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PEGASUS LEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN

EIN 46-0509986 ALBUQUERQUE, NM

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Revenue 2024
$1,493,321
Expenses 2024
$1,648,005

Program services were 79.6% 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
505 MARQUETTE AVE NW STE 1350

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 promote and defend the rights of children and youth to safe, stable homes, quality education and healthcare, and a voice in decisions that affect their lives.

  • This past year Pegasus continued its work as a legal resource for children, youth and their caregivers, and the community concerning the legal rights and needs of children and youth. In FY25, we served over 2,100 clients. Pegasus exclusively serves low-income New Mexicans who would not be able to afford an attorney, ensuring that the ability to afford an attorney is not a deciding factor in their life. Our clients are reflective of our state population, we serve individuals of all racial and ethnic identities, offer direct services in both Spanish and English, and translation services for other languages.Pegasus attorneys are specialists in childrens rights and family law including Kinship Guardianship, Adoption, Youth Law, Child Abuse & Neglect, Client Advocacy, and Systematic Advocacy. Our Kinship Guardianship Program (77.3% of cases in FY25) provides legal services to grandparents and other kinship caregivers taking care of children whose parents are unable or unwilling to provide them with proper care. Last year, our Kinship Guardianship cases had a 98% success rate indicating that Pegasus clients are awarded their Guardianship status by a judge and the legal protections that come with this status. As an extension of Our Kinship Guardianship Program, Pegasus is offering adoption services to kinship caregivers who have had a Kinship Guardianship Order for 24 months or longer, or who meet special circumstances such as when both parents of a child are deceased. In FY 25, adoption services accounted for 5.9% of cases.Our Youth Law Program (7.6% of cases in FY25) consists of two main tiers: Family law for young parents under 25 years old, and legal support for homeless, runaway, and/or incarcerated youth. Both tiers also support youth with mental health issues.Pegasus attorneys also represent children or youth who have experienced violence, abuse, neglect, or harm. Pegasus has a special focus on representation of Indian Children in the child welfare system and new services for undocumented youth. In FY25, we represented children on the Pueblos of Zuni, Santa Ana and Isleta. Abuse & Neglect services accounted for 9.2% of cases in FY25. We are currently training more Pegasus attorneys to take Abuse & Neglect cases as the need for such services is significant. Pegasus staffs a fully bilingual team of client advocates that provide free services to Pegasus clients. In FY25 our team connected clients to needed services including: - Social Security 21.2% - Documents & Identification 15.9% - Education Services 12.9% - Housing 9.1% - Counseling 8.3% - Food & Nutrition 7.6% - Healthcare 7.6% - Clothing & Diapers 2.3% - Other Services 15.1%Pegasus works to not only fulfill existing community needs but also takes action to redress systemic issues that produce the need for our services to begin with. In FY25, we partnered with policymakers to ensure that childrens needs and rights are taken into consideration in the development of state and local laws, policies, and regulations and we also litigated against service providers and public institutions who failed to provide adequate services to New Mexicos children and youth.

    Expenses $1,311,718 · Revenue $1,158,580

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.

  • Bette Fleishman

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $122,191
    From this org
    $118,439
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,752
    Hours/week
    32

  • Rebecca N Pott

    Controller

    Total calculated
    $40,802
    From this org
    $36,812
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,990
    Hours/week
    32

  • Robert Schwartz JD

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Darcy Bushnell

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Moses Winston

    Past Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David S Milton CPA

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Devin Mandell Kloster

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Elliot McCreary-Novak

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Hadley Pope

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lora Church MPA MS JD

    Director

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,493,321
    Expenses
    $1,648,005
    Contributions
    $314,058
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,771,048
    Expenses
    $1,335,271
    Contributions
    $699,283
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,224,274
    Expenses
    $1,126,354
    Contributions
    $352,029
    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
    $1,275,069
    Expenses
    $1,154,526
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,266,017

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,183,781
    Expenses
    $1,082,390
    Assets (EOY)
    $971,993

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,091,005
    Expenses
    $890,608
    Assets (EOY)
    $726,947

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $877,511
    Expenses
    $849,863
    Assets (EOY)
    $545,192

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,132,076
    Expenses
    $1,142,525
    Assets (EOY)
    $579,549

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,304,153
    Expenses
    $1,111,058
    Assets (EOY)
    $582,273

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $786,566
    Expenses
    $870,383
    Assets (EOY)
    $334,763

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.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.