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LEGAL EDUCATION ACCESS PIPELINE INC

EIN 85-2490247 PASADENA, CA

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Revenue 2024
$412,521
Expenses 2024
$304,388

Program services were 76.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I99
Classification
1200
Street
1443 E WASHINGTON BLVD 277

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 mission of LEAP is to diversify the legal profession by preparing underrepresented students to become successful law school applicants, lawyers, and agents of social change.

  • For the year ended December 31, 2024 the organization operated the following programs:MentoringFellows in the LEAP program are paired with a current law student and a practicing attorney for the duration of the fellowship. Fellows connect with their mentors at least once a month. Mentors offer valuable insights from their own experiences, connect Fellows with resources and opportunities, and provide encouragement throughout the fellowship. Attorney mentors illuminate what it is like to work in the field, while student mentors shed light on the law school application process and law school experience.Workshops and Skills-development:Eight monthly, all day Saturday Academies include a comprehensive curriculum to prepare Fellows to excel in their law school applications, in law school, and as lawyers. These workshops are hosted at Loyola Law School and the curriculum includes:*Understanding and successfully completing each element of a law school application*Professionalism and excelling in law school*Building core lawyering skills*Panels and talks from law professionals from diverse professional settingsSocial Justice ProgrammingThe curriculum for the LEAP Fellowship was designed through a social justice lens. Each monthly Saturday Academy includes a program on the social justice applications of a law degree. LEAP targets changemakers who see the law as a tool for social justice and aims to provide our Fellows with the necessary skills to do this critically needed work.

    Expenses $233,300 · Grants $11,706

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.

  • Cindy Lopez

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $22,650
    From this org
    $22,650
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Thaila Sundaresan

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mary Beatty

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Judge Lucy Armendariz

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Justice Carlos Moreno

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Judge George Bird

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rey Rodriguez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steve Levick

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Roger Lowenstein

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shellye Pruitt

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cindy Rivas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Raj Trejan

    Director

    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
    $412,521
    Expenses
    $304,388
    Contributions
    $408,708
    Grants paid
    $22,250
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $262,903
    Expenses
    $226,992
    Contributions
    $262,894
    Grants paid
    $24,905
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $295,952
    Expenses
    $167,279
    Contributions
    $295,857
    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
    $172,821
    Expenses
    $54,968
    Assets (EOY)
    $117,853

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 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Cindy Lopez
Mailing address
1443 E WASHINGTON BLVD NO 277Pasadena CA 91104
Website
legalpipeline.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 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.