LAW SCHOOL YES WE CAN

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B90

Classification

1000

Street

950 S CHERRY ST STE 508

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

• BACKGROUND-LSYWC WAS FOUNDED TO IMPROVE DIVERSITY IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION. IT IS THE FIRST LAW SCHOOL DIVERSITY PIPELINE PROGRAM OF ITS KIND IN COLORADO, A PROGRAM THAT TARGETS HARD WORKING COLLEGE STUDENTS FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS: 68% OF OUR FELLOWS ARE FIRST GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS AND 35% ARE FIRST-GENERATION HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES. EACH YEAR, LSYWC SELECTS UP TO 25 RISING COLLEGE STUDENTS AS FELLOWS. LSYWC MATCHES EACH FELLOW WITH THREE MENTORS: ONE SENIOR LEVEL JUDGE OR ATTORNEY, ONE MID-LEVEL ATTORNEY, AND ONE LAW STUDENT. THESE MENTORS MAKE A COMMITMENT TO GUIDE THEIR FELLOWS THROUGHOUT COLLEGE WITH THE GOAL OF HELPING THEM RECEIVE ADMISSION TO THE LAW SCHOOL OR GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THEIR CHOICE. LSYWC PROVIDES FELLOWS WITH VALUABLE SKILL-BUILDING WORKSHOPS AND FACILITATES EXPOSURE OPPORTUNITIES TO PREPARE FELLOWS FOR SUCCESS AS FUTURE COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS LEADERS. WE PROVIDE RESOURCES FOR FELLOWS TO TAKE THE MEYERS BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR (MBTI) & EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE TESTS TO ASSIST IN THEIR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. ALL FELLOWS ALSO ATTEND A MINI LAW SCHOOL PRESENTED BY CU LAW. WE ARRANGE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR FELLOWS TO TAKE BASELINE LSAT TESTS, LSAT PREPARATION COURSES, AND OTHER PRE-LAW WORKSHOPS, SOME OF WHICH ARE PRESENTED BY LSYWC BOARD MEMBERS, AND OTHERS, BY PROFESSORS FROM CU LAW AND DU LAW. OUR IMPACT IS CENTERED AROUND: (1) ACCESS TO EQUITABLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR FELLOWS, (2) MENTORS WHO SHARE THEIR HURDLES AND SUCCESSES IN A SYSTEM NOT NECESSARILY DESIGNED FOR DIVERSITY, (3) THE CREATION OF A COMMUNITY FOCUSED ON A SHARED MISSION, (4) OUTREACH THROUGH RECRUITMENT, PROGRAMMING, AND COMMUNITY EVENTS, AND (5) SUPPORT FROM LSYWC SPONSORS AND THEIR NETWORKS. THIS MEANS THAT ACQUIRING A SINGLE NEW SPONSOR OR FELLOW (AND MENTOR TEAM) CAN HAVE A CASCADING EFFECT IN CREATING AWARENESS AND CHANGE WITHIN THE COLORADO COMMUNITY. DURING 2024, LSYWC AMASSED APPROXIMATELY 40,000 VOLUNTEER HOURS, DELIVERED OVER 20 LSYWC WORKSHOPS, SUPPORTED OVER 300 MENTORS, MENTORED OVER 100 FELLOWS & CONNECTED WITH OVER 30 JUDICIAL MENTORS ACROSS THE NATION, INCUDING FIVE OF THE SEVEN COLORADO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. LSYWC HELPED FACILITATE 17 INTERNSHIPS IN VARIOUS STAGES OF LAW SCHOOL WITH 5 ALUMNI FELLOWS GRADUATING FROM LAW SCHOOL. THERE IS AN 83% RETENTION RATE WITHIN THE PROGRAM AND A 97% COLLEGE GRADUATION RATE. THE CONTINUING PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DENVER LAW FIRM COALITION FOR RACIAL EQUITY PROVIDES FINANCIAL AND IN-KIND SUPPORT TO OUR PROGRAM FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS. MISSION: THE MISSION OF LSYWC IS TO DIVERSIFY THE COLORADO LEGAL PROFESSION BY FURTHERING THE LEGAL EDUCATION OF HARD WORKING, LOW INCOME, AND DIVERSE COLLEGE STUDENTS. THE LSYWC CURRICULUM PROMOTES THE PRE-LAW EDUCATION AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF ITS FELLOWS. EACH LSYWC FELLOW HAS A MENTOR TEAM THAT HELPS GUIDE FELLOWS THROUGH COLLEGE AND THE PRE-LAW ADMISSIONS PROCESS. POPULATION SERVED: LSYWC SERVES A DIVERSE, LOW-INCOME GROUP OF STUDENTS IN OUR COMMUNITY. MOST OF OUR STUDENTS ARE FROM SINGLE PARENT, LOW INCOME, IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES. THE LSYWC OVERALL FELLOW RACE/ETHNICITY IS 63% HISPANIC/LATINX, 19% BLACK, 10% WHITE, 5% ASIAN, AND 3% NATIVE AMERICAN/AMERICAN INDIAN. THE LSYWC OVERALL GENDER IS 20% MALE AND 80% FEMALE.

  Expenses $85,396

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.

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

  $220,214

  Expenses

  $179,776

  Contributions

  $220,214

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $235,137

  Expenses

  $198,224

  Contributions

  $235,137

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $239,782

  Expenses

  $208,075

  Contributions

  $239,782

  Grants paid

  $300

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

  $201,838

  Expenses

  $162,480

  Assets (EOY)

  $156,397

• 2020 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $105,635

  Expenses

  $111,719

  Assets (EOY)

  $116,340

• 2019 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $145,892

  Expenses

  $76,817

  Assets (EOY)

  $122,362

• 2018 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $74,021

  Expenses

  $67,017

  Assets (EOY)

  $53,287

• 2017 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $60,015

  Expenses

  $40,490

  Assets (EOY)

  $47,530

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $35,662

  Expenses

  $14,585

  Assets (EOY)

  $28,005

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

• DENVER FOUNDATION

  $52,200

  2023 · EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

• DENVER FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2024 · EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

• COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION

  $12,884

  2023 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION

  $10,317

  2022 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION

  $7,226

  2024 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• LAWSCHOOL ADMISSIONS COUNCIL INC

  $6,000

  2024 · PIPELINE GRANT

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $5,000

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

• DENVER FOUNDATION

  $0

  2022 · EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

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