DELAWARE VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

I80N

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 7306

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

• LEGAL SERVICES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS - THE LEGAL SERVICES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS PROGRAM FOCUSES ON LATINO POPULATION IN DELAWARE. WHILE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CROSSES ALL SOCIO-ECONOMIC LINES, IT IS ESPECIALLY HIGH AMONG POVERTY CLIENTS. ATTORNEY'S MEET WITH CLIENTS AT THE LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER IN WILMINGTON AS WELL AS OTHER LOCATIONS.

  Expenses $315,898 · Revenue $315,898

• PFA PRO BONO PROGRAM - THROUGH THE PRO BONO PROGRAM, OUR GOAL IS TO EVALUATE AS MANY PFA CASES EACH WEEK AS POSSIBLE AND PLACE THE MOST MERITORIOUS CASES PRIOR TO THE HEARING WITH THE VOLUNTEER ATTORNEYS. DURING THE DAYS LEADING UP TO EACH PFA DAY, THE DPBP SPENDS TIME DAILY IN PREPARATION FOR PFA DAY. THIS INCLUDES TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS WITH PROSPECTIVE CLIENTS AND VOLUNTEER ATTORNEYS ABOUT THEIR CASES, REVIEW OF THE NEED TO BRING IN WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE, AND REVIEW OF PETITIONS, POLICE REPORTS, AND OTHER DOCUMENTS PROVIDED TO DVLS BY VICTIMS, THEIR ADVOCATES AND OTHERS.

  Expenses $112,200 · Revenue $112,200

• RIGHT TO REPRESENTATION - DELAWARE'S THREE LEGAL AID AGENCIES HAVE JOINED FORCES TO FORM THE EVICTION DEFENSE PROGRAM (EDP). THROUH THE COMBINED LEGAL EXPERTISE OF CLASI, DVLS, AND LSCD, THE EDP FUNCTIONS AS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT AMONG THE AGENCIES. THE PROJECT'S VISION IS SIMPLE, KEEP TENANTS HOUSED. THE LEGAL PROCESSES SURROUNDING EVICTION ARE DAUNTING, AND THE REALITY IS THAT MANY RENTERS ARE UNAWARE OF THE RESCOURCES AVAILABLE TO ASSIST THEM. THE GOAL IS TO CONNECT RENTERS TO THE LEGAL RESCOURCES. UTILIZING ATTORNEYS AND QUALIFIED TENANT ADVOCATES TO PROVIDE REPRESENTATION FOR TENANTS.

  Expenses $1,543,973 · Revenue $1,693,600

• DVLS IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO DELIVER PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES TO NEEDY DELAWAREANS. EACH CLIENT, OTHER THAN VICTIMS OF CRIME, MUST MEET A PERCENTAGE OF THE OFFICIAL POVERTY THRESHOLD, AS DEFINED EACH YEAR BY THE U.S. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET - FEDERAL POVERTY STANDARDS (45 C.F.R. PART 1611) FOR INCOME ELIGIBILITY. DVLS TARGETS THOSE HAVING INCOMES AT OR BELOW 125% OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY LEVEL. A PERSON WHOSE GROSS INCOME EXCEEDS 125% OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY LIMIT, BUT DOES NOT EXCEED 200% OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY LIMIT MAY IN CERTAIN CASES BE PROVIDED LEGAL ASSISTANCE. CERTAIN CLIENTS, SUCH AS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTOMS, THOSE OVER 60 YEARS OF AGE AND THE TERMINALLY ILL, FACE THE LESS RESTRICTIVE STANDARD OF 200% OF THE POVERTY LEVEL. IN ADDITION, DVLS CLIENTS MUST HAVE A MERITORIOUS CIVIL LEGAL PROBLEM THAT IS NOT FEE GENERATING. CASES MEETING THESE CRITERIA ARE PLACED WITH ONE OF THE AGENCY'S PRO BONO ATTORNEYS, STAFF OR LAW STUDENTS. LEGAL REPRESENTATION RANGES FROM BRIEF CONSULTATIONS TO LITIGATION. THE CLIENTS DVLS SERVES ARE EACH UNIQUE, BUT ONE CHARACTERISTIC THEY SHARE IS THAT THEY HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO TURN FOR LEGAL ASSISTANCE. DVLS VOLUNTEER ATTORNEYS, STAFF AND LAW STUDENTS ENSURE THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR FAMILIES RECEIVE QUALITY LEGAL SERVICES AT NO COST. IN ADDITION TO DIRECT REPRESENTATION OF CLIENTS, DVLS HAS VOLUNTEERS WHO ACT AS CONSULTANTS AND MENTORS FOR OTHER VOLUNTEER ATTORNEYS.

  Expenses $1,846,906

• THE LEGAL SERVICES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS PROGRAM FOCUSES ON COMMUNITY OUTREACH IN DELAWARE. WHILE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CROSSES ALL SOCIO-ECONOMIC LINES, IT IS ESPECIALLY HIGH AMONG POVERTY LEVEL CLIENTS. ATTORNEY'S MEET WITH CLIENTS AT THE LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER IN WILMINGTON AS WELL AS OTHER LOCATIONS

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.

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

  $4,330,772

  Expenses

  $4,187,861

  Contributions

  $2,201,493

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,460,602

  Expenses

  $2,400,459

  Contributions

  $1,204,357

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,509,334

  Expenses

  $1,486,610

  Contributions

  $989,752

  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

  $1,363,445

  Expenses

  $1,266,698

  Assets (EOY)

  $715,882

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,263,632

  Expenses

  $1,116,082

  Assets (EOY)

  $606,476

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,089,820

  Expenses

  $1,090,087

  Assets (EOY)

  $457,545

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,032,700

  Expenses

  $1,048,551

  Assets (EOY)

  $453,014

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,049,725

  Expenses

  $965,033

  Assets (EOY)

  $533,873

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $901,918

  Expenses

  $862,501

  Assets (EOY)

  $436,560

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $754,820

  Expenses

  $800,833

  Assets (EOY)

  $332,679

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $824,074

  Expenses

  $758,358

  Assets (EOY)

  $544,887

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $681,903

  Assets (EOY)

  $465,203

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $599,149

  Assets (EOY)

  $248,367

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

• DELAWARE BAR FOUNDATION

  $632,744

  2024 · LEGAL AID

• DELAWARE BAR FOUNDATION

  $450,720

  2023 · LEGAL AID

• DELAWARE BAR FOUNDATION

  $250,000

  2022 · LEGAL AID

• DELAWARE BAR FOUNDATION

  $150,000

  2024 · LEGAL AID

• DELAWARE BAR FOUNDATION

  $150,000

  2022 · LEGAL AID

• DELAWARE BAR FOUNDATION

  $150,000

  2023 · LEGAL AID

• DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $133,000

  2022 · TO SUPPORT A FELLOW (ATTORNEY) TO PROVIDE LEGAL SERVICES CONSISTENT WITH DVLS'S MISSION

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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