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LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MO INC

EIN 43-0816805 SAINT LOUIS, MO

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Revenue 2024
$14,004,689
Expenses 2024
$15,467,100

Program services were 82.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I800
Classification
1000
Street
4232 FOREST PARK AVE

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

PARTNERING TO IMPROVE LIVES AND PROMOTE FAIRNESS WE ACHIEVED A 97% SUCCESS RATE HELPING THOSE IN LEGAL NEED, MOSTLY WOMEN WITH CHILDREN AND ABOUT 62% PERSONS OF COLOR, OVERCOME BARRIERS TO SAFETY AND STABILITY AND OBTAIN $20.5M IN MONETARY BENEFITS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

WE ADVANCE JUSTICE THROUGH LEGAL REPRESENTATION, EDUCATION AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES.

  • HEALTH: ENSURING PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITIES RECEIVE THE HEALTH CARE THEY NEED, RESOURCES TO FEED THEIR FAMILIES AND OTHER PUBLIC BENEFITS, INCLUDING LEGAL NEEDS FOR PERSONS LIVING WITH MENTAL ILLNESS. IN 2024, WE PROVIDED LEGAL ASSISTANCE WHICH HELPED 2,392 CLIENTS AND THEIR HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS. THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY LEGAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS, OUTREACH, COLLABORATIONS, AND REFERRALS, PEOPLE LEARN THEIR RIGHTS AND PREVENT LOSS OF HEALTH CARE COVERAGE, WHICH HELPED ANOTHER 2,921 PEOPLE.

    Expenses $2,265,866

  • SAFETY: OUR FREE LEGAL REPRESENTATION ASSISTS SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ESCAPE THEIR CRUEL ABUSERS. IT NOT ONLY SAVES THE VICTIMS LIVES BUT ALSO SAVES THEIR CHILDREN, AND STOPS A FUTURE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE. WE AIDED 2,116 VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS IN COMPLETED CASES COVERING ALL ASPECTS OF FAMILY LAW, INCLUDING PROTECTIVE ORDERS. OUR COMMUNITY LEGAL EDUCATION, OUTREACH, COLLABORATIONS, AND REFERRALS FOR NEEDY PEOPLE AND OTHER SERVICE PROVIDERS, HELPED ANOTHER 6,273 PEOPLE. BY ADDRESSING SYSTEMIC LEGAL PROBLEMS IMPACTING COMMUNITY MEMBERS' SAFETY WE HELP PREVENT FUTURE ABUSE.

    Expenses $3,629,304

  • BASIC NEEDS: WE REDUCE HOMELESSNESS THROUGH EVICTION DEFENSE AND HELP THE MARGINALIZED OBTAIN SERVICES TO MEET THEIR BASIC NEEDS. SERVICES PROVIDED TO VETERANS, ELDERLY, UNACCOMPANIED MINORS, AND IMMIGRANTS, AMONG OTHERS, HELPED 2,214 PEOPLE AND THEIR HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS IN COMPLETED CIVIL LEGAL CASES (NOTE: THIS INCLUDES CLIENTS, HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS UNDER 18, AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS 18 AND OLDER). EDUCATING THE COMMUNITY ON THEIR RIGHTS TO MEET THEIR BASIC NEEDS THROUGH LEGAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS, OUTREACH, COLLABORATION, AND REFERRALS TO OTHER RESOURCES HELPED ANOTHER 4,674 PEOPLE. WE HELP MEET BASIC NEEDS OF THE LARGER COMMUNITY THROUGH OUR SYSTEMIC LEGAL WORK.

    Expenses $4,144,055 · Grants $384,636

  • EDUCATION: CHILDREN'S FUTURE SELF-SUFFICIENCY DEPENDS ON MEETING THEIR EDUCATIONAL NEEDS. WE FOCUS ON PROVIDING LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO THOSE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS OR FACING UNFAIR DISCIPLINE. UTILIZING A RACIAL EQUITY LENS TO HELP STOP THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE, WE HELPED 574 CHILDREN/YOUTH AND THEIR HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS IN COMPLETED CASES. OUR COMMUNITY LEGAL EDUCATION PROVIDES KNOWLEDGE OF EDUCATIONAL LAW, THE FIRST STEP TO SEEKING HELP. THESE EDUCATION PROGRAMS ALONG WITH OUTREACH, COLLABORATIONS, AND REFERRALS TO OTHER RESOURCES, HELPED ANOTHER 3,105 PEOPLE. WE EXPAND THE RESULTS OF OUR LEGAL ADVOCACY BY ADDRESSING SYSTEMIC LEGAL PROBLEMS IMPACTING COMMUNITY MEMBERS RELATED TO EDUCATION.

    Expenses $888,829 · Revenue $5,000

  • ECONOMIC STABILITY: ENFORCING FAIR CONSUMER PROTECTIONS AND COMBATTING CONSUMER SCAMS, HELPING SMALL BUSINESSES FORM AND GROW, AND HELPING NEIGHBORHOODS FIX AND PREVENT VACANT PROPERTY PROBLEMS ALL CREATE ECONOMIC STABILITY. THIS LEGAL WORK HELPED 886 PEOPLE AND THEIR HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS IN COMPLETED CASES FOR CLIENTS. PEOPLE LEARN ABOUT LEGAL REMEDIES THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY LEGAL EDUCATION ON THESE ECONOMIC STABILITY ISSUES, OUTREACH, COLLABORATIONS, AND REFERRALS TO OTHER RESOURCES, HELPING ANOTHER 15,969 PEOPLE. OUR SYSTEMIC LEGAL ADVOCACY HELPS REMOVE BARRIERS TO ECONOMIC STABILITY.

    Expenses $1,893,313 · Revenue $22,585

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.

  • T Bennett Burkemper

    DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jerome Dobson

    DIRECTOR/CO-VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paula Finlay

    DIRECTOR/CO-VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dorothy Rush

    DIRECTOR/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sandra Keys

    DIRECTOR/ASSISTANT SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Hickey

    DIRECTOR/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karen R McCarthy

    DIRECTOR/TREASURER (THRU 6/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gary Burger

    DIRECTOR/ASST TREASURER (THRU 6/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ryan Turnage

    DIRECTOR/ASSISTANT TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christina Fletcher

    DIRECTOR/EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Candy O'Connell

    DIRECTOR/EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Vanessa Allen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mike Cherba

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • William Dodson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Emily Elam

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Hayes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Agnes Hill

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Holliday

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alexandra Johnson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pamela Johnson

    DIRECTOR (THRU 6/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lawrence Kettenbach

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steve Lenivy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shana Lindsey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrea Lowe

    DIRECTOR (THRU 6/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andy Marty

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $14,004,689
    Expenses
    $15,467,100
    Contributions
    $10,938,191
    Grants paid
    $384,636
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $15,316,263
    Expenses
    $15,335,011
    Contributions
    $12,533,903
    Grants paid
    $653,831
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $46,934,343
    Expenses
    $11,059,545
    Contributions
    $45,680,333
    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
    $9,965,950
    Expenses
    $9,173,840
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,856,307

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,439,595
    Expenses
    $8,332,172
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,362,402

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,830,441
    Expenses
    $8,279,777
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,448,638

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,922,200
    Expenses
    $8,078,075
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,891,525

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,387,517
    Expenses
    $7,364,090
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,038,295

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,379,302
    Expenses
    $7,108,706
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,627,579

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

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