (MCR)

    $5,833

    2024 THE MICHIGAN STATE BAR FOUNDATION FUNDS THE IOLTA GRANT TO WORTHY LEGAL PROGRAMS THAT ASSIST LOW INCOME INDIVIDUALS IN MICHIGAN THROUGH AN IOLTA SUBGRANT PROVIDED BY MLS TO MCR.

Where these grants went next →

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.