NonprofitsLegal Aid Society Inc

Legal Aid Society Inc

LOUISVILLE, KY

Total revenue

$6.1M

Total expenses

$6.9M

Net assets

$2.7M

Grants received

$14.6M

98 grants

EIN

610537626

Tax year

2024

Mission

Founded in 1921, legal aid society's mission is to make justice accessible to all, regardless of financial status. We provide free civil legal help on issues related to income, family, housing, safety, and health.

Programs

3 programs

Provide free legal services t0 indigent individuals on civil legal; problems that preserve the home of & maintain economic stability of individuals and families. In 2023, we served 4,531 individuals on issues involving evictions, other housing issues, government benefits, or homelessness.

Expenses: $717K

Ensure that eligible members of underserved populations have equal access to the services of legal aid society by identifying populations facing enhanced barriers to accessing civil legal services due to factors such as age, sex, disability, veteran status, involvement in the criminal legal system, immigration status, geographic barriers, or communication limitations.in 2023, we served 2,044 individuals on community empowerment issues.

Expenses: $847K

The legal aid society also provides a variety of direct program legal services related to the organization's mission through the following units;economic stability; intake and brief services; volunteer lawyer program. In 2023, 15,271 clients were provided direct services through these programs.

Expenses: $2.4M

Financials

FY 2024

Revenue

Contributions & grants$6.0M
Program service revenue
Investment income$49K
Other revenue$17K
Total revenue$6.1M

Expenses

Grants paid$108K
Salaries & benefits$5.3M
Fundraising$547K
Other expenses$1.5M
Total expenses$6.9M
Total assets$5.2M
Net assets$2.7M

People

29 listed

NameRoleCompensation

JEFFERSON COULTER

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Board

$137K

40 hrs/wk

KELLY KRUCKI

CFO (TO 09/24)

Board

$64K

40 hrs/wk

ANGELA BOWENS

CFO (FROM 08/24)

