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LEGAL PREP CHARTER ACADEMIES

EIN 27-1071296 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$4,560,823
Expenses 2024
$4,846,805

Program services were 89.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B29
Classification
2000
Street
4319 W WASHINGTON BLVD

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 · 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.

  • OSCAR ROMERO

    VP/PRESIDENT-ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • HEATHER FINE

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CRISTEL TURNER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • RATHER STANTON

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JASON BROWN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • KALIA COLEMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • MARK DEMONTE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • RYAN DUNIGAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • PATRICK HENDRICKS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JOSE ISASI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • KRISTOPHER KEYS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CRYSTAL MCCUNE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • PAULA MORENO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • ALEJANDRO ORTEGA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • DAVID SUSLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • COURTNEY WELTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • BRYAN WESTHOFF

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • ELIE ZENNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • SAMUEL FINKELSTEIN

    CEO & EX-OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $200,534
    From this org
    $155,789
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $44,745
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,789
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,861
    Nontaxable benefits
    $35,884
    Filer's total
    $200,534

  • LAURA MILLER

    DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT & EX-OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $71,937
    From this org
    $59,346
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,591
    Hours/week
    40

  • JOSEPH WILLIAMS

    PRINCIPAL

    Total calculated
    $128,830
    From this org
    $119,326
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,504
    Hours/week
    40

  • MELISSA ALMAZAN

    BUSINESS MANAGER & ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $126,871
    From this org
    $102,352
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,519
    Hours/week
    40

  • HEATHER DAVIS

    DIRECTOR OF INSTRUCTION AND CURRICULUM

    Total calculated
    $120,294
    From this org
    $103,857
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,437
    Hours/week
    40

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. 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,560,823
    Expenses
    $4,846,805
    Contributions
    $4,511,032
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,985,107
    Expenses
    $4,982,018
    Contributions
    $4,935,233
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,864,249
    Expenses
    $4,445,939
    Contributions
    $4,757,013
    Grants paid
    $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
    $4,710,183
    Expenses
    $4,534,159
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,701,442

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,231,992
    Expenses
    $4,213,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,715,442

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,870,085
    Expenses
    $4,748,595
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,641,433

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,713,254
    Expenses
    $4,966,397
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,813,428

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,567,107
    Expenses
    $4,859,293
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,248,979

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,435,028
    Expenses
    $4,297,419
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,446,874

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,117,959
    Expenses
    $4,154,744
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,392,740

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,388,896
    Expenses
    $3,617,713
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,848,116

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,799,411
    Expenses
    $3,014,032
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,047,333

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,567,442
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,516,140

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

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