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ERIE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION

EIN 16-1337417 BUFFALO, NY

Revenue 2023
$5,812,508
Expenses 2023
$5,593,664

Program services were 96.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I83Z
Classification
1000
Street
438 MAIN ST FL 7TH

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 · 2023

Mission

PROVIDE QUALITY FREE CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES FOR LOW INCOME PEOPLE AND SMALLER NOT FOR PROFIT GROUPS AND TO EFFECTIVELY INVOLVE VOLUNTEERS IN THE DELIVERY OF THOSE SERVICES.

  • THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES LEGAL SERVICES FOR LOW INCOME RESIDENTS AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. IN 2020, APPROXIMATELY 354 ATTORNEYS PROVIDED OVER 2,526 HRS IN VOLUNTEER TIME TO ASSIST CLIENTS IN CIVIL AND OTHER LEGAL MATTERS. TOTAL CLIENTS ASSISTED WAS ABOUT 3,767 AND 2,767 CASES WERE CLOSED BY STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS.

    Expenses $5,382,159 · Revenue $3,651

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Brain R Welsh Esq

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Katie Ireland

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kara Hanzlik

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Colleen Eniis Gough

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robert Conklin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gretchen Gonzalez

    Executive Director/CEO/Dep

    Total calculated
    $139,204
    From this org
    $139,204
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Rev Charles D Fryer

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gary R Gaffney ESQ

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lauren R Mendolera ESQ

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bernice Phillips-Jackson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leonardo Sette-Camara ESQ

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John J Weinholtz ESQ

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ifalewa Popoola ESQ

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Siana J Mclean

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kevin Hogan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Aalok Karambelkar

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lee Redeye

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anaiss Llonek

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joshua Feinstein

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jody Briandi

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sean O' Brien

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melinda R Saran ESQ

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ketherine J Bestine ESQ

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,812,508
    Expenses
    $5,593,664
    Contributions
    $5,784,698
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,661,755
    Expenses
    $4,650,854
    Contributions
    $4,633,367
    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
    $4,393,216
    Expenses
    $4,240,609
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,988,348

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,151,098
    Expenses
    $3,888,730
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,942,113

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,903,591
    Expenses
    $3,792,788
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,563,149

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,090,683
    Expenses
    $3,630,176
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,467,518

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,804,680
    Expenses
    $2,730,591
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,062,830

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,889,383
    Expenses
    $1,772,822
    Assets (EOY)
    $492,896

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,561,959
    Expenses
    $1,505,861
    Assets (EOY)
    $527,364

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,340,725
    Expenses
    $1,362,093
    Assets (EOY)
    $363,071

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,237,325
    Expenses
    $1,172,198
    Assets (EOY)
    $294,694

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,096,465
    Assets (EOY)
    $334,727

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 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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.