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VOLUNTEER LAWYER PROGRAM OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC

EIN 01-0718469 FORT WAYNE, IN

Revenue 2025
$426,448
Expenses 2025
$390,531

Program services were 85.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80
Classification
1000
Street
347 W BERRY ST

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 · 2025

Mission

To cultivate a culture of pro bono service within the community dedicated to meeting the legal need of low-income families and individuals.

  • Pro bono Legal Services: The Volunteer Lawyer Program of Northeast Indiana, Inc. is a 501(c)3 nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to cultivate a culture of pro bono service within the community dedicated to meeting the legal need of low-income families and individuals. In 2025, 131 volunteer attorneys donated 1,229 hours of legal assistance to low income residents. These legal services saved our low income residents in excess of $307,240 in legal charges that attorneys customarily bill for services in their private practices. Please see Schedule O for additional information.

    Expenses $278,002 · Revenue $396

  • Adult Guardianship Services: The VLP established 37 new guardianships for incapacitated people during 2025. Family guardianship days in Allen Superior Court is an efficient and streamlined system that allows for up to ten hearings to take place on a single court day.

    Expenses $36,967 · Revenue $1,590

  • Housing Stability Services: VLP attorneys provide eviction assistance in the nine-county region of Northeast Indiana. Advice, representation in rent and damages hearings, and on-site courthouse clinics opening in seven of the nine counties represented gave rural residents access to eviction assistance services. By partnering with social service agencies within the various counties, and attorney staffed legal-aid services, VLP was able to use its resources to make a difference in 2025. Funding was made available to staff a volunteer coordinator for the housing stability program along with a part-time navigator (paralegal referral specialist for housing/eviction assistance). During 2025, 144 individuals were assisted by this program.

    Expenses $17,353

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Angel Metro

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $50,989
    From this org
    $50,989
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ruth de Wit retired

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $32,820
    From this org
    $32,308
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $512
    Hours/week
    40

  • Mike Setlak

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Yvette Gaff Kleven

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sadie Dillon-Baatz

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Martin Seifert

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anne Simerman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Avery Judge

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nathan Williams

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Damian Dom Gosheff

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Cook Magistrate

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jonathan Cress

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kenton Kiracofe Judge

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Patrick Jessup Judge

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Travis Friend

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Antonette Payne

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jesus Trevino Magistrate

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrew Kruse

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Holly Brady Judge

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bradley Stiles

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Adrienne Baltes

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steve Miller

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jared Baker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elizabeth Deckard

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Cowan

    Director

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $426,448
    Expenses
    $390,531
    Contributions
    $414,040
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $409,557
    Expenses
    $400,177
    Contributions
    $392,744
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $307,077
    Expenses
    $381,110
    Contributions
    $288,206
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $351,499
    Expenses
    $339,806
    Contributions
    $333,553
    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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $316,999
    Expenses
    $288,270
    Assets (EOY)
    $362,533

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $253,227
    Expenses
    $302,870
    Assets (EOY)
    $325,426

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $335,682
    Expenses
    $315,752
    Assets (EOY)
    $381,705

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

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

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.