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NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY

EIN 81-3880382 KANSAS CITY, MO

Revenue 2023
$1,334,389
Expenses 2023
$1,037,382

Program services were 90.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80
Classification
1000
Street
815 W 53RD TER

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

NLS performs legal work to allow blighted and abandoned urban core properties to be turned into good quality housing for low income families. We also assist and support the efforts of neighborhood organizations in the urban core area to address abandoned housing issues.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Neighborhood Legal Support (NLS) mission is to provide legal assistance and other support to empower urban core neighborhoods to grow stronger.

  • For the last six years, Neighborhood Legal Support of Kansas City has run a focused community development project in the Lykins Neighborhood in the Historic Northeast District of Kansas City. We have organized over 40 project partners to bring a wide array of resources to the neighborhood to remediate blight. Working with residents, police, City codes inspectors and numerous other partners, we identify blighted and abandoned homes in the neighborhood. We then bring litigation to either require the existing owners of the properties to convert them into good quality homes or to have a rehabber selected by the neighborhood do so. The entire process is focused on empowerment of the neighborhood residents. The residents, for example, chose the focus area and decide which rehabbers will be awarded which properties to develop. Neighborhood residents make all major project decisions. We see our role as empowering neighborhood residents, to the greatest extent possible, to implement their vision for community development in their neighborhood. The project has been successful. Some highlights of the project to date, we have acquired over 50 blighted properties in the neighborhood for participating rehabbers and builders; we have litigation pending to acquire 40 additional properties; we have agreements with 16 additional property owners to rehab their properties themselves; and we have an option Agreement with the City that allows the neighborhood to purchase 19 additional vacant properties that were formerly owned by the Land Bank. All told there are over 140 properties in the project. Due to the success of the project, we have had to expand our focus area twice. Now the focus area includes the entire Lykins Neighborhood, and, as of the end of November 2022, we had litigation pending to acquire all remaining blighted and abandoned houses in the neighborhood. Indeed, we now have a bounty program in which if any neighborhood resident can find a property in Lykins that is blighted and abandoned and not part of the project, we will pay them $100. Our goal is to have the remaining blighted and abandoned houses completely rehabbed by the end of 2025. Violent crime in Lykins is down by more than 20% in the last three years. Although there are numerous causes of this, we believe that the substantial reduction of blight in the neighborhood is one of the primary causes; and, in 2020, the American Planners Association recognized the Lykins Focused Community Development Project as the Outstanding Community Planning Initiative for 2020 for the State of Missouri.

    Expenses $935,928 · Grants $191,452 · Revenue $159,349

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.

  • Alissa Cannady

    Deputy Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $112,522
    From this org
    $104,456
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,066
    Hours/week
    40

  • Gregg Lombardi

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $94,219
    From this org
    $77,096
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,123
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kathy Persley

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Terrence Waldren

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ward Katz

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Schulte

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Todd Lieberman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Martha Gershun

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Miguel Terreros

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,334,389
    Expenses
    $1,037,382
    Contributions
    $1,172,541
    Grants paid
    $133,306
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,280,312
    Expenses
    $795,189
    Contributions
    $1,266,427
    Grants paid
    $180,777

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
    $571,673
    Expenses
    $566,709
    Assets (EOY)
    $600,055

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $801,938
    Expenses
    $518,385
    Assets (EOY)
    $622,940

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $766,514
    Expenses
    $276,857
    Assets (EOY)
    $538,761

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $108,451
    Expenses
    $85,445
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,131

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $118,875
    Expenses
    $95,227
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,218

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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