Board

$40K

40 hrs/wk

CYNTHIA W YOUNG ESQ

TREASURER

Board

1 hrs/wk

ANN ANDERSON

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

JACQUELINE BAKER

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

SUSAN BREWER

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

MICHAEL BROOKS PHD

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

ANGELA CURRY

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

LAUREL S DOHENY ESQ

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

JUSTIN ELDAD

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

MARIA A FERNANDEZ ESQ

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

BART GREENWALD

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

JEREMIAH BYRNE

CHAIR

Board

1 hrs/wk

W BRYAN HUDSON ESQ

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

PROF LISA H NICHOLSON ESQ

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

ROBERT A RILEY

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

DELORES PREGLIASCO ESQ

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

COREY SHAPIRO ESQ

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

JOHN SELENT ESQ

BOARD MEMBER

Board

1 hrs/wk

RONALD TRIPLETT

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

T MORGAN WARD ESQ

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

MARTHA HASSELBACHER

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

KENDRICK RIGGS

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

JANICE HOSKINS

BOARD MEMBER

Board

0.2 hrs/wk

AARON MARCUS

FIRST VICE CHAIR

Board

1 hrs/wk

R JAMES STRAUS

SECOND VICE CHAIR

Board

1 hrs/wk

JO ANN ORR

SECRETARY

Board

1 hrs/wk

JOHN YOUNG

DEPUTY DIRECTOR

Staff

$104K

40 hrs/wk

Grants received

Showing 98 of 98

FromAmountPurposeYear
$237K
KENTUCKY LEGAL AID LEGAL ASSISTANCE PROJECT AND VETERANS
2024
$55K
Unrestricted Contributions to 501(c)3
2024
$20K
Legal Aid Society - Food Justice Project: Legal Aid Society has a long tradition of serving the civil legal needs of low-income individuals and families in Metro Louisville. The Food Justice Project seeks to increase access to food benefits by removing the legal and administrative barriers to accessing these benefits. The FJP boosts the economic means of low-income citizens by ensuring equal and full access to SNAP benefits. The LBF grant will support outreach efforts to educate eligible participants on their right to these benefits and to assist participants in appealing any denials.
2024
$15K
Legal Aid Society - Doctors & Lawyers for Kids: Doctors & Layers for Kids is a collaborative effort of the Legal Aid Society, LBA, U of L Pediatrics, and the Family Health Centers that assists children from low-income families by training healthcare providers to recognize unmet legal needs that affect patient health and by having free legal services available to families in need. LBF funds will be used to support services to the Smoketown Family Wellness Center and other pediatric settings.
2024
$10K
TO PROVIDE PROJECT SUPPORT FOR BANKRUPTCY TRAININGS FOR ATTORNEYS.
2024
$5K
2024 SUPPORT. THIS GIFT SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED AS CONTRIBUTION FROM MARY MOSS GREENEBAUM AND JOHN GREENEBAUM.
2024
$5K
2024 SUPPORT. THIS GIFT SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED AS CONTRIBUTION FROM MARY MOSS GREENEBAUM AND JOHN GREENEBAUM.
2024
$5K
2024 SUPPORT. THIS GIFT SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED AS CONTRIBUTION FROM MARY MOSS GREENEBAUM AND JOHN GREENEBAUM.
2024
$5K
2024 SUPPORT. THIS GIFT SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED AS CONTRIBUTION FROM MARY MOSS GREENEBAUM AND JOHN GREENEBAUM.
2024
$3K
GENERAL OPERATING FUND
2024
$2K
VIOLENCE INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION
2024
$2K
CHARITABLE & MISSION SUPPORT
2024
$1K
WEST LOUISVILLE OFFICE
2024
$100
GENERAL FUND
2024
$2.0M
CIVIL LEGAL AID
2023
$321K
For legal aid
2023
$103K
FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT
2023
$50K
Family advocacy
2023
$49K
I83 PUBLIC INTEREST LAW/LITIGATION
2023
$25K
PROJECT H.E.L.P. (HOMELESS EXPERIENCE LEGAL PROTECTION)
2023
$24K
PROGRAM/PROJECT SUPPORT
2023
$22K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2023
$18K
I83 PUBLIC INTEREST LAW/LITIGATION
2023
$15K
Violence Intervention and Prevention Project - Legal Aid Society has a long tradition of serving the civil legal needs of low-income individuals and families in Metro Louisville. Its Violence Intervention and Prevention is a new program to provide legal information and representation to interrupt and redress violent crime in Metro Louisville. It will offer direct civil legal services to low-income survivors of violent injury and work to eliminate barriers these survivors face when seeking legal assistance and victim's rights enforcement. LBF funds will serve as a "match" to leverage other funds for staffing this new program.
2023
$15K
Doctors & Lawyers for Kids - Doctors & Lawyers for Kids is a collaborative effort of the Legal Aid Society, LBA, U of L Pediatrics, and Family Health Centers that assists children from low-income families by training healthcare providers to recognize unmet legal needs that affect patient health and by having free legal services available to families in need. LBF funds will be used to support services to the Smoketown Family Wellness Center and other pediatric settings.
2023
$10K
SHELBY COUNTY REGIONAL OFFICE AND COMMUNITY LAWYER PROGRAM
2023
$10K
