- Revenue 2025
- $23,752,745
- Expenses 2025
- $22,862,247
Program services were 80.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- I80Z
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 303 N MAIN ST STE 600
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 or coordinate the delivery of high quality free civil legal services to low-income individuals, families and groups
Activities or mission (Part I)
To educate and provide / coordinate the delivery of high quality free civil legal services to low-income individuals, senior citizens, persons with disabilities, and other vulnerable persons
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Provision of legal services to low-income clients in civil matters to eligible persons; 13,018 disposed cases in 2025
Expenses $18,463,502
As filed on the 2025 return.
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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Denise Conklin
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $194,852
- From this org
- $180,528
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $14,324
- Hours/week
- 37.5
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $180,528
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $14,324
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $194,852
-
Gretchen Farwell
Managing Attorney
- Total calculated
- $162,282
- From this org
- $112,903
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $49,379
- Hours/week
- 37.5
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $112,903
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $12,993
- Nontaxable benefits
- $36,386
- Filer's total
- $162,282
-
Adrian Barr
Managing Attorney
- Total calculated
- $161,364
- From this org
- $112,603
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $48,761
- Hours/week
- 37.5
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $112,603
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $11,257
- Nontaxable benefits
- $37,504
- Filer's total
- $161,364
-
Jean Ruthe
Finance Director
- Total calculated
- $157,260
- From this org
- $146,350
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $10,910
- Hours/week
- 37.5
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $146,350
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $10,910
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $157,260
-
Jessica Hodierne
Director of Human Resources
- Total calculated
- $155,641
- From this org
- $118,479
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $37,162
- Hours/week
- 37.5
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $118,479
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $8,736
- Nontaxable benefits
- $28,426
- Filer's total
- $155,641
-
Jerome Dombrowski
Director of Information Technology
- Total calculated
- $155,092
- From this org
- $107,589
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $47,503
- Hours/week
- 37.5
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $107,589
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $10,158
- Nontaxable benefits
- $37,345
- Filer's total
- $155,092
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Amber Moore
Managing Attorney
- Total calculated
- $152,404
- From this org
- $116,411
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $35,993
- Hours/week
- 37.5
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $116,411
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $10,067
- Nontaxable benefits
- $25,926
- Filer's total
- $152,404
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William Beckman
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Kenneth E Davies
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Rebecca Lee
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
C Garrett Bonsell
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Christi Alexander
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
J Michael Bean
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Lisa Rae Corwin
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Dean Davis
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Adam M Fleming
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
April Foster
Client Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Deborah Goldberg
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ericka Hill
Client Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Louis Hobson
Client Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Deanna Hoyt
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Carol Loughridge
Client Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ciera Munoz
Client Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Julie O'Rourke
General Board Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Randa Salinas
Client Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
- $23,752,745
- Expenses
- $22,862,247
- Contributions
- $23,311,339
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2024
- Revenue
- $22,719,437
- Expenses
- $21,481,485
- Contributions
- $22,339,650
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $21,910,998
- Expenses
- $19,561,216
- Contributions
- $21,767,807
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $19,946,586
- Expenses
- $18,225,193
- Contributions
- $19,889,229
- 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
- $17,866,109
- Expenses
- $16,052,974
- Assets (EOY)
- $13,043,548
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $15,363,710
- Expenses
- $14,502,699
- Assets (EOY)
- $10,545,681
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $12,977,403
- Expenses
- $13,701,156
- Assets (EOY)
- $9,228,281
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $14,220,266
- Expenses
- $12,696,800
- Assets (EOY)
- $9,851,656
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $11,245,709
- Expenses
- $11,009,442
- Assets (EOY)
- $8,289,916
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $12,197,023
- Expenses
- $10,976,351
- Assets (EOY)
- $7,853,360
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $11,228,215
- Expenses
- $11,147,520
- Assets (EOY)
- $6,841,449
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $11,238,870
- Expenses
- $11,121,104
- Assets (EOY)
- $7,025,642
-
2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $10,238,088
- Expenses
- $9,566,096
- Assets (EOY)
- $6,732,563
-
2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $8,207,868
- Assets (EOY)
- $5,689,783
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
-
$5,627,542
2024 CIVIL LEGAL AID
-
LAWYERS TRUST FUND OF ILLINOIS
$5,530,000
2024 TO PROVIDE FREE LEGAL SERVICES
-
$5,489,448
2022 CIVIL LEGAL AID
-
$5,440,010
2023 CIVIL LEGAL AID
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LAWYERS TRUST FUND OF ILLINOIS
$4,506,027
2023 TO PROVIDE FREE LEGAL SERVICES
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ILLINOIS EQUAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION
$3,559,741
2023 TO PROVIDE LEGAL INFORMATION, ADVICE AND REPRESENTATION TO LOW-INCOME PEOPLE IN 36 NORTHERN/CENTRAL COUNTIES INCLUDING VETERANS, PEOPLE IMPACTED BY THE CRIMINALIZATION OF CANNABIS AND THOSE IMPACTED BY HOUSING INSTABILITY DUE TO THE PANDEMIC.
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ILLINOIS EQUAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION
$3,295,960
2024 TO PROVIDE LEGAL INFORMATION, ADVICE AND REPRESENTATION TO LOW-INCOME PEOPLE IN 36 NORTHERN/CENTRAL COUNTIES INCLUDING VETERANS, PEOPLE IMPACTED BY THE CRIMINALIZATION OF CANNABIS AND THOSE IMPACTED BY HOUSING INSTABILITY DUE TO THE PANDEMIC.
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LAWYERS TRUST FUND OF ILLINOIS
$3,012,880
2022 TO PROVIDE FREE LEGAL SERVICES
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ILLINOIS EQUAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION
$2,976,475
2022 TO PROVIDE LEGAL INFORMATION, ADVICE AND REPRESENTATION TO LOW-INCOME PEOPLE IN 36 NORTHERN/CENTRAL COUNTIES INCLUDING VETERANS, PEOPLE IMPACTED BY THE CRIMINALIZATION OF CANNABIS AND THOSE IMPACTED BY HOUSING INSTABILITY DUE TO THE PANDEMIC.
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2023 SOCIAL SERVICES FOR OLDER ADULTS
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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.