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HOUSTON LAWYER REFERRAL SERVICE INC

EIN 74-1872485 HOUSTON, TX

Revenue 2024
$751,394
Expenses 2024
$465,462

Program services were 92.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
06
Classification
2000
Street
1111 BAGBY SUITE FLB200

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

Refer general public to lawyers

Activities or mission (Part I)

REFER GENERAL PUBLIC TO LAWYERS.

  • Assisting the general public who are seeking help in solving their legal problems and to facilitate public accesss to lawyers for legal information. Approximately 100,000 individuals are assisted each year.

    Expenses $428,219 · Revenue $659,156

  • Revenue $92,238

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.

  • Hon Cheryl Elliott Thornton

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Quentin Smith

    PRESIDENT - ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Ciara Perritano

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Robert Painter

    IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Heath Novosad

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • CARTER DUGAN

    BOD-TERM EXPIRING 06.30.25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • DAVID DORRIS

    BOD-TERM EXPIRING 06.30.25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • SAMANTHA TORRES

    BOD-TERM EXPIRING 06.30.25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • DOMINIQUE VARNER

    BOD-TERM EXPIRING 06.30.26

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • THAISON HUA

    BOD-TERM EXPIRING 06.30.25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Jose Lopez

    BOD-TERM EXPIRING 06.30.25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Monica Alvarado

    BOD-TERM EXPIRING 06.30.25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Traci Gibson

    BOD-TERM EXPIRING 06.30.25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Nelson Ocampo

    BOD-TERM EXPIRING 06.30.25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Mike Lowenberg

    BOD-TERM EXPIRING 06.30.25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Thomas Frashier

    BOD-TERM EXPIRING 06.30.25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Rosa Reyes

    BOD-TERM EXPIRING 06.30.25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Brandon Cofield

    BOD-TERM EXPIRING 06.30.26

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Altagracia McDonald

    BOD-TERM EXPIRING 06.30.26

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Karen Ramsey

    HLRS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $110,650
    From this org
    $110,650
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • David E Harrell Jr

    HBA - PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Vinh Ho

    HBA - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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
    $751,394
    Expenses
    $465,462
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $42,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $436,680
    Expenses
    $393,325
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $524,757
    Expenses
    $387,682
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $35,000

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
    $431,245
    Expenses
    $398,124
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,260,642

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $404,015
    Expenses
    $346,677
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,396,133

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $433,376
    Expenses
    $397,699
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,184,025

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $451,194
    Expenses
    $437,769
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,149,332

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $479,834
    Expenses
    $430,507
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,115,443

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $550,784
    Expenses
    $443,159
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,064,109

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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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

Declared as related by

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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.