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EIN 84-5129426 SPOKANE, WA

Revenue 2024
$3,440,673
Expenses 2024
$3,239,039

Program services were 92.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R99
Classification
1000
Street
321 W BOONE

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

EMPOWERING THE COMMUNITY THROUGH ADVOCACY AND ACCESS.

  • OUR CLIENTS AND THEIR LOVED ONES HAVE BEEN UNJUSTLY IMPACTED BY OUR LEGAL SYSTEM. TOO OFTEN, ACCESS TO JUSTICE IS DENIED DUE TO POVERTY AND STRUCTURAL BIAS. IN OUR WORK, WE FOCUS ON ADDRESSING SYSTEMIC RACISM, REMOVING BARRIERS, EMPOWERING THE MOST VULNERABLE, AND AMPLIFYING THE VOICES OF THE IMPACTED COMMUNITY TO CREATE A MORE JUST SYSTEM. WE UNDERSTAND THAT CHANGE WILL NOT HAPPEN OVERNIGHT, SO ANOTHER ASPECT OF OUR WORK IS FOCUSED ON NAVIGATING SYSTEMS AS THEY ARE, TO FIND THE WAY TO JUSTICE.

    Expenses $3,003,106 · Revenue $6,300

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.

  • VIRLA SPENCER

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $269,427
    From this org
    $269,427
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $247,427
    Bonus
    $22,000
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $269,427

  • QUINTON BAKER

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JEREMIAH BOURGEOIS

    MEMBER AT-LA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAELA BROWN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • F JEROME JD DAVIS

    MEMBER AT-LA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ORAY FIFER

    MEMBER AT-LA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATIE HOWARD

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KAREN LINDHOLDT

    MEMBER AT-LA

    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. 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
    $3,440,673
    Expenses
    $3,239,039
    Contributions
    $3,416,036
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,092,989
    Expenses
    $2,699,420
    Contributions
    $3,082,638
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $835,362
    Expenses
    $687,909
    Contributions
    $832,796
    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
    $688,728
    Expenses
    $225,940
    Assets (EOY)
    $469,677

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $605,695
    Expenses
    $225,940
    Assets (EOY)
    $386,644

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

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