ONGOING ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS
2023
$10K
I83 PUBLIC INTEREST LAW/LITIGATION
2023
$5K
PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
2023
$5K
VIOLENCE INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION PROJECT FOR YOUNG BLACK MEN
2023
$100
GENERAL FUND
2023
$2.1M
CIVIL LEGAL AID
2022
$250K
LEGAL AID NETWORK OF KENTUCKY TECHNOLOGY UPGRADE
2022
$151K
For legal aid
2022
$81K
I83 PUBLIC INTEREST LAW/LITIGATION
2022
$53K
Family advocacy
2022
$44K
I83 PUBLIC INTEREST LAW/LITIGATION
2022
$30K
Veterans Legal Assistance Program: Legal Aid Society has a long tradition of serving the civil needs of low-income individuals and families in Metro Louisville. It has targeted its services in recent years to assist veterans with civil legal needs relating to their service or impacting their ability to lead healthy and stable civilian lives. LBF funds will support a medical-legal partnership (MLP) with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Robley Rex VA Medical Center (Louisville VAMC), and the University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law (Brandeis School of Law). This strategic partnership brings attorneys and law students together with Louisville VAMC medical professionals, integrating legal assistance into healthcare services to address socio-economic determinants that are negatively impacting the health and wellbeing of low-income veterans
2022
$24K
PROGRAM/PROJECT SUPPORT
2022
$20K
PROJECT H.E.L.P. (HOMELESS EXPERIENCE LEGAL PROTECTION) LOUISVILLE
2022
$13K
Technology for West Louisville Office: In 2022, Legal Aid Society will expand its presence and services in West Louisville by establishing a neighborhood office at the Goodwill Opportunity Campus. The neighborhood office will bring poverty-law expertise and community-development together by providing individual legal representation to West Louisville residents and connecting with grassroots, aspiring nonprofit organizations who are working in the area to assist these organizations in community development and identify the legal avenues and solutions available to them to promote long-term change. The LBF grant will fund the purchase of technology to equip the West Louisville office.
2022
$4K
VICTIMS OF CRIME PROGRAM
2022
$100
GENERAL FUND
2022
$1.7M
CIVIL LEGAL AID
2021
$137K
For legal aid
2021
$82K
I83 PUBLIC INTEREST LAW/LITIGATION
2021
$52K
FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT
2021
$50K
PROJECT H.E.L.P. (HOMELESS EXPERIENCE LEGAL PROTECTION) LOUISVILLE
2021
$47K
Family advocacy
2021
$20K
HUMAN SERVICES
2021
$13K
I83 PUBLIC INTEREST LAW/LITIGATION
2021
$11K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2021
$11K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2021
$150
GENERAL FUND
2021
$1.4M
CIVIL LEGAL AID
2020
$90K
For legal aid
2020
$58K
Offers legal advice and representation to clients who meet poverty guidelines.
2020
$58K
FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT
2020
$48K
I83 PUBLIC INTEREST LAW/LITIGATION
2020
$25K
PROJECT H.E.L.P. (HOMELESS EXPERIENCE LEGAL PROTECTION) LOUISVILLE
2020
$10K
COVID-19 CRISIS RESPONSE GRANT: JUSTICE IN ACTION PROGRAM
2020
$10K
TO SUPPORT H.E.L.P. (HOMELESS EXPERIENCE LEGAL PROTECTION) LOUISVILLE, A DIRECT PARTNERSHIP WITH UP FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN DESIGNED TO REACH AND SERVE THE HOMELESS WHO HAVE LEGAL PROBLEMS BUT LACK THE MEANS BY WHICH TO ACCESS THE JUSTICE SYSTEM TO DEAL WITH THEM.
2020
$10K
TO PROVIDE PROJECT SUPPORT FOR BANKRUPTCY TRAININGS FOR ATTORNEYS.
2020
$6K
Support of free legal services to disadvantaged in the community
2020
$5K
GIFT FOR PROJECT H.E.L.P. - LEGAL AID FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE
2020
$500
UNRESTRICTED USE
2020
$165
GENERAL PURPOSE
2020
$1.6M
CIVIL LEGAL AID
2019
$138K
FOR LEGAL AID
2019
$47K
I83 PUBLIC INTEREST LAW/LITIGATION
2019
$20K
PROJECT H.E.L.P. (HOMELESS EXPERIENCE LEGAL PROTECTION) LOUISVILLE
2019
$5K
I83 PUBLIC INTEREST LAW/LITIGATION
2019
$5K
FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT
2019
$372K
FOR LEGAL AID
2018
$180K
Offers legal advice and representation to clients who meet poverty guidelines.
2018
$53K
CRIME & LEGAL-RELATED
2018
$11K
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
2018
$10K
VETERANS LEGAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
2018
$7K
TO PROVIDE PROJECT SUPPORT FOR BANKRUPTCY TRAININGS FOR ATTORNEYS.
2018
$1.3M
CIVIL LEGAL AID
2017
$334K
FOR LEGAL AIID
2017
$188K
Offers legal advice and representation to clients who meet poverty guidelines.
2017
$28K
CRIME & LEGAL-RELATED
2017
$27K
FELLOWSHIP STIPENDS
2017
$21K
CRIME & LEGAL-RELATED
2017
$15K
VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES
2017
$11K
FOR GRANT RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSES
2017

Funded by

$14.6M from 32 funders · 98 grants · 2017–2024

Legal Services Corporation

$10.2M · 6 grants · 2017–2023

The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc

$1.8M · 10 grants · 2017–2024

Metro United Way Inc

$697K · 7 grants · 2017–2023

The Community Foundation Of

$381K · 7 grants · 2017–2023

Ky Access To Justice Commission Inc

$302K · 3 grants · 2022–2024

James Graham Brown Foundation Inc

$260K · 2 grants · 2020–2022

Equal Justice Works

$244K · 5 grants · 2017–2023

The Gheens Foundation Inc

$140K · 5 grants · 2019–2023

Details

EIN610537626
Subsection03
Ruling date1972-01
Formed1921
Employees78
Volunteers104
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