- Revenue 2025
- $2,224,887
- Expenses 2025
- $2,450,464
Program services were 87.6% 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
- 274 NORTH WINOOSKI AVENUE
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 · 2025
Mission
TO PROVIDE LEGAL SERVICES TO AS MANY LOW INCOME VERMONTERS AS POSSIBLE. LSV WILL SEEK TO INCREASE THE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF LOW INCOME VERMONTERS THROUGH A VARIETY OF EDUCATION STRATEGIES.
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CASE SERVICES: TO PROVIDE INFORMATION, LEGAL ADVICE, PRO SE ASSISTANCE, REPRESENTATION AND REFERRAL IN NON-CRIMINAL MATTERS TO LOW-INCOME VERMONTERS.
Expenses $922,253 · Revenue $477,844
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HELP: TO PROVIDE LEGAL ADVICE AND REPRESENTATION TO LOW-INCOME VERMONT TENANTS FACING EVICTION DUE TO THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 CRISIS AND TO ASSIST TENANTS WITH ACCESSING RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.
Expenses $430,479
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TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE GRANTS: TO IMPROVE THE DELIVERY OF EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT, AND HIGH-QUALITY LEGAL ASSISTANCE AND EDUCATION TO LOW-INCOME VERMONTERS BY MAKING IMPROVEMENTS TO WEB SERVICES.
Expenses $170,623
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PRIVATE ATTORNEY INVOLVEMENT: TO RECRUIT ATTORNEYS TO PROVIDE PRO BONO SERVICES TO LOW-INCOME VERMONTERS. NETWORK FOR CRIME VICTIMS: TO PROVIDE DIRECT SERVICES AND REFERRALS TO ATTORNEYS TO VICTIMS OF ALL TYPES OF CRIME FACING CIVIL LEGAL ISSUES RELATED TO THEIR VICTIMIZATION. PRO BONO INITIATIVE: TO IMPROVE INTERNAL PROCESSES FOR ENGAGING AND REFERRING CASES TO PRO BONO ATTORNEYS AND TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS AND THE VARIETY OF PRO BONO PROGRAMS AVAILABLE TO ASSIST LOW- INCOME VERMONTERS WITH CIVIL LEGAL ISSUES. MIGRANT SERVICES: TO PROVIDE INFORMATION, ASSISTANCE AND REFERRAL TO H2A MIGRANT WORKERS FACING LEGAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THEIR EMPLOYMENT.
Expenses $622,299 · Revenue $73,707
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
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.
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SAM ABEL-PALMER
EXECUTIVE DI
- Total calculated
- $163,569
- From this org
- $116,987
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $46,582
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $116,987
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $5,849
- Nontaxable benefits
- $40,733
- Filer's total
- $163,569
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JESSICA OSKI
PRESIDENT/SE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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OLIVIA SMITH-HAMMOND
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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JOE RONAN
VICE PRESIDE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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LAURA J STILLER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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VICTORIA VIC WESTGATE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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MICHAEL SIROTKIN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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MICHELLE ANDERSON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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MICHAEL RUGGLES
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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CHACE JENNINGS LEFT 062025
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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JARED CARTER LEFT 122025
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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BESSIE WEISS LEFT 032025
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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
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2025
- Revenue
- $2,224,887
- Expenses
- $2,450,464
- Contributions
- $1,658,023
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $2,131,612
- Expenses
- $1,863,264
- Contributions
- $1,365,923
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $2,184,314
- Expenses
- $1,768,152
- Contributions
- $1,794,121
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,413,922
- Expenses
- $1,617,144
- Assets (EOY)
- $232,914
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,539,388
- Expenses
- $1,337,788
- Assets (EOY)
- $458,182
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,131,568
- Expenses
- $1,093,815
- Assets (EOY)
- $172,985
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,131,568
- Expenses
- $1,093,815
- Assets (EOY)
- $172,985
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $987,231
- Expenses
- $979,291
- Assets (EOY)
- $131,109
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $802,898
- Expenses
- $813,738
- Assets (EOY)
- $128,734
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $683,356
- Expenses
- $678,028
- Assets (EOY)
- $82,086
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $575,277
- Expenses
- $566,850
- Assets (EOY)
- $54,938
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $544,386
- Expenses
- $638,179
- Assets (EOY)
- $73,229
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $650,731
- Assets (EOY)
- $159,340
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
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2023 TO PROVIDE PROJECT SUPPORT FOR BANKRUPTCY TRAININGS FOR ATTORNEYS.
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2024 TO PROVIDE PROJECT SUPPORT FOR BANKRUPTCY TRAININGS FOR ATTORNEYS.
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$7,000
2024 FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT
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2023 FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT
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.
Declared on its 2025 return
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501C3 · LEGAL SERV · VT
Declared as related by
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On its 2024 return
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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.