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LAVENDER LEGAL CENTER

EIN 85-3467956 CEDAR RAPIDS, IA

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Revenue 2024
$156,119
Expenses 2024
$140,041

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 31

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

Primary exempt purpose

Public interest law firm

  • Lavender Legal Center provides free or extremely low-cost legal, advocacy, and referral services to low-income LGBTQ+ Iowans. Lavender began in December 2020. In 2024, Lavender served 185 people.

    Expenses $140,041 · Grants $93,250

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.

  • Kendra Weston

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $55,575
    Compensation
    $55,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $575
    Hours/week
    35

  • Alison Gowans

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Jensen

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lindsey Piper

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jakob Raveg

    Board Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Samantha Wepking

    Board Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Holly Stevenson

    Board Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Aria Huizenga

    Board Member at Large

    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
    $156,119
    Expenses
    $140,041
    Contributions
    $155,599
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $121,384
    Expenses
    $81,230
    Contributions
    $121,327
    Grants paid
    not reported

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022

Tax period
1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023
Principal officer
Kendra Weston
Mailing address
PO Box 31Cedar Rapids IA 52406
Website
https://www.lavenderlegalcenter.org/

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 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

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 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.