2025-09-03T19:50:42Z 2024-06-30 410746749 CliftonLarsonAllen LLP 950 North Glebe Road Ste 1200 Arlington VA 22203 990 2023-07-01 521574217 DC BAR PRO BONO CENTER DCBA 2027374700 901 4TH ST NW WASHINGTON DC 20001 Robert Spagnoletti Executive Vice President 2027374700 2025-05-15 true Robert Williams P01345960 5712279500 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X Robert Spagnoletti 901 4th Street NW Washington DC 20001 7153484 false X www.dcbar.org/pro-bono X 1988 DC The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center provides free legal services through pro bono lawyers to low-income individuals, nonprofit organizations and small businesses primarily in the District of Columbia. The Pro Bono Center also recruits and trains lawyers and law firms to provide business and transactional legal services to community-based non-profit organizations and small, disadvantaged businesses. 20 20 0 1000 0 0 5124680 5272631 44025 49813 8326 257910 -5468 -9039 5171563 5571315 0 0 0 0 3325425 4279854 0 0 410535 1320082 1196286 4645507 5476140 526056 95175 8469933 9309749 1233112 1462746 7236821 7847003 X The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center provides free legal services through pro bono lawyers to low-income individuals, nonprofit organizations and small businesses primarily in the District of Columbia. The Pro Bono Center also recruits and trains lawyers and law firms to provide business and transactional legal services to community-based non-profit organizations and small, disadvantaged businesses. false false 743366 4500 Legal Assistance for Low-Income Individuals: The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center recruits, trains, and supports volunteer lawyers who provide legal information, advice, and/or representation in housing, family law, public benefits, personal injury defense, bankruptcy, employment, immigration, future planning and probate, and consumer law matters. In FY24, the Center provided ongoing full representation to 220 new clients on civil legal matters and same-day representation to 267 litigants in the Landlord Tenant Branch of D.C. Superior Court through its eviction defense program. The Center also provided legal advice and referrals at community-based clinics where 706 individuals received legal assistance on a range of civil legal issues and an additional 486 individuals received assistance on immigration matters. Through the Landlord Tenant Legal Assistance Network, the Center assisted an additional 2,430 individuals with housing matters; and through the Family Law Assistance Network, the Center assisted 407 individuals in Superior Court domestic relations proceedings. Finally, the Center maintains Superior Court-based resource centers to serve pro se litigants in landlord-tenant matters. In FY24, these centers served 1,494 people. 647085 7325 Nonprofit and Small Business (NPSB) Legal Assistance Programs: The NPSB Programs provide brief legal advice, legal training, and match nonprofit organizations and small business owners with pro bono counsel to meet their transactional and business law needs. In FY24, NPSB matched 24 nonprofits with ongoing pro bono counsel and provided 447 nonprofits with one-on-one brief advice via legal clinics and weekly "Office Hours" consultations. NPSB additionally served 658 small business owners throughout the year via its small business brief advice legal clinics. Finally, NPSB provided legal training to 1,893 nonprofit and small business representatives, and to the volunteer attorneys that assist them, on relevant business law topics. 649134 0 Online and Other Projects: In FY24, the Pro Bono Center provided digital services that included LawHelp.org/DC, a website that provides legal and referral information to the general public; the Legal Information Help Line, which provides recorded legal information 24 hours a day in multiple languages; and Probono.net/dc, a free online resource for pro bono lawyers and legal services attorneys with more than 11,000 registered users. In FY24, there were over 1 million page views on LawHelp.org/DC and the Help Line answered more than 15,000 calls and emails. 2092844 37988 4132429 true true false true false false false false false false true true false false false false false true false false false false false false true false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false true X 0 0 0 false false false false false false false false false false false false X 20 20 false false false false false false false true false false false true true true true true true true false false AL AK CA AR CT CO GA HI FL IL KS KY MA MN ME MD MI NV NJ MS NH NM NY ND NC OH OK OR UT PA RI SC TN WA WV VA WI X X Robert Spagnoletti 2027374700 901 4th Street NW 901 4th Street NW Washington DC 200012776 Robert Spagnoletti Executive Vice President 3.00 32.00 X 0 488222 87226 Kelli Neptune Executive Director 35.00 X 219958 0 56553 Darryl Maxwell Director 35.00 X 187241 0 44853 Angela Boone Director 35.00 X 146667 0 27795 Gabriella Lewis-White Director 35.00 X 142250 0 32061 Jason Qu Senior Managing Attorney 35.00 X 138565 0 16089 Adrian Gottshall Director 35.00 X 132610 0 44478 Charles Lowery Jr President 3.00 10.00 X X 0 0 0 Shaun Snyder President-Elect 1.00 5.00 X X 0 0 0 Alicia Long Treasurer 0.30 1.50 X X 0 0 0 Mark Salzberg Treasurer-Elect 0.30 1.50 X X 0 0 0 Lukman Azeez Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Rebecca Cady Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Patrick English Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Brian Flowers Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Elizabeth Gere Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Janene Jackson Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Ellen Jakovic Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Natalie Koss Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Andrea Mangones Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Fatema Merchant Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Steven Miller Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Roger Lu Phillips Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Ramya Ravindran Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Diane Seltzer Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Courtney