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SOUTH CAROLINA LEGAL SERVICES

EIN 57-0485205 COLUMBIA, SC

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Revenue 2025
$13,340,266
Expenses 2025
$13,135,196

Program services were 90.4% 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
2109 BULL 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 · 2025

Mission

SOUTH CAROLINA LEGAL SERVICES IS A STATEWIDE LAW FIRM THAT PROVIDES CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS AND REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF LOW INCOME SOUTH CAROLINIANS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO THOSE INVOLVED IN NONCRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS WHO ARE UNABLE TO AFFORD LEGAL COUNSEL

  • South Carolina Legal Services (SCLS) provides free legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income South Carolinians. South Carolina Legal Services provides free legal services in a wide variety of civil (non-criminal) legal matters to eligible low income residents of South Carolina. SCLS is a non-profit corporation, funded by grants from the federally funded Legal Services Corporation, the South Carolina Bar Foundation, local United Ways, State court filing fees, Foundations and other federal, state and local funding. SCLS serves residents of all areas of the state with field offices located throughout South Carolina.

    Expenses $11,880,342 · Revenue $21,094

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.

  • Angela Deanne Rowe

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Charles Boykin

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Chelsey Hucker

    First Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Dennise M Gmerek

    Second Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Maridolores Valentin

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Breon Cm Walker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Carol Teresa Richardson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Daniel E Hunt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • David C Sereque

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Edwina L Bing-Hines

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Frances A James-Davis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Gail Kelley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Gena Phillips Ervin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Jeff Weston

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Jody A Bedenbaugh

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • John Charles Payne

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Kelly M Jolley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Miliken Matthews

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Raynique Syas

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Ron Hilton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Shalai Alysha McConnell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Stacey Coleman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Suzanne Chapman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Tracy Evans

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Denise Boyd

    Chief Financial Officer

    Total calculated
    $187,320
    From this org
    $165,467
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,853
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $165,467
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,868
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,985
    Filer's total
    $187,320

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
    $13,340,266
    Expenses
    $13,135,196
    Contributions
    $12,986,246
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $13,776,679
    Expenses
    $13,606,027
    Contributions
    $13,371,049
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $14,089,229
    Expenses
    $13,511,966
    Contributions
    $13,789,653
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,233,235
    Expenses
    $11,967,890
    Contributions
    $12,190,560
    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
    $11,660,522
    Expenses
    $11,644,463
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,465,887

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,988,053
    Expenses
    $10,897,809
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,515,829

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,789,878
    Expenses
    $11,190,591
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,033,400

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,357,607
    Expenses
    $10,381,853
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,513,072

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,604,665
    Expenses
    $9,840,986
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,476,218

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,915,648
    Expenses
    $9,548,266
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,636,904

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,943,027
    Expenses
    $9,291,802
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,328,775

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,774,160
    Expenses
    $8,743,314
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,686,986

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,289,285
    Expenses
    $8,722,322
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,708,691

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $8,875,489
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,324,891

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

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.