EARL CARL INSTITUTE FOR LEGAL AND SOCIAL POLICY INC

EIN 76-0385044 HOUSTON, TX

Revenue 2024: $1,167,175
Expenses 2024: $498,162

Program services were 93.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
Classification: 1000
Street: 3100 CLEBURNE 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 · 2024

Mission

The mission of the institute is to empower underserved anddisenfranchised communities by addressing systemic social issuesthrough legal representation,research, education and advocacy.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The mission of the Institute is to empower underserved and disenfranchised communities by addressing systmatic social issues through legal representation,research,education and advocacy

: The goal is to promote housing stability and to increase generational wealth through the prevention of land loss as a result of failure to plan estates, foreclosures, clouds on title to property/land, and general inheritance issues and eviction defense to ensure housing stability. The program provides comprehensive legal services including heirship proceedings, estate planning, foreclosure prevention, and eviction defense. In 2024, the program expanded its community outreach through neighborhood canvassing to identify families at risk of land loss and connect them with legal services.

Revenue $180,594
Revenue $150,000
Revenue $150,000
Fort Bend County Civil Legal Services Project (providing civil legal services to low to moderate income residents of Fort Bend County and empowering self-represented litigants)

Revenue $140,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

Sherea McKenzie

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Bill C Littlejohn

Vice President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Carlton Perkins

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
McKen Carrington

Assistant Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Kesha Amos

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Samuel Louis

Assistant Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Marguerite Butler

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
James Douglas

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Constance Fain

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Warrington Goudeau

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Theophilus Theo Herrington

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Dannye Holley

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Prudence Smith

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Michael O Adams

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Marcus Esther

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Charisse Coleman

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Gail Mebane

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Kevin A Murray

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Yvette Colbert

Student Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Jasmine Dolcine

Student Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Laisha Harris

Student Member

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

$1,167,175

Expenses

$498,162

Contributions

$1,167,175

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$1,654,498

Expenses

$1,402,846

Contributions

$1,640,228

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$1,930,180

Expenses

$2,202,019

Contributions

$1,923,911

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$1,167,175	$498,162	$1,167,175	$0
2023	$1,654,498	$1,402,846	$1,640,228	$0
2022	$1,930,180	$2,202,019	$1,923,911	$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

$1,029,887

Expenses

$750,306

Assets (EOY)

$742,472
2020 · 990

Revenue

$830,842

Expenses

$570,371

Assets (EOY)

$462,891
2019 · 990

Revenue

$401,335

Expenses

$392,789

Assets (EOY)

$202,847
2018 · 990

Revenue

$414,853

Expenses

$329,642

Assets (EOY)

$194,224
2017 · 990

Revenue

$316,575

Expenses

$259,654

Assets (EOY)

$115,494
2016 · 990

Revenue

$349,713

Expenses

$355,891

Assets (EOY)

$56,029
2015 · 990

Revenue

$191,376

Expenses

$172,530

Assets (EOY)

$64,105
2014 · 990

Revenue

$154,648

Expenses

$165,705

Assets (EOY)

$44,618
2013 · 990

Revenue

$245,021

Expenses

$277,348

Assets (EOY)

$58,678
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$290,122

Assets (EOY)

$95,412

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$1,029,887	$750,306	$742,472
2020	990	$830,842	$570,371	$462,891
2019	990	$401,335	$392,789	$202,847
2018	990	$414,853	$329,642	$194,224
2017	990	$316,575	$259,654	$115,494
2016	990	$349,713	$355,891	$56,029
2015	990	$191,376	$172,530	$64,105
2014	990	$154,648	$165,705	$44,618
2013	990	$245,021	$277,348	$58,678
2012	990	not reported	$290,122	$95,412

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

TEXAS ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION

$197,124

2022
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION

$75,000

2024 SEE PART IV
TEXAS WOMENS FOUNDATION

$70,000

2022 TO FUND ECI'S SUPPORT OF THE YWI & YWAC IN HOUSTON
HOUSTON IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES COLLABORATIVE

$52,250

2024 citizenship boost
TEXAS ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION

$18,682

2024
TEXAS BAR FOUNDATION

$10,000

2022 HALO initiative

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.