Weiner Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 Karen Newton Cole Director 0.30 0.75 X 0 0 0 967291 488222 309055 0 false true false 0 13636 950821 4308174 5272631 Other Fees & Services 522320 30842 30842 Admissions 561920 18971 18971 49813 80993 80993 1684953 1508036 176917 176917 176917 65094 950821 74133 -9039 -9039 5571315 49813 0 248871 1134432 874951 128155 131326 2237853 1811087 337021 89745 224664 181947 32628 10089 409497 325177 58793 25527 273408 217902 37745 17761 88059 86936 1123 82763 23861 14119 44783 36507 36507 0 0 0 0 360111 317416 22420 20275 35299 28552 5906 841 30941 22686 4691 3564 Food 8098 7179 919 Professional Fees 161442 34771 81566 45105 Other Fees, Admin Allocation 329934 156191 152224 21519 63132 7266 55866 0 5476140 4132429 933176 410535 137038 135737 168436 152790 3546127 2029510 3500 10572 43012 43012 3426965 5764544 1187867 1216596 8469933 9309749 401491 496287 831621 966459 1233112 1462746 X 5715117 6258897 1521704 1588106 7236821 7847003 8469933 9309749 95175 515007 X false true X true true true X 0 3392075 4767916 4322938 5124680 5272631 22880240 3392075 4767916 4322938 5124680 5272631 22880240 22880240 69157 37991 39828 50453 80993 278422 84120 63327 65094 212541 23371203 0.97900 0.97370 X Part II, Line 10 Gross fundraising income. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 true true true 6163 6163 false Part II-B, Line 1 Staff prepared and refined written and verbal testimonies, along with a document for the Access to Justice Initiative and participated in meetings regarding council testimony. Staff submitted written appeals directly to council members and conducted in-person visits to multiple council offices. President Charles Lowery, alongside staff, delivered both oral and written testimony before the D.C. Council, advocating for Access to Justice Initiative funding. 43012 43012 0 0 C C Western Asset US Core Bond Fund 1216596 F 1216596 Reception 1015915 950821 65094 27765 46368 0 0 0 0 1015915 950821 65094 0 0 0 27765 0 46368 74133 -9039 false false false false false false false false false Robert Spagnoletti Executive Vice President 0 485237 0 0 2985 0 55343 0 31883 0 575448 Kelli Neptune Executive Director 218992 966 26156 30397 276511 Darryl Maxwell Director 186611 630 21528 23326 232095 Angela Boone Director 144861 1806 14981 12813 174461 Gabriella Lewis-White Director 141883 367 14920 17140 174310 Part 1, Line 3 Establishment of compensation: All compensation is determined and paid by the District of Columbia Bar ("D.C. BAR"), a related section 115 organization that acts as the payroll agent for the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center. The D.C. Bar uses the following methods to establish the compensation of the Pro Bono Center's CEO/Executive Director: Compensation survey/study, independent compensation consultant, Form 990 of other organizations, and in consultation with the Board and/or Compensation Committee. Part B This amendment is being filed to correct a $2 discrepancy between Line 4e on Page 2 and Column B, Line 25 on Page 10. Line 4e correctly reports total program service expenses as $4,132,429, while Column B, Line 25 previously reported $4,132,431. Adjustments were made to Page 10 so that Column B now reflects the correct total of $4,132,429. Part III, Line 4d Outreach Services: In FY24, the Pro Bono Center participated in training sessions for 923 volunteer attorneys to prepare them to undertake pro bono assignments from various District of Columbia legal services providers. The trainings covered a variety of practice areas including bankruptcy, family, landlord-tenant, client-centered lawyering, and public benefits law. Part V, Question 2a In accordance with REV. Proc. 70-6, the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center has received permission from the IRS to have the D.C. Bar act as its payroll agent. D.C. Bar's IRS Form 941 for the period ending June 30, 2024, shows a total of 206 employees of which 37 worked for the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center. Part VI, Line 11b The Form 990 is prepared by staff and reviewed by the independent auditor and senior management. It is then distributed to the Investment Committee of the Board for review. The finalized Form 990 is distributed to the Board for comment prior to filing. Part VI, Line 12c At the beginning of the year, July 1, the Executive office (staff liaison) distributes the conflict-of-interest policy to the Board of Directors of the Pro Bono Center and a questionnaire to be completed by each Board member and Key Employee. The completed forms are kept on file in the Executive Office. If a conflict is disclosed, the Board member recuses him/herself from the meeting and the issue is discussed by the remaining Board members during which the issue is resolved, and appropriate action is taken pursuant to the policy. Potential conflicts at the Board level are reviewed by the Board; conflicts at the staff level are reviewed by senior management. Part VI, Line 15a The District of the Columbia Bar ("D.C. Bar"), a related Section 115 organization, acts as the payroll agent for the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center. The D.C. Bar uses the following methods to determine the compensation of the Pro Bono Center's Executive Vice President, Executive Director and key employees, independent compensation consultant, compensation survey/study in 2023, and Form 990 of other comparable organizations. Upon the recommendation of the independent consultant, the D.C. Bar has adopted salary ranges for each position in the organization based on the market environment for comparable peer organizations. These ranges are updated annually based on the recommendation of the compensation consultant. The Board approves the compensation for the Executive Vice President, who also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the D.C. Bar. The Executive Vice President determines the compensation of the Executive Director and key employees by considering the above factors along with written annual performance appraisals. Part VI, Line 19 The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements available upon request. Part VI, Line 1a There are no committees with authority to act on behalf of the board. 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