DC BAR PRO BONO CENTER

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Organization Details

Formation Year

1988

Legal Domicile

Principal Officer

Robert Spagnoletti

Phone

2027374700

Tax Period

2024-07-01 to 2025-06-30

DC BAR PRO BONO CENTER, founded in 1988, is a community nonprofit that reported $6.4M in total revenue in fiscal year 2024. Revenue grew 15% year-over-year, indicating healthy expansion. Expenses of $6.1M left a modest 4% surplus.

Mission

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.

Program Service Accomplishments

Program 1

Expenses: $1,146,805 Revenue: $2,500

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...

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 FY25, the Center provided ongoing full representation to 259 new clients on civil legal matters. The Center also provided legal advice and referrals at community-based clinics where 764 individuals received legal assistance on a range of civil legal issues and an additional 465 individuals received assistance on immigration matters. Through the Landlord Tenant Legal Assistance Network, the Center conducted 3,379 intakes to be routed to network partners; and through the Family Law Assistance Network, the Center assisted 474 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 FY25, these centers served 1,269 people.

Program 2

Expenses: $668,390 Revenue: $13,800

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 FY25, NPSB matched 35 nonprofits with ongoing pro bono counsel and provided 413 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 2,356 nonprofit and small business representatives, and to the volunteer attorneys that assist them, on relevant business law topics.

Program 3

Expenses: $655,521 Revenue: $200

Online and Other Projects: In FY25, 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 12,000 registered users. In FY25, there were over 650,000 page views on LawHelp.org/DC and the Help Line answered 15,000 calls and emails.

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Liquidity (40%) • Solvency (30%) • Sustainability (20%) • Efficiency (10%)

Financial Overview (2024)

Revenue Breakdown

Contributions & Grants $5,926,243

Program Service Revenue $44,060

Investment Income $402,936

Other Revenue $15,397

TOTAL REVENUE $6,388,636

Expense Breakdown

Grants Paid $0

Salaries & Benefits $4,932,233

Fundraising Expenses $315,792

Program Expenses $5,010,956

Other Expenses $1,202,530

TOTAL EXPENSES $6,134,763

Year-over-Year Comparison

	2024	2023	Change
Revenue	$6,388,636	$5,571,315	+0.1%
Expenses	$6,134,763	$5,476,140	+0.1%
Net Income	$253,873	$95,175	+1.7%

Key Indicators

✗ Grants to Organizations ✗ Grants to Individuals ✓ Lobbying ✗ Political Activity ✗ Foreign Activities ✗ Donor Advised Fund ✓ Schedule B Required

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Governance

Voting Members

Independent Members

Employees

Volunteers

1500

Governance Policies

✗ Conflict of Interest Policy

✗ Whistleblower Policy

✗ Document Retention Policy

Special Practices & Reported Activities

✗ Operated a School

✗ Operated a Hospital

✗ Provided First Class Travel

✗ Reported Conflict of Interest

✗ Reported Asset Diversion

✗ Excess Benefit Transaction

✗ Made Political Expenditures

✓ Engaged in Lobbying

✗ Operated Donor Advised Fund

✗ Maintained Art Collections

✗ Filed Form 720

Compensation of Officers, Directors & Key Employees

Total Officers

$1,443,467

Total Directors

Key Employees

Highest Compensated

reported

Name	Title	Hours/Week	Role	Reportable Comp	Other Comp	Total
Robert Spagnoletti	Executive Vice President	3.00	Officer	$0	$80,112	$737,859
Margarita Lorenzetti	Chief Financial Officer	3.00	Officer	$0	$77,364	$390,582
Kelli Neptune	Executive Director	35.00	Officer	$252,385	$62,641	$315,026
Darryl Maxwell	Director	35.00	Highest	$194,726	$45,924	$240,650
Gabriella Lewis-White	Director	35.00	Highest	$169,925	$53,968	$223,893
Adrian Gottshall	Director	35.00	Highest	$169,766	$64,562	$234,328
Anitra Hill	Managing Attorney	35.00	Highest	$127,044	$36,724	$163,768
Paul DiBlasi	Managing Attorney	35.00	Highest	$122,178	$41,600	$163,778
Shaun Snyder	President	3.00	Officer Director	$0	$0	$0
Sadina Montani	President-Elect	0.30	Officer Director	$0	$0	$0
Mark Salzberg	Treasurer	0.30	Officer Director	$0	$0	$0
Joshua Mogil	Treasurer-Elect	0.30	Officer Director	$0	$0	$0
Rebecca Cady	Secretary	0.30	Officer Director	$0	$0	$0
Leila Bham	Director	0.30	Director	$0	$0	$0
Lukman Azeez	Director	0.30	Director	$0	$0	$0
Karen Newton Cole	Director	0