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PUBLIC INTEREST LAW INITIATIVE

EIN 36-3059660 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2024
$1,610,119
Expenses 2024
$1,518,128

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
I80
Classification
1200
Street
105 W MADISON ST STE 610

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

PILI engages, inspires and empowers those advancing equal access to justice.

  • PILI operated the Law Student Internship & Graduate Fellowship, Alumni and Pro Bono Programs through which it connected law students, law school graduates and members of the Illinois legal community with public interest law and pro bono service opportunities to assist individuals, families and communities in need with their legal issues.

    Expenses $1,262,203 · Grants $431,927 · Revenue $1,070

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.

  • Michael Bergmann

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $160,912
    From this org
    $146,667
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,245
    Hours/week
    50

  • Kyle Petersen

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lisa McCraw

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Elizabeth Lewis

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark O'Meara

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael Cramer

    DEI Officer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sioban Albiol

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kimberly Barton

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Bergmann

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Myles Berman

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah Bernstein

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Bourke

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Traci Braun

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Perry Browder

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Callahan

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alison Conlon

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Erie

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • William Essig

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kevin Fee

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matt Furton

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mitch Gilfillan

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charles Golbert

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Donyelle Gray

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Greenwalt

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christopher Hall

    Member-at-Large

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,610,119
    Expenses
    $1,518,128
    Contributions
    $1,471,897
    Grants paid
    $431,927
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,417,774
    Expenses
    $1,385,251
    Contributions
    $1,331,539
    Grants paid
    $386,750
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,351,674
    Expenses
    $1,245,838
    Contributions
    $1,291,902
    Grants paid
    $345,768

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
    $1,324,867
    Expenses
    $1,107,202
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,294,470

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,149,011
    Expenses
    $963,287
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,256,676

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,018,224
    Expenses
    $970,984
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,901,548

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $993,556
    Expenses
    $953,624
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,647,462

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $877,446
    Expenses
    $845,102
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,666,858

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $752,838
    Expenses
    $728,097
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,590,545

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $630,667
    Expenses
    $678,459
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,514,285

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $636,570
    Expenses
    $602,919
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,517,047

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $543,634
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,428,084

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.