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LEGAL AID OF WESTERN MICHIGAN

EIN 38-2156874 GRAND RAPIDS, MI

Revenue 2025
$7,252,997
Expenses 2025
$7,125,144

Program services were 84.8% 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
25 DIVISION AVE S STE 300

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.

  • Hannah Earl

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jacque Schafer

    At Large Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jim Boerigter

    Attorney Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tracey W Brame

    Attorney Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Caressa Bryant

    Community Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mike Callahan

    Attorney Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Angelique Camfield

    Attorney member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mike Campbell

    Board Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Meyer

    Board President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Damien Sanchez

    Attorney Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cindy VanderKodde

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Konjoh Konjoh

    Community Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rich Cherry

    Attorney Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Angela Zuniga

    Community Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alvin Bacon Jr

    Community Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary Alice Adams

    Community Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Brunner

    Attorney Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Hon Susan Dobrich

    Attorney member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pamela Hoekwater

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $177,820
    From this org
    $146,687
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,133
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $146,687
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,515
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,618
    Filer's total
    $177,820

  • Deborah Nichols

    Finance Manager

    Total calculated
    $19,817
    From this org
    $16,170
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,647
    Hours/week
    35

  • Jason O'Brien

    Director of Operations

    Total calculated
    $126,568
    From this org
    $100,071
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,497
    Hours/week
    35

  • Donald Roberts

    Managing Attorney

    Total calculated
    $127,951
    From this org
    $101,512
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,439
    Hours/week
    35

  • John Smith

    Managing Attorney

    Total calculated
    $138,639
    From this org
    $112,290
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,349
    Hours/week
    35

  • Karen Diesing

    Director of Litigation

    Total calculated
    $140,115
    From this org
    $112,127
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,988
    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
    $7,252,997
    Expenses
    $7,125,144
    Contributions
    $7,053,980
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,231,577
    Expenses
    $7,141,229
    Contributions
    $7,034,449
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,427,957
    Expenses
    $7,192,866
    Contributions
    $7,268,685
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,734,940
    Expenses
    $6,454,832
    Contributions
    $6,656,597
    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.

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

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.