COORDINATED ADVICE AND REFERRAL PROGRAM FOR LEGAL SERVICES
EIN 36-3863573 CHICAGO, IL
- Revenue 2024
- $6,040,232
- Expenses 2024
- $5,312,374
Program services were 85.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- P99M
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 35 E WACKER DR STE 3000
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 HELP TO LOW- AND MODERATE-INCOME ILLINOISANS FOR EVERYDAY LEGAL MATTERS THOUGH FREE LEGAL SERVICES.
Activities or mission (Part I)
PRO BONO LEGAL ADVICE & REFERRALS
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PROVIDE FREE LEGAL ADVICE AND COORDINATE REFERRALS FOR INDIGENT CLIENTS TO LEGAL AID OFFICES IN COOK COUNTY.
Expenses $4,564,343 · Revenue $92,454
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.
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Amy Van GelderAMY VAN GELDER
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Dana WilliamsDANA WILLIAMS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Nilofer UmarNILOFER UMAR
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Nicole WellsNICOLE WELLS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mark Premo-HopkinsMARK PREMO-HOPKINS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Sarah PadgittSARAH PADGITT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Michael PaceMICHAEL PACE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Stacie NeeterSTACIE NEETER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Andrew MacnallyANDREW MACNALLY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ted McNabolaTED MCNABOLA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Abad LopezABAD LOPEZ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jennifer KratochvilJENNIFER KRATOCHVIL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Tilden KatzTILDEN KATZ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Holly A HarrisonHOLLY A HARRISON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Margaret HaasMARGARET HAAS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Andrew MerrickANDREW MERRICK
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Elizabeth HutchinsELIZABETH HUTCHINS
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kyle HartmanKYLE HARTMAN
VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Allen SchwartzALLEN SCHWARTZ
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $156,505
- From this org
- $153,280
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $3,225
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $153,280
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $2,890
- Nontaxable benefits
- $335
- Filer's total
- $156,505
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Patricia WronaPATRICIA WRONA
DIRECTOR OF LEGAL SERVICES
- Total calculated
- $146,348
- From this org
- $131,204
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $15,144
- Hours/week
- 40
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $6,040,232
- Expenses
- $5,312,374
- Contributions
- $5,898,171
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $5,007,231
- Expenses
- $4,701,351
- Contributions
- $4,913,921
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $4,199,316
- Expenses
- $4,156,982
- Contributions
- $4,129,755
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,385,388
- Expenses
- $4,084,151
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,874,944
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,320,392
- Expenses
- $3,397,987
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,189,591
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,837,336
- Expenses
- $2,659,371
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,169,462
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,043,261
- Expenses
- $2,545,732
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,469,543
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,239,628
- Expenses
- $2,386,027
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,956,619
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,567,846
- Expenses
- $2,056,206
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,133,170
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,917,585
- Expenses
- $2,111,998
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,611,572
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,151,044
- Expenses
- $2,050,111
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,813,721
-
2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,878,808
- Expenses
- $1,951,204
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,717,903
-
2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $1,902,753
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,776,401
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
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$2,209,850
2024 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT, GOVERNMENT/PROJECT GRANT, & PROJECT SUPPORT
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$1,913,372
2023 GENERAL OPERATING AND PROJECT SUPPORT & GOVERNMENT PROJECT/GRANT
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LAWYERS TRUST FUND OF ILLINOIS
$1,470,000
2024 TO PROVIDE FREE LEGAL SERVICES
-
$1,410,929
2022 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT, PROJECT SUPPORT & GOVERNMENT/PROJECT GRANT
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LAWYERS TRUST FUND OF ILLINOIS
$1,194,000
2023 TO PROVIDE FREE LEGAL SERVICES
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ILLINOIS EQUAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION
$1,026,020
2024 TO PROVIDE COORDINATED LEGAL INFORMATION, ADVICE AND REFERRALS TO LOW-INCOME PEOPLE IN COOK COUNTY AND TO VETERANS AND PEOPLE IMPACTED BY THE CRIMINALIZATION OF CANNABIS STATEWIDE. TO PROVIDE TECH EXPERTISE ON LEGAL AID NETWORKS PROGRAMS.
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LAWYERS TRUST FUND OF ILLINOIS
$992,000
2022 TO PROVIDE FREE LEGAL SERVICES
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ILLINOIS EQUAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION
$987,236
2022 TO PROVIDE COORDINATED LEGAL INFORMATION, ADVICE AND REFERRALS TO LOW-INCOME PEOPLE IN COOK COUNTY AND TO VETERANS AND PEOPLE IMPACTED BY THE CRIMINALIZATION OF CANNABIS STATEWIDE. TO PROVIDE TECH EXPERTISE ON LEGAL AID NETWORKS PROGRAMS.
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ILLINOIS EQUAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION
$940,820
2023 TO PROVIDE COORDINATED LEGAL INFORMATION, ADVICE AND REFERRALS TO LOW-INCOME PEOPLE IN COOK COUNTY AND TO VETERANS AND PEOPLE IMPACTED BY THE CRIMINALIZATION OF CANNABIS STATEWIDE. TO PROVIDE TECH EXPERTISE ON LEGAL AID NETWORKS PROGRAMS.
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$17,450
2022 HUMAN SERVICES
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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.