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NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC

EIN 51-0198935 BUFFALO, NY

Revenue 2025
$16,485,971
Expenses 2025
$16,201,522

Program services were 87.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
Street
237 MAIN ST STE 400

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).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • KERISHA HAWTHORNE-GREER

    PRESIDENT (STARTING JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JONATHAN LACEY

    VICE PRESIDENT (STARTING JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PAMELA THIBODEAU

    SECRETARY (STARTING JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SHANE GREENE

    TREASURER (STARTING JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • HEATHER ABRAHAM

    BOARD MEMBER (STARTING JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DIANA BLOOM

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELISE CASSAR

    BOARD MEMBER (STARTING JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELAINE DIALLO

    BOARD MEMBER (STARTING JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBIN EDWARDS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GRACE GOLANDO

    BOARD MEMBER (STARTING JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JULIA HEFTKA

    BOARD MEMBER (STARTING JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PATRICK HINES

    BOARD MEMBER (STARTING JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GRACE PIETROCARLO

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • OCTOBER REED

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICHARD J SCHECHTER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CARINA SCHOENBERGER

    BOARD MEMBER (STARTING JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAELLE SCHWACH

    PRESIDENT (TO JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SAM SMITH

    TREASURER (TO JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PATRICK LONG

    BOARD MEMBER (TO JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARGARET SROKA

    BOARD MEMBER (TO JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID NELSON

    BOARD MEMBER (TO JUNE 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAUREN E BREEN

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (TO AUGUST 2025)

    Total calculated
    $203,820
    From this org
    $188,385
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,435
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $188,385
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $14,871
    Nontaxable benefits
    $564
    Filer's total
    $203,820

  • MELISSA MENDOLERA

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $211,158
    From this org
    $186,577
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,581
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $186,577
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,530
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,051
    Filer's total
    $211,158

  • VERA VENKOVA

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $163,604
    From this org
    $141,930
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,674
    Hours/week
    32

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,930
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,968
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,706
    Filer's total
    $163,604

  • KEISHA WILLIAMS

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $196,279
    From this org
    $180,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,279
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $180,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,300
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,979
    Filer's total
    $196,279

The first 25 listed. 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $16,485,971
    Expenses
    $16,201,522
    Contributions
    $16,074,247
    Grants paid
    $2,498,392
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $16,563,985
    Expenses
    $15,626,861
    Contributions
    $16,508,404
    Grants paid
    $3,408,858
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $13,145,334
    Expenses
    $12,874,264
    Contributions
    $13,123,679
    Grants paid
    $2,473,832
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $9,297,172
    Expenses
    $9,260,808
    Contributions
    $9,280,814
    Grants paid
    $1,055,532

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.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

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 10 September 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 IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.