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LEGAL COUNSEL FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN

EIN 27-3006526 SEATTLE, WA

Revenue 2023
$4,209,293
Expenses 2023
$2,472,828

Program services were 86.1% 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
600 1ST AVE STE 330 PMB 803248

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 · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Emily Meltzer

    Director of Development and Communications

    Total calculated
    $113,325
    From this org
    $106,011
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,314
    Hours/week
    40

  • Erin Lovell

    Executive Director, LCYC President and Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $111,182
    From this org
    $110,113
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,069
    Hours/week
    40

  • Alexandra Narvaez

    Youth Access to Counsel Lead Attorney

    Total calculated
    $104,039
    From this org
    $102,903
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,136
    Hours/week
    40

  • Rhea Yo

    Director Legal Services, Youth Homelessness

    Total calculated
    $102,342
    From this org
    $101,261
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,081
    Hours/week
    40

  • Michelle Bagshaw

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brandi McNeil

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Josh Walker

    Board Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Manja Sachet

    Board Member, LCYC Vice President and Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rojine Rudio

    LCYC Vice President and Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Zhi Li

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lily Clifton

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Catherine Gerlach

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Libby Teerink

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,209,293
    Expenses
    $2,472,828
    Contributions
    $3,573,254
    Grants paid
    $154,974
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,708,587
    Expenses
    $2,089,520
    Contributions
    $3,154,811
    Grants paid
    $39,639

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

  • Housing Justice Collective

    $23,800

    2023 The purpose of this grant is provide systemic advocacy work in advancing minors' access to housing in Washington.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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.