COMMUNITY LAWYERS INC

EIN 55-0898050 COMPTON, CA

Revenue 2024: $207,595
Expenses 2024: $224,385

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
NTEE code: I99
Classification: 1000
Street: 1216 E COMPTON BLVD

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

Community Lawyers, Inc. provides underserved low- and no-income community members access to legal representation, pro-bono legal clinics, and community advocacy and engagement.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Based in the City of Compton, CLIs mission is to increase legal service delivery in underserved communities. The organization, founded in 2005, realizes the challenges that individuals face in finding quality, ethical and affordable attorneys. CLI provides access to critical legal resources primarily to the communities of Compton, the South Los Angeles, and Southeast Los Angeles County. In January 2009, CLI launched the Community Lawyers Access Center (CLAC). Since its launch, CLAC has provided legal information and services to more than 4,600 individuals and conducted more than 1,300 legal clinics, workshops, and information sessions. CLAC operates primarily with the support of volunteer attorneys, students, and paralegals to educate individuals about their legal rights and responsibilities.

Community Lawyers, Inc. (Organization) is a California not-for-profit corporation.The Organization was incorporation in May 2005. The Organization provides underserved and low and no-income community members access to legal representations, pro-bono legal clinics, and community advocacy and engagement.

Expenses $201,608

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.

Rosa Hirji

Executive Dir.

Total calculated

$28,600

From this org

$28,600

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

10
Luz Herrera

Treasurer

Total calculated

$15,420

From this org

$15,420

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

1
Lance Filer

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Walter Quinteros

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Caroline Lopez

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Jan Thomas

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Dr Marlyn Gilbert-Banks

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Kat Zuber

Secretary

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

2024

Revenue

$207,595

Expenses

$224,385

Contributions

$91,657

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$159,444

Expenses

$192,360

Contributions

$136,661

Grants paid

not reported
2022

Revenue

$253,104

Expenses

$186,400

Contributions

$251,055

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$207,595	$224,385	$91,657	$0
2023	$159,444	$192,360	$136,661	not reported
2022	$253,104	$186,400	$251,055	$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-EZ

Revenue

$91,209

Expenses

$200,041

Assets (EOY)

$88,062
2020 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$132,713

Expenses

$154,585

Assets (EOY)

$190,245
2019 · 990

Revenue

$213,063

Expenses

$158,171

Assets (EOY)

$124,098
2018 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$146,749

Expenses

$133,433

Assets (EOY)

$69,206
2017 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$101,637

Expenses

$101,938

Assets (EOY)

$55,890
2016 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$100,832

Expenses

$90,734

Assets (EOY)

$56,191
2015 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$80,540

Expenses

$98,713

Assets (EOY)

$46,093
2014 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$90,275

Expenses

$87,735

Assets (EOY)

$64,266
2013 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$73,323

Expenses

$66,289

Assets (EOY)

$61,726

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990-EZ	$91,209	$200,041	$88,062
2020	990-EZ	$132,713	$154,585	$190,245
2019	990	$213,063	$158,171	$124,098
2018	990-EZ	$146,749	$133,433	$69,206
2017	990-EZ	$101,637	$101,938	$55,890
2016	990-EZ	$100,832	$90,734	$56,191
2015	990-EZ	$80,540	$98,713	$46,093
2014	990-EZ	$90,275	$87,735	$64,266
2013	990-EZ	$73,323	$66,289	$61,726

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2011

Tax period: 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011
Principal officer: Luz Herrera
Mailing address: 1216 East Compton BoulevardCompton CA 90221
Website: www.community-lawyers.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT

$75,000

2022 SEE PART IV
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT

$45,000

2023 STRATEGY AND CAPACITY BUILDING
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT

$30,000

2024 CAPACITY BUILDING
CALIFORNIA ACCESS TO JUSTICE COMMISSION

$23,500

2024 Program Support

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.