- Revenue 2024
- $461,984
- Expenses 2024
- $392,168
Program services were 32.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- I80
- Classification
- 1270
- Street
- 521 N 26TH ST
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
TO INCREASE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR ALL BY PROVIDING BASIC LEGAL SERVICES AND LEGAL EDUCATION TO THE MOST VULNERABLE IN SOCIETY.
Activities or mission (Part I)
PROVIDE BASIC LEGAL SERVICES AND LEGAL EDUCATION TO THE MOST VULNERABLE IN SOCIETY.
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ACCESS JUSTICE OPERATES WEEKLY/MONTHLY LEGAL CLINICS WHERE VOLUNTEER ATTORNEYS PROVIDE CLIENTS WHO HAVE NO HOPE OF A VOICE IN OR UNDERSTANDING OF THE DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM WITH 45-60 MINUTES OF PRO BONO LEGAL ADVICE AND COUNSEL. ACCESS JUSTICE'S VOLUNTEER ATTORNEYS PROVIDE CLIENTS WITH INFORMATION AS TO THEIR RIGHTS AND EMPOWER THEM TO PREPARE AND FILE DOCUMENTS AND PLEADINGS, AND NEGOTIATE TO PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS. IF MATTERS NEED FURTHER SUPPORT OUTSIDE OF THE CLINIC SETTING, ACCESS JUSTICE REFERS CLIENTS TO A NETWORK OF ATTORNEYS WHO HAVE AGREED TO TAKE REFERRALS FROM THE ORGANIZATION. PROFESSIONALS PROVIDED IN-KIND LEGAL SERVICES TOTALING $433,375 TO CLIENTS DURING THE YEAR.
Expenses $125,835 · Revenue $19,436
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.
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Beau HandyBEAU HANDY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Cindee CoffeeCINDEE COFFEE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Jim EriksenJIM ERIKSEN
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Randall GibsonRANDALL GIBSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Barbara MenefeeBARBARA MENEFEE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Jackie EllspermanJACKIE ELLSPERMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Phyllis PlattPHYLLIS PLATT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Leisa RayLEISA RAY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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John SchmittJOHN SCHMITT
CHAIRMAN
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 14
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Curtis TaylorCURTIS TAYLOR
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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David ThomasDAVID THOMAS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Charlie VittitowCHARLIE VITTITOW
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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R Kent WestberryR KENT WESTBERRY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Stephen GibsonSTEPHEN GIBSON
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Carl L Williams SrCARL L WILLIAMS SR
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $85,231
- From this org
- $85,231
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $461,984
- Expenses
- $392,168
- Contributions
- $438,341
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $359,185
- Expenses
- $464,403
- Contributions
- $340,460
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $410,122
- Expenses
- $436,802
- Contributions
- $407,237
- 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
- $358,856
- Expenses
- $306,161
- Assets (EOY)
- $273,125
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $177,944
- Expenses
- $223,002
- Assets (EOY)
- $238,636
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $358,137
- Expenses
- $180,024
- Assets (EOY)
- $278,913
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2018 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $178,974
- Expenses
- $93,636
- Assets (EOY)
- $121,487
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2017
- Tax period
- 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017
- Principal officer
-
D Randall Gibson
- Mailing address
- P O Box 9585Louisville KY 40209
- Website
- www.mcla.org
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
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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2024 LEGAL SERVICES
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2022 JUSTICE
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2023 JUSTICE
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2022 I80 LEGAL SERVICES
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2022 Expungement Clinics: Since 2014, Access Justice has provided free legal services through weekly or monthly clinics to low-income individuals and families throughout metro Louisville. With a network of over forty volunteer attorneys and with an office in the Portland neighborhood. Access Justice's legal clinics educate participants on how to resolve a broad range of legal problems . LBF's grant will provide funds to allow Access Justice to reach and serve individuals in need of expungements.
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2024 UNRESTRICTED
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2024 I80 LEGAL SERVICES
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2023 Expungement Clinics - Since 2014, Access Justice has provided free legal services through weekly or monthly clinics to low-income individuals and families throughout metro Louisville. With a network of over forty volunteer attorneys and with an office in the Portland neighborhood. Access Justice's legal clinics educate participants on how to resolve a broad range of legal problems. LBF's grant will provide funds to allow Access Justice to reach and serve individuals in need of expungements.
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$6,758
2024 UNRESTRICTED
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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.