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PHILADELPHIA LAWYERS FOR SOCIAL EQUITY

EIN 45-2980014 PHILADELPHIA, PA

Revenue 2024
$1,306,724
Expenses 2024
$1,219,502

Program services were 85.1% 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
230 S BROAD ST STE 1102

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

PLSE seeks a more equitable social environment for those with criminal records through individual representation strategic litigation community education research and advocacy. PLSE does this by seeking expungements in criminal court and pardons from the Governor educating elected business and community leaders; empowering and organizing under-resourced communities; and leading legislative administrative and systemic reform.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PLSE provides education to the public about the creation dissemination and destruction of criminal history records and the inter-generational harm those records cause; and partners with community organizations to help low-income individuals obtain expungements and pardons.

  • Criminal Records Expungement Project - Employers landlords financial and academic institutions professional associations licensing boards and others frequently use past criminal record histories to deny opportunities to qualified applicants. This happens even when the event occurred decades earlier or did not result in a conviction. This prevents many qualified individuals from achieving financial and social stability and negatively affects their families and communities. This is especially true for low-income individuals. In Pennsylvania only judges can expunge delete or seal remove from the public record criminal record information and many individuals cannot afford an attorney to assist with a process to which they are legally entitled. The Criminal Record Expungement Project addresses this inequality by providing pro bono legal assistance to low-income Philadelphians with criminal records. In FY2025 PLSE assisted 1,851 low-income individuals from all 47 residential zip codes in Philadelphia. We primarily use a community-based clinic model to engage new clients. We provided brief service information or referral and for those not income eligible for 416 people. And of the 1,851 individuals who came to us 1,435 became new clients. We filed a total of 6,973 expungement petitions. Approximately 96% of all such petitions are granted by the court.

    Expenses $304,970 · Revenue $343,862

  • Pardon Project - With few exceptions expunging a conviction first requires a pardon from the Governor. PLSE began the Pardon Project in 2018 when the process cost money and resulted in failure for over 90% of all applicants . Today thanks to reforms driven by PLSE the application is free online and written mostly in Plain English. PLSE accepted 310 new clients for pardon services in FY25. Its Pardon Project Steering Committee all with lived experience in the criminal justice system continues to thrive and serve as a source of community support for pardon applicants both PLSE clients and others. All participants completing an intake for the Criminal Record Expungement Project are also screened for pardon eligibility.

    Expenses $464,348 · Revenue $485,009

  • Community Education - PLSE conducted 15 training sessions for individuals interested in volunteering as Pardon Coaches. PLSE manages the website www.PardonMePA.org offering information to individuals and community groups statewide. The organization also expanded its Video Library to assist individuals seeking record-clearing volunteers and communities looking to establish Pardon Projects.

    Expenses $268,295 · Revenue $296,701

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.

  • Ana Pujols McKee MD

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Reverend Dr Michelle Anne Simmons

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Hillary Weinstein

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Glenn D Barnes Esq

    Board Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jeffrey N Brown

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nicole Hunt

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Reverend Dr Leslie Callahan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ryan Hancock Esq

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kathleen Lee

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeffrey Rosenthal Esq

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Taylor Pacheco

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $91,090
    From this org
    $91,090
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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
    $1,306,724
    Expenses
    $1,219,502
    Contributions
    $1,225,724
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $979,819
    Expenses
    $1,374,622
    Contributions
    $948,525
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $777,261
    Expenses
    $1,436,537
    Contributions
    $688,195
    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
    $1,511,168
    Expenses
    $1,012,652
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,077,801

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $768,823
    Expenses
    $683,600
    Assets (EOY)
    $546,963

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2015

Tax period
1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016
Principal officer
Ryan Allen Hancock
Mailing address
1501 Cherry StreetPhiladelphia PA 19102
Website
plsephilly.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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