LEGAL AID SOCIETY

EIN 13-5562265 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2023: $415,813,177
Expenses 2023: $405,558,235

Program services were 91.7% 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: 199 WATER STREET

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 · 2023

Mission

THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY IS A PRIVATE, NOT-FOR-PROFIT LEGAL SERVICES ORGANIZATION, THE OLDEST AND LARGEST IN THE NATION, DEDICATED SINCE 1876 TO PROVIDING QUALITY LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO LOW-INCOME NEW YORKERS. (MISSION CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)IT IS DEDICATED TO ONE SIMPLE BUT POWERFUL BELIEF: THAT NO NEW YORKER SHOULD BE DENIED ACCESS TO JUSTICE BECAUSE OF POVERTY. DURING THE YEAR, THE SOCIETY HANDLED MORE THAN 208,607 INDIVIDUAL CASES AND MATTERS AND PROVIDED A COMPREHENSIVE RANGE OF LEGAL SERVICES IN THREE AREAS: THE CIVIL, CRIMINAL AND JUVENILE RIGHTS PRACTICES. UNLIKE THE SOCIETY'S CRIMINAL AND JUVENILE RIGHTS PRACTICES, WHICH ARE LEGALLY MANDATED AND SUPPORTED BY THE GOVERNMENT, THE CIVIL PRACTICE RELIES HEAVILY ON PRIVATE CONTRIBUTIONS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE QUALITY LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO LOW-INCOME NEW YORKERS.

CRIMINAL PRACTICE - REPRESENTED NYC INDIGENT CLIENTS INVOLVING CRIMINAL DEFENSE TRIAL, APPELLATE, POST-CONVICTION AND PAROLE REVOCATION DEFENSE MATTERS. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THE CRIMINAL PRACTICE WORKED ON APPROXIMATELY 126,303 CLIENT MATTERS THIS YEAR.

Expenses $220,930,249
CIVIL PRACTICE - PROVIDED CIVIL LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO LOW-INCOME NEW YORKERS AND WORKED ON APPROXIMATELY 59,000 CLIENT MATTERS THIS YEAR.

Expenses $98,706,740 · Revenue $17,087
JUVENILE RIGHTS PRACTICE - REPRESENTED CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS WHO ARE THE SUBJECT OF ABUSE AND NEGLECT, DELINQUENCY AND OTHER MATTERS IN THE NYC FAMILY COURT. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THE JUVENILE RIGHTS PRACTICE WORKED ON APPROXIMATELY 23,304 ONGOING CLIENT MATTERS THIS YEAR.

Expenses $52,270,331

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

RICHARD F ALBERT

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
DEBORAH N ARCHER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
CHRISTOPHER D BELELIEU

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
BARRY A BOHRER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JOHN K CARROLL

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
NANCY CHUNG

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
EVA W COLE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
ROGER A COOPER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
SARAH COYNE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JENNA M DABBS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MATTHEW DILLER

DIRECTOR (THRU 12/13/23)

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MARY EATON

DIRECTOR (FROM 1/19/24)

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
SCOTT A EDELMAN

DIRECTOR (THRU 12/13/23)

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MAURICIO ESPANA

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
NATASHA I FAPOHUNDA

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
EDWARD FLANDERS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JEFFREY A FUISZ

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MATTHEW FURMAN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
RAJ GANDESHA

DIRECTOR (FROM 1/19/24)

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JEFFREY GLEN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MIA N GONZALEZ

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MEAGHAN GRAGG

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
CAROL GREENE-VINCENT

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
HELEN GUGEL

DIRECTOR (FROM 1/19/24)

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
ADAM HAKKI

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

2023

Revenue

$415,813,177

Expenses

$405,558,235

Contributions

$415,013,229

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$376,584,946

Expenses

$377,158,851

Contributions

$370,268,776

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2023	$415,813,177	$405,558,235	$415,013,229	$0
2022	$376,584,946	$377,158,851	$370,268,776	$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

$351,396,267

Expenses

$354,863,201

Assets (EOY)

$149,533,601
2020 · 990

Revenue

$327,362,757

Expenses

$334,238,631

Assets (EOY)

$132,073,969
2019 · 990

Revenue

$330,763,746

Expenses

$322,197,200

Assets (EOY)

$130,702,954
2018 · 990

Revenue

$304,622,575

Expenses

$294,227,793

Assets (EOY)

$117,912,182
2017 · 990

Revenue

$289,626,203

Expenses

$272,125,516

Assets (EOY)

$104,895,069
2017 · 990

Revenue

$289,626,203

Expenses

$272,125,516

Assets (EOY)

$104,895,069
2016 · 990

Revenue

$265,646,743

Expenses

$269,437,833

Assets (EOY)

$91,196,958
2015 · 990

Revenue

$258,002,041

Expenses

$246,721,513

Assets (EOY)

$78,084,797
2014 · 990

Revenue

$241,157,423

Expenses

$235,983,501

Assets (EOY)

$68,407,869
2013 · 990

Revenue

$224,721,646

Expenses

$224,045,431

Assets (EOY)

$66,079,860

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$351,396,267	$354,863,201	$149,533,601
2020	990	$327,362,757	$334,238,631	$132,073,969
2019	990	$330,763,746	$322,197,200	$130,702,954
2018	990	$304,622,575	$294,227,793	$117,912,182
2017	990	$289,626,203	$272,125,516	$104,895,069
2017	990	$289,626,203	$272,125,516	$104,895,069
2016	990	$265,646,743	$269,437,833	$91,196,958
2015	990	$258,002,041	$246,721,513	$78,084,797
2014	990	$241,157,423	$235,983,501	$68,407,869
2013	990	$224,721,646	$224,045,431	$66,079,860

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 CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

$8,000,500

2023 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY

$3,160,844

2023 ATLAS IS COMPRISED OF THREE PROGRAMS: ATLAS FUNCTIONAL FAMILY THERAPY, ATLAS INNOVATION FUND, AND ATLAS HOPE (HEALING, OPPORTUNITY, PROGRESS, EMPOWERMENT). ADDITIONALLY, UWNYC PROVIDES CAPACITY BUILDING SERVICES TO ALL PARTNERS. THE MISSION OF ATLAS IS TO ENHANCE PUBLIC SAFETY BY PROVIDING VOLUNTARY, NON-COURT MANDATED PROGRAMS THROUGH COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND PLACE-BASED STRATEGIES IN NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HAVE HISTORICALLY BORNE THE BRUNT OF VIOLENCE AND OVER-ENFORCEMENT
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION

$2,280,000

2023 POVERTY RELIEF
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION

$1,500,000

2024 POVERTY RELIEF
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$1,130,538

2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
LEGAL SERVICES NYC

$1,075,836

2024 CIVIL SERVICES
LEGAL SERVICES NYC

$1,006,192

2023 CIVIL SERVICES
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION

$950,000

2022 POVERTY RELIEF
LEGAL SERVICES NYC

$839,957

2022 CIVIL SERVICES
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$622,860

2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.