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LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH DAKOTA

EIN 45-0336235 BISMARCK, ND

Revenue 2024
$3,104,297
Expenses 2024
$3,305,164

Program services were 81.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
4007 STATE ST STE 30

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

OUR TEAM COMPASSIONATELY AND RESPECTFULLY ADDRESSES THE LEGAL NEEDS OF VULNERABLE POPULATIONS TO PROVIDE TIMELY ACCESS TO JUSTICE EMPOWERING OUR COMMUNITY WITH EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY ADVICE, EDUCATION & REPRESENTATION TO LOW-INCOME NORTH DAKOTANS, AS WELL AS DISADVANTAGED ELDERLY ON AREAS OF CIVIL LAW.

  • WE HANDLED OVER 8,000 REQUESTS FOR LEGAL SERVICES, INCLUDING NEARLY 4,000 ONLINE SUBMISSIONS THROUGH OUR STATEWIDE INTAKE SYSTEM. OUR ATTORNEYS AND PARALEGALS PROVIDED ESSENTIAL LEGAL REPRESENTATION AND ADVICE TO LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES ACROSS NORTH DAKOTA. THIS PROGRAM ADDRESSED A WIDE RANGE OF CIVIL LEGAL ISSUES, INCLUDING HOUSING, CONSUMER PROTECTION, FAMILY LAW, AND ACCESS TO PUBLIC BENEFITS, ENSURING THAT VULNERABLE POPULATIONS HAD FAIR ACCESS TO JUSTICE, PROTECTION OF THEIR RIGHTS, AND OPPORTUNITIES TO STABILIZE AND IMPROVE THEIR LIVES.

    Expenses $1,771,601 · Revenue $376,092

  • WE PROVIDED SPECIALIZED LEGAL SERVICES TO 1,021 SENIORS, ASSISTING WITH HEALTHCARE DIRECTIVES, POWERS OF ATTORNEY, WILLS, AND ESTATE PLANNING, AS WELL AS OTHER CIVIL LEGAL MATTERS UNIQUE TO OLDER ADULTS. THESE SERVICES EMPOWER SENIORS TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS ABOUT THEIR HEALTHCARE, HOUSING, AND FINANCIAL AFFAIRS, IMPROVING THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE AND REDUCING THE RISK OF EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE.

    Expenses $548,788 · Revenue $426,422

  • THROUGH OUR DEDICATED VICTIM SERVICES PROGRAMS, WE SUPPORTED 199 VICTIMS AND FAMILIES IMPACTED BY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, AND OTHER CRIMES. OUR ATTORNEYS PROVIDED CRITICAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE, INCLUDING OBTAINING PROTECTION ORDERS, ADVOCATING IN COURT, AND CONNECTING CLIENTS WITH RESOURCES FOR SAFETY AND STABILITY. THESE SERVICES PLAYED A VITAL ROLE IN HELPING VICTIMS ACHIEVE JUSTICE AND REBUILD THEIR LIVES FREE FROM VIOLENCE AND FEAR.

    Expenses $372,769

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.

  • TRACY LAAVEG

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAUREL FORSBERG

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARY KAE KELSCH

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LENORA KUTZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LISA TOMLINSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIM WANG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SAMANTHA LINDGREN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GARY RAMSEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WADE ENGET

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK ZEHNACKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DANIELLE KRAUS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATIE PERLEBERG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEN LEE

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $139,725
    From this org
    $125,865
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,860
    Hours/week
    40

  • KIM KRAMER

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $84,919
    From this org
    $79,927
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,992
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,104,297
    Expenses
    $3,305,164
    Contributions
    $2,302,137
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,474,109
    Expenses
    $2,603,803
    Contributions
    $146,678
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,311,956
    Expenses
    $2,333,744
    Contributions
    $132,463
    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
    $2,319,514
    Expenses
    $2,314,768
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,052,682

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,799,628
    Expenses
    $2,047,006
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,431,078

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,744,117
    Expenses
    $2,028,352
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,197,282

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,841,589
    Expenses
    $1,964,483
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,816,216

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,582,836
    Expenses
    $1,933,741
    Assets (EOY)
    $919,061

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,648,783
    Expenses
    $1,709,320
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,260,652

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,197,308
    Expenses
    $1,629,095
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,340,219

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,514,840
    Expenses
    $1,589,533
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,518,840

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,621,986
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,624,644

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,717,353
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,408,682

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

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