LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

I80

Classification

1000

Street

361 S MAIN ST

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

• THROUGH ITS PROGRAM SERVICES, LAWNY ADVANCES ITS MISSION OF INCREASING ACCESS TO JUSTICE BY PROVIDING FREE CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES TO LOW-INCOME RESIDENTS ACROSS A 14-COUNTY SERVICE AREA IN WESTERN NEW YORK. LAWNY ATTORNEYS AND ADVOCATES FOCUS ON PRESERVING HOUSING, SECURING ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE AND PUBLIC BENEFITS, PROTECTING SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, AND ADDRESSING OTHER ESSENTIALS OF LIFE. IN ADDITION TO DIRECT REPRESENTATION, LAWNY ENGAGES IN ADVOCACY, COMMUNITY EDUCATION, AND OUTREACH TO ENSURE THAT VULNERABLE POPULATIONS UNDERSTAND AND CAN EXERCISE THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS.

  Expenses $24,138,130 · Revenue $1,006

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.

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $25,803,017

  Expenses

  $25,826,014

  Contributions

  $25,723,678

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $21,634,354

  Expenses

  $21,619,980

  Contributions

  $21,573,188

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $19,885,833

  Expenses

  $19,828,547

  Contributions

  $19,808,260

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $16,091,660

  Expenses

  $16,355,088

  Contributions

  $16,052,861

  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

  $15,505,923

  Expenses

  $15,113,432

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,459,476

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $13,385,068

  Expenses

  $12,982,912

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,525,300

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $12,555,359

  Expenses

  $12,125,849

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,530,303

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,750,086

  Expenses

  $11,828,062

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,870,925

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,858,376

  Expenses

  $11,555,444

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,094,158

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,880,596

  Expenses

  $11,086,374

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,849,781

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,506,039

  Expenses

  $10,599,060

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,909,004

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,109,332

  Expenses

  $9,241,968

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,998,946

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,134,853

  Expenses

  $7,805,782

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,847,966

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $6,128,700

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,769,461

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

  $2,625,996

  2022 · CIVIL LEGAL AID

• LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

  $2,623,963

  2024 · CIVIL LEGAL AID

• LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

  $2,578,835

  2023 · CIVIL LEGAL AID

• COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK

  $491,405

  2024 · DIRECT SERVICE

• COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK

  $444,001

  2023 · DIRECT SERVICE

• COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK

  $408,541

  2022 · DIRECT SERVICE

• HUNGER SOLUTIONS NEW YORK INC

  $381,294

  2022 · Subcontractor

• UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC

  $97,154

  2022 · AGENCY ALLOCATION & GRANT

• UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC

  $73,438

  2023 · AGENCY ALLOCATION

• UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC

  $56,540

  2024 · ALLOCATION, ROC THE DAY

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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