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NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

EIN 52-0858001 WASHINGTON, DC

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Revenue 2024
$6,120,647
Expenses 2024
$6,120,386

Program services were 89.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
Street
64 NEW YORK AVE NE STE 180

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

NLSP ENABLES UNDERSERVED DC RESIDENTS TO MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD IN THE COURTS AND OTHER FORUMS WHERE THEIR RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS ARE AT STAKE, TO SECURE FAIR AND LASTING SOLUTIONS TO THEIR PROBLEMS AND TO ATTAIN THEIR INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, AND COMMUNITY GOALS.

  • NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM (NLSP) PROVIDES FREE LEGAL ADVICE AND REPRESENTATION ON CIVIL MATTERS TO LOW-INCOME RESIDENTS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. ITS AREAS OF WORK INCLUDE FAMILY LAW, HOUSING, PUBLIC BENEFITS, CONSUMER ISSUES AND BARRIERS TO EMPLOYMENT. NLSP HANDLES CASES BENEFITING ADULTS AND CHILDREN. INDIVIDUALS ALSO BENEFITED FROM EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS ABOUT THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIE, REFERRALS, TRAININGS, AND ONE-ON-ONE LEGAL INFORMATIONAL SESSIONS.

    Expenses $5,496,734 · Grants $188,968

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Karen Newton Cole

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $150,498
    From this org
    $150,498
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $150,498
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $150,498

  • Kathy Hollins Fields

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $109,034
    From this org
    $109,034
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    55

  • Anne Ford

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wilson Mudge

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cheryl Zeigler

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cassidy Waskowicz

    DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $105,913
    From this org
    $105,913
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Caren Webb

    DIRECTOR OF LITIGATION AND ADVOCACY

    Total calculated
    $136,408
    From this org
    $136,408
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Sara Rearden

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eric Humes

    LAY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lyzka Delacruz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Astor Heaven

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kevin Malone

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paula Scott

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • April Williams

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tyra Matthews

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maureen Browne

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kira Ford

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Vanessa Hayes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Samuel Kaplan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melissa Zappala

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,120,647
    Expenses
    $6,120,386
    Contributions
    $6,209,006
    Grants paid
    $188,968
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,459,802
    Expenses
    $5,268,862
    Contributions
    $5,468,325
    Grants paid
    $33,400
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,086,402
    Expenses
    $4,724,179
    Contributions
    $4,921,069
    Grants paid
    $90,574

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
    $4,593,603
    Expenses
    $3,771,245
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,596,357

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,163,799
    Expenses
    $3,070,720
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,838,994

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,168,147
    Expenses
    $2,984,779
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,132,871

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,454,180
    Expenses
    $2,588,735
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,142,386

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,523,873
    Expenses
    $2,535,504
    Assets (EOY)
    $953,646

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,292,387
    Expenses
    $2,085,444
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,074,140

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,006,120
    Expenses
    $1,878,739
    Assets (EOY)
    $958,257

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,700,067
    Expenses
    $1,614,549
    Assets (EOY)
    $717,773

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,519,613
    Expenses
    $1,519,159
    Assets (EOY)
    $434,290

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,772,827
    Assets (EOY)
    $453,225

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

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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.