VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT OF THE BOSTON BAR ASSOCIATION INC
EIN 22-2486215 BOSTON, MA
- Revenue 2025
- $3,983,215
- Expenses 2025
- $3,768,337
Program services were 85.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- I80Z
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 7 WINTHROP SQ
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).
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.
-
WILLIAM ROBERTS
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CHRISTOPHER CLARK
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RICHARD FERGUSON
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
HANTZLEY AUDATE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
CYNTHIA BELL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
DEBORAH HILL BORNHEIMER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
ANDREW H COHN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
DANIELLE CUNNINGHAM
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
BRIAN DUNPHY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
SARAH KELLY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
JASON H LISS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
CATHERINE LOMBARDO
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
DAPHNE LOPES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
DEE MULLEN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
STEVEN D POHL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
JOANNA ALLISON
EXEC. DIRECTOR & CLERK (THRU 10/25)
- Total calculated
- $208,360
- From this org
- $201,006
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $7,354
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $201,006
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $6,058
- Nontaxable benefits
- $1,296
- Filer's total
- $208,360
-
GERALDINE GRUVIS-PIZARRO
EXEC DIR/CLERK 10/25;DIR ADV PB 9/25
- Total calculated
- $175,326
- From this org
- $147,664
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $27,662
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $147,664
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $4,595
- Nontaxable benefits
- $23,067
- Filer's total
- $175,326
-
APRIL JONES
CHIEF FINANCE & OPERATIONS OFFICER
- Total calculated
- $189,317
- From this org
- $171,007
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $18,310
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $171,007
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $5,204
- Nontaxable benefits
- $13,106
- Filer's total
- $189,317
-
ILANA ZELTSER
SR. MANAGER OF FINANCE & OPERATIONS
- Total calculated
- $122,287
- From this org
- $105,931
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $16,356
- Hours/week
- 35
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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2025
- Revenue
- $3,983,215
- Expenses
- $3,768,337
- Contributions
- $3,819,679
- Grants paid
- $56,339
-
2024
- Revenue
- $4,497,506
- Expenses
- $3,993,402
- Contributions
- $4,359,149
- Grants paid
- $56,339
-
2023
- Revenue
- $5,287,755
- Expenses
- $5,076,480
- Contributions
- $5,211,871
- Grants paid
- $56,339
-
2022
- Revenue
- $5,165,374
- Expenses
- $4,822,533
- Contributions
- $5,143,862
- Grants paid
- $50,718
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.
Grants made
-
$56,339
2024 PRO BONO SERVICES
-
$56,339
2025 PRO BONO SERVICES
-
$56,339
2023 PRO BONO SERVICES
-
$50,718
2022 PRO BONO SERVICES
Grants received
-
$2,984,075
2024 CIVIL LEGAL AID
-
$2,958,768
2022 CIVIL LEGAL AID
-
$2,958,768
2023 CIVIL LEGAL AID
-
$210,000
2024 SUPPORT LEGAL AID
-
$175,000
2023 SUPPORT LEGAL AID
-
$175,000
2022 SUPPORT LEGAL AID
-
MASSACHUSETTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE
$49,995
2024 TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR LEGAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
-
$31,865
2022 UNRESTRICTED
-
$24,393
2023 UNRESTRICTED
-
$23,811
2024 UNRESTRICTED
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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 10 September 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.