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BENTON-FRANKLIN LEGAL AID SOCIETY

EIN 14-1843628 KENNEWICK, WA

Revenue 2024
$294,679
Expenses 2024
$290,640

Program services were 78.1% 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
5219 W CLEARWATER AVE STE 5

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 Benton-Franklin Legal Aid Society provides legal assistance to Qualified Low-Income individuals who would otherwise be denied access to the Justice system because of the inability to pay for the cost of counsel.

  • THE BENTON FRANKLIN LEGAL AID SOCIETY ARRANGED FOR LEGAL COUNSEL FOR QUALIFIED LOW INCOME INDIVIDUALS THAT OTHERWISE COULD NOT AFFORD LEGAL COUNSEL. THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF LEGAL SERVICES WERE PERFORMED DURING THE YEAR BY LOCAL ATTORNEYS AND THEIR STAFF. THE TOTAL VALUE OF 1,978 LEGAL SERVICE HOURS DONATED AMOUNTED TO APPROXIMATELY $593,280. THE SOCIETY ALSO TEACHES A FAMILY LAW CLASS TO ASSIST INDIVIDUALS PREPARING THEIR OWN FORMS. THE SOCIETY ALSO PROVIDES COURT DOCUMENTS AND FORMS.

    Expenses $227,088

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.

  • Barbara Potter

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $63,815
    From this org
    $63,815
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Lori Mendoza

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bronson Brown

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sherry Rice

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robert Schultz

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ruby Ochoa

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ernesto Toscano

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Diana Garcia

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Claudia Lux

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rebecca Saitz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dave Peterson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Trujillo

    Director

    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
    $294,679
    Expenses
    $290,640
    Contributions
    $288,815
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $205,260
    Expenses
    $219,917
    Contributions
    $204,148
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $156,945
    Expenses
    $174,627
    Contributions
    $156,945
    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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $185,378
    Expenses
    $152,238
    Assets (EOY)
    $64,959

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $153,140
    Expenses
    $129,891
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,760

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $120,699
    Expenses
    $123,573
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,436

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $107,253
    Expenses
    $105,433
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,284

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $85,688
    Expenses
    $87,211
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,162

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $85,565
    Expenses
    $96,948
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,242

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $93,739
    Expenses
    $87,563
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,011

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $92,702
    Expenses
    $83,247
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,607

  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $82,764
    Expenses
    $79,075
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,976

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.