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LEGAL AID OF WESTERN MISSOURI

EIN 43-0824638 KANSAS CITY, MO

Revenue 2024
$13,394,838
Expenses 2024
$13,718,899

Program services were 83.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80Z
Classification
1000
Street
4001 DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR STE 3

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).

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.

  • Alicia M Johnson

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $169,960
    From this org
    $155,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,960
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $5,291
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,669
    Filer's total
    $169,960

  • James Smith

    Director of Lit.

    Total calculated
    $140,287
    From this org
    $125,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,287
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Christopher Giffin

    Director of IT

    Total calculated
    $132,448
    From this org
    $118,655
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,793
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Pamela Bhend

    Managing Attorney

    Total calculated
    $129,926
    From this org
    $107,662
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,264
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Silya Shaw

    Deputy Director

    Total calculated
    $127,754
    From this org
    $113,471
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,283
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Tama Byrnes

    Director of Finance

    Total calculated
    $109,582
    From this org
    $100,270
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,312
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $100,270
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $2,060
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,252
    Filer's total
    $109,582

  • Freddy Mawyin

    Dir of Finance

    Total calculated
    $103,618
    From this org
    $100,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,618
    Hours/week
    19

  • Gary Abram

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lindsey Bachman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Aleksandra Bogdanovic

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Amber Christ

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Keegan Tinney

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Linda Brown

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Amy Fowler

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kathy Mason

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Vicki Grooms

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Seema Chawla

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Nataly Patterson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Angela McIntyre

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anika Hickman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Beatriz Ibarra

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brody Kempton

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Judge Charles Curless

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Monique Alvarado-Arellano

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matthew McLaughlin

    Board Member

    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 — 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
    $13,394,838
    Expenses
    $13,718,899
    Contributions
    $11,307,612
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $13,143,968
    Expenses
    $12,061,955
    Contributions
    $11,084,199
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $52,249,354
    Expenses
    $11,375,920
    Contributions
    $51,333,096
    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.

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.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2022 return

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 10 September 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.