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PRO BONO INSTITUTE

EIN 52-1991509 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2024
$2,381,365
Expenses 2024
$2,154,946

Program services were 83.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80
Classification
1000
Street
1032 15TH ST NW

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).

Other organizations at this address

16 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

EXPLORE AND IDENTIFY NEW APPROACHES TO AND RESOURCES FOR THE PROVISION OF LEGAL SERVICES TO THE POOR, DISADVANTAGED, AND OTHERS UNABLE TO SECURE LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO ADDRESS CRITICAL LEGAL PROBLEMS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE PURPOSE OF THE PRO BONO INSTITUTE IS TO EXPLORE AND IDENTIFY NEW APPROACHES TO AND RESOURCES FOR THE PROVISION OF LEGAL SERVICES TO THE POOR, DISADVANTAGED, AND OTHERS UNABLE TO SECURE LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO ADDRESS CRITICAL LEGAL PROBLEMS.

  • CORPORATE PRO BONO - THE CORPORATE PRO BONO PROJECT IS DESIGNED TO SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF PRO BONO WORK PERFORMED BY IN-HOUSE COUNSEL AND TO ENHANCE THE PRO BONO CULTURE OF IN-HOUSE LEGAL DEPARTMENTS THROUGH TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THE IN-HOUSE COMMUNITY, TARGETED RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS, ONLINE INFORMATION AND SERVICES, AND OUTREACH AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING. ONE OF CORPORATE PRO BONO'S KEY FEATURES IS ITS WEBSITE, WWW.CPBO.ORG.

    Expenses $697,871 · Revenue $3,000

  • LAW FIRM PRO BONO PROJECT - THE LAW FIRM PROJECT WAS CREATED TO SUPPORT AND EXPAND THE PRO BONO PUBLIC ACTIVITIES OF LARGE LAW FIRMS. FUNDED BY MEMBER LAW FIRMS AND SPONSORS, THE PROJECT ASSISTS LAW FIRMS IN DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE PRO BONO PROGRAMS AND IN INTEGRATING THOSE PROGRAMS INTO THE PRACTICE, PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE OF THE FIRMS.

    Expenses $654,598 · Revenue $231,279

  • CONFERENCE - THE PRO BONO INSTITUTE ANNUAL CONFERENCE IS THE LEGAL PROFESSION'S PREMIER GLOBAL PRO BONO EVENT AND THE ONLY CONFERENCE SPECIFICALLY TAILORED TO THE INTERESTS, NEEDS, RESOURCES, AND EMERGING AND EVOLVING ISSUES FACED BY LAW FIRMS AND CORPORATE IN-HOUSE LEADERS INVOLVED IN THE DIRECTION, OVERSIGHT, SUPPORT, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THEIR PRO BONO PROGRAMS. THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROVIDES AN IN-DEPTH, TIMELY, AND PRACTICAL ORIENTATION TO LEADING PRACTICES AND EMERGING ISSUES, TRENDS AND INNOVATIONS, CUTTING-EDGE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FAST-CHANGING WORLD OF LAW FIRMS AND CORPORATE IN-HOUSE PRO BONO, AND NEW AND COMPELLING PRO BONO OPPORTUNITIES IN PUBLIC INTEREST LAW.

    Expenses $336,176 · Revenue $168,905

  • PUBLIC INTEREST PROJECT AND GLOBAL PRO BONO PROJECT

    Expenses $119,688

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Jonathan P Harmon

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Williams

    Board of Director (thru 10/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gregory Jordan

    Board of Director (thru 09/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James J Sandman

    Board of Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennifer Leonard

    Board of Director (as of 10/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laura Stein

    Board of Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Regina M Pisa

    Board of Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eve Runyon

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $243,151
    From this org
    $218,988
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,163
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $218,988
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,570
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,593
    Filer's total
    $243,151

  • Kate Rice

    Chief Operating Officer

    Total calculated
    $209,197
    From this org
    $179,453
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,744
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $179,453
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,384
    Nontaxable benefits
    $24,360
    Filer's total
    $209,197

  • Alyssa Saunders

    Director, Corporate Pro Bono

    Total calculated
    $167,338
    From this org
    $161,420
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,918
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $156,420
    Bonus
    $5,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,843
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,075
    Filer's total
    $167,338

  • Danny Reed

    Director of Development

    Total calculated
    $180,786
    From this org
    $155,481
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,305
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,481
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,664
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,641
    Filer's total
    $180,786

  • Erin Palmer

    Associate Director, Corporate Pro Bono

    Total calculated
    $119,313
    From this org
    $115,767
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,546
    Hours/week
    40

  • Nihad Mansour

    Associate Director, Law Firm Pro Bono Project

    Total calculated
    $119,117
    From this org
    $105,700
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,417
    Hours/week
    40

  • Sarah Lahlou-Amine

    Director, Law Firm Pro Bono Project

    Total calculated
    $150,470
    From this org
    $144,269
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,201
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $139,269
    Bonus
    $5,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,328
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,873
    Filer's total
    $150,470

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,381,365
    Expenses
    $2,154,946
    Contributions
    $1,606,355
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,384,113
    Expenses
    $2,190,234
    Contributions
    $1,757,312
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,984,857
    Expenses
    $2,341,231
    Contributions
    $1,374,802
    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
    $2,463,565
    Expenses
    $2,159,716
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,552,567

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,182,489
    Expenses
    $1,785,007
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,791,281

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,989,797
    Expenses
    $1,916,923
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,320,224

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,533,742
    Expenses
    $2,350,171
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,053,591

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,723,074
    Expenses
    $2,485,476
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,010,446

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,557,660
    Expenses
    $2,342,569
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,865,164

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,153,710
    Expenses
    $2,555,425
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,190,969

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,064,951
    Expenses
    $2,569,991
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,594,276

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,518,196
    Expenses
    $2,542,239
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,062,078

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,184,238
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,207,397

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 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.