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LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY

EIN 59-1163686 FORT MYERS, FL

Revenue 2024
$2,213,929
Expenses 2024
$1,295,390

Program services were 86.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
2400 FIRST ST STE 214

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 PROVIDE LEGAL SERVICES TO RESIDENTS OF LEE COUNTY, FLORIDA WHO MEET OUR FINANCIAL GUIDELINES. WE PROVIDE LEGAL SERVICES IN THE AREA OF FAMILY LAW, INCLUDING DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE, PATERNITY, ESTABLISHING PARENTING PLANS, AND STEP-PARENT ADOPTION.

  • 1.FAMILY LAW - SINCE 1967, LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY HAS FOUNDED ITS LEGAL REPUTATION ON THE REPRESENTATION OF FAMILIES WITH MINOR CHILDREN INVOLVED. PROTECTING THE RIGHTS AND WELFARE OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN DURING AND AFTER DIVORCE HAS BEEN A FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE OF THE ORGANIZATION. IN THE FISCAL YEAR 2023-2024, OUR ORGANIZATION SERVED 226 PEOPLE WITH FAMILY LAW ISSUES AND RECOVERED 436,177.07 IN 26 CASES WITH OUTCOMES THAT AFFECTED FAMILIES. THERE WERE 47 FAMILY LAW CASES REMAINING OPEN AT THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR. 2.IMMIGRATION LAW - ARPA GRANT-FUNDED 30-MONTH PROGRAM CONTINUATION. THE IMMIGRATION PROGRAM IS ONE OF THE FASTEST-GROWING PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN BY LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY, TO DATE. INITIATED TO HELP IMMIGRANT YOUTH WHO HAVE SUFFERED NEGLECT, ABUSE, OR ABANDONMENT TO BECOME LEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES, THROUGH THE SPECIAL IMMIGRANT JUVENILE STATUS (SIJS) PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP, CHILDREN UNDER AGE 18 ARE THEN PROTECTED FROM DEPORTATION FROM THE UNITED STATES. AGING OUT OF FOSTER CARE AT 18, THOSE YOUTH WHO HAVE BEEN AWARDED SIJS ARE ABLE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT, RENT A PLACE TO LIVE, AND CONTINUE TO LIVE AND WORK THEIR WAY TOWARD FULL CITIZENSHIP. IN FISCAL 2024, LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY SERVED 239 PEOPLE WITH IMMIGRATION ISSUES, INCLUDING CHILDREN AND FAMILIES. THERE WERE 40 IMMIGRATION CASES REMAINING OPEN AT THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR. 3.HOUSING LAW - AS A RESULT OF CATASTROPHIC HURRICANE IAN, THE HOUSING LAW PROGRAM SOUGHT TO ADVISE AND REPRESENT THOSE WHOSE HOMES WERE DESTROYED OR SO BADLY DAMAGED THAT INSURANCE AND CONTRACTOR ISSUES WERE DEEMED PREDATORY AND OFTEN FRAUDULENT. LANDLORD/TENANT ISSUES ALSO AROSE IN GREAT NUMBER, DUE TO THE UNSCRUPULOUS AVARICE OF LANDLORDS WHO WERE READY TO EVICT GOOD TENANTS SO THE LANDLORD COULD INCREASE RENT IN A SCARCE HOUSING MARKET. PROBLEMS CLIENTS FACED WITH UNSAFE LIVING CONDITIONS AND PROPERTY LOSS CONTINUE TO NEED LEGAL ADVICE, TO DATE. 44 PEOPLE WITH HOUSING ISSUES WERE SERVED IN FISCAL YEAR 2023, EXCLUSIVE OF THOOSE WHO WERE GIVEN LEGAL ADVICE AND COUNSEL THROUGH THE SELF HELP PROGRAMS IN LEE AND CHARLOTTE COUNTIES. 4.SELF HELP CENTERS OUR ORGANIZATION RUNS VIA ZOOM FOR LEE CLERK OF COURT AND CHARLOTTE CLERK OF COURT CONTINUE TO BE A VERY POPULAR OPTION FOR PEOPLE WHO CANNOT AFFORD AN ATTORNEY BUT NEED BRIEF LEGAL ADVICE. THIS FREE SERVICE SERVED A TOTAL OF 680 PEOPLE IN FISCAL 2024, 192 WITH FAMILY LAW ISSUES (118 IN LEE COUNTY, 74 IN CHARLOTTE COUNTY) AND 123 WITH HOUSING ISSUES (79 IN LEE COUNTY, 42 IN CHARLOTTE COUNTY.) THERE WERE 365 OTHERS SERVED IN THE SELF HELP CENTER PROGRAMS WHO HAD VARIOUS LEGAL PROBLEMS INCLUDING PROBATE, BANKRUPTCY, SMALL CLAIMS, AND MORE.

    Expenses $1,119,068

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • ANDREW BANYAI ESQ

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $124,277
    From this org
    $124,277
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • MARIA ALAIMOESQ

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.35

  • MATT DINKEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.35

  • ANASTASIJA PAK-GALVIN ESQ

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.8

  • BENJAMIN ABDULNOUR ESQ

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.19

  • DESTINEY SMITH ESQ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.35

  • FRANK TALTY ESQ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.35

  • JASON RIOS ESQ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.35

  • LUKE JOHNSON ESQ

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.8

  • PATRICIA TALTY ESQ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.35

  • BRUCE R CONNOLLY ESQ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.35

  • MARIANNE LEPERA ESQ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.35

  • TRAVIS RUSSELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

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
    $2,213,929
    Expenses
    $1,295,390
    Contributions
    $2,182,194
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,481,522
    Expenses
    $1,125,138
    Contributions
    $1,453,848
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,197,047
    Expenses
    $846,801
    Contributions
    $1,196,648
    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
    $734,609
    Expenses
    $649,667
    Assets (EOY)
    $846,714

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $739,389
    Expenses
    $640,104
    Assets (EOY)
    $770,155

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $659,660
    Expenses
    $653,293
    Assets (EOY)
    $770,827

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $605,953
    Expenses
    $567,945
    Assets (EOY)
    $660,751

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $539,711
    Expenses
    $504,934
    Assets (EOY)
    $616,447

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $491,623
    Expenses
    $516,356
    Assets (EOY)
    $584,927

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $522,272
    Expenses
    $547,654
    Assets (EOY)
    $606,703

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $519,922
    Expenses
    $512,636
    Assets (EOY)
    $625,961

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $517,968
    Expenses
    $530,386
    Assets (EOY)
    $619,797

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $548,845
    Assets (EOY)
    $637,677

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.