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VOLUNTEER ATTORNEYS FOR RURAL NEVADANS

EIN 86-0857749 CARSON CITY, NV

Revenue 2023
$789,360
Expenses 2023
$522,536

Program services were 86.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
412 W JOHN ST STE C

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 · 2023

Mission

TO PROVIDE CIVIL LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO NEVADANS OF LIMITED MEANS BY FACILITATING THE PROVISION OF VOLUNTEER SERVICES BY ATTORNEYS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE CIVIL LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO NEVADANS OF LIMITED MEANS BY FACILITATING THE PROVISION FOR VOLUNTEER SERVICES BY ATTORNEYS.

  • THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM'S ASSISTANCE PROJECT SERVED 114 VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BY PROVIDING FREE LEGAL REPRESENTATION, BRIEF LEGAL SERVICES, CRISIS INTERVENTION, SAFETY PLANNING, INFORMATION AND REFERRALS FOR OTHER RESOURCES.

    Expenses $152,748 · Revenue $7,193

  • THE PRO BONO PROJECT (INCLUDING THE LEGAL AID FAIRS AND LAWYER IN THE LOBBY) SERVED OVER 1,500 LOW-INCOME PEOPLE BY PROVIDING FREE LEGAL SERVICES, COUNSEL AND ADVICE, INFORMATION AND REFERRALS FOR OTHER RESOURCES.

    Expenses $148,256 · Revenue $6,981

  • THE RURAL SENIOR LAW PROJECT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2018 TO PROVIDE FREE CIVIL SERVICES TO RURAL NEVADANS AGE 60 OR OLDER. THIS PROJECT PROVIDED SERVICES TO 163 SENIORS LIVING IN RURAL NEVADA IN 2022.

    Expenses $148,256 · Revenue $6,981

As filed on the 2023 return.

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.

  • JAMES W PUZEY

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • AUDREY P DAMONTE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • SANDRA-MAE PICKENS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • KARA M HAYES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MARILEE CATE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • SEVERIN CARLSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • SARAH BRADLEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $789,360
    Expenses
    $522,536
    Contributions
    $765,926
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $656,366
    Expenses
    $532,544
    Contributions
    $636,487
    Grants paid
    $7,758

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
    $723,376
    Expenses
    $570,757
    Assets (EOY)
    $529,622
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $698,292
    Expenses
    $567,159
    Assets (EOY)
    $375,105
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $638,985
    Expenses
    $581,792
    Assets (EOY)
    $249,607
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $582,189
    Expenses
    $544,191
    Assets (EOY)
    $184,853
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $574,355
    Expenses
    $591,150
    Assets (EOY)
    $144,970
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $654,070
    Expenses
    $629,210
    Assets (EOY)
    $140,334
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $633,896
    Expenses
    $596,381
    Assets (EOY)
    $110,878
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $466,353
    Expenses
    $492,320
    Assets (EOY)
    $72,280
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $468,229
    Expenses
    $495,625
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,066
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $549,128
    Assets (EOY)
    $128,967

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

  • LEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA

    $7,578

    2022 TO PROVIDE LEGAL ASSISSTANCE TO NEVADANS IN NEED.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.