LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MICHIGAN

EIN 38-1958131 FLINT, MI

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Revenue 2025: $5,610,992
Expenses 2025: $5,473,028

Program services were 85.4% 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: 436 S SAGINAW ST STE 101

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 free civil legal assistance to low-income individuals and to use legal skills to address the causes and effect of poverty.

Provision of free civil legal assistance to low-income individuals.

Expenses $4,672,992 · Revenue $25,256

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.

Bill CowdryBILL COWDRY

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Daniel StrakaDANIEL STRAKA

VICE PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Eunice ErvinEUNICE ERVIN

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Andrea RossiANDREA ROSSI

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Shantele ElmySHANTELE ELMY

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Eric MeadERIC MEAD

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Valerie Kutz-OtwayVALERIE KUTZ-OTWAY

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Laverne WilliamsLAVERNE WILLIAMS

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Gary ShirelyGARY SHIRELY

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Thomas FancherTHOMAS FANCHER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Pauline MancePAULINE MANCE

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Jessica DavisJESSICA DAVIS

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Erwin MeiersERWIN MEIERS

Past - President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Jessica RiskeyJESSICA RISKEY

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Jill NylanderJILL NYLANDER

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$132,681

From this org

$121,719

From related orgs

$0

Other

$10,962

Hours/week

40
Jody BlackburnJODY BLACKBURN

CFO

Total calculated

$102,764

From this org

$93,769

From related orgs

$0

Other

$8,995

Hours/week

40
Amy MeilinkAMY MEILINK

DIRECTING ATTORNEY

Total calculated

$121,677

From this org

$111,156

From related orgs

$0

Other

$10,521

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

2025

Revenue

$5,610,992

Expenses

$5,473,028

Contributions

$5,388,475

Grants paid

$0
2024

Revenue

$5,743,190

Expenses

$5,774,327

Contributions

$5,687,213

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$5,629,603

Expenses

$5,435,685

Contributions

$5,587,207

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$4,642,700

Expenses

$4,401,947

Contributions

$4,629,854

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$5,610,992	$5,473,028	$5,388,475	$0
2024	$5,743,190	$5,774,327	$5,687,213	$0
2023	$5,629,603	$5,435,685	$5,587,207	$0
2022	$4,642,700	$4,401,947	$4,629,854	$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

$4,042,760

Expenses

$3,960,195

Assets (EOY)

$2,742,961
2020 · 990

Revenue

$3,810,567

Expenses

$3,631,741

Assets (EOY)

$2,337,339
2019 · 990

Revenue

$3,191,568

Expenses

$3,145,417

Assets (EOY)

$1,526,677
2018 · 990

Revenue

$3,003,252

Expenses

$2,864,670

Assets (EOY)

$1,337,937
2017 · 990

Revenue

$2,473,648

Expenses

$2,510,703

Assets (EOY)

$1,237,087
2016 · 990

Revenue

$2,417,432

Expenses

$2,540,097

Assets (EOY)

$1,327,172
2015 · 990

Revenue

$2,591,802

Expenses

$2,546,549

Assets (EOY)

$1,436,077
2014 · 990

Revenue

$2,499,365

Expenses

$2,436,939

Assets (EOY)

$1,308,545
2013 · 990

Revenue

$2,271,631

Expenses

$2,258,745

Assets (EOY)

$1,311,491
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$2,340,099

Assets (EOY)

$1,294,000

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$4,042,760	$3,960,195	$2,742,961
2020	990	$3,810,567	$3,631,741	$2,337,339
2019	990	$3,191,568	$3,145,417	$1,526,677
2018	990	$3,003,252	$2,864,670	$1,337,937
2017	990	$2,473,648	$2,510,703	$1,237,087
2016	990	$2,417,432	$2,540,097	$1,327,172
2015	990	$2,591,802	$2,546,549	$1,436,077
2014	990	$2,499,365	$2,436,939	$1,308,545
2013	990	$2,271,631	$2,258,745	$1,311,491
2012	990	not reported	$2,340,099	$1,294,000

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

LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

$6,430,605

2024 CIVIL LEGAL AID
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

$5,918,727

2022 CIVIL LEGAL AID
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

$5,897,727

2023 CIVIL LEGAL AID
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

$2,374,909

2024 CIVIL LEGAL AID
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

$2,339,868

2022 CIVIL LEGAL AID
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

$2,285,530

2023 CIVIL LEGAL AID
MICHIGAN STATE BAR FOUNDATION

$916,301

2024 LEGAL SERVICES FOR LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS FACING EVICTION
MICHIGAN STATE BAR FOUNDATION

$429,572

2024 MSHDA - EDP - LEGAL SERVICES FOR LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS FACING EVICTION
MICHIGAN STATE BAR FOUNDATION

$416,843

2024 LEGAL SERVICES FOR LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS
MICHIGAN STATE BAR FOUNDATION

$400,631

2023 MSHDA - EDP - LEGAL SERVICES FOR LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS FACING EVICTION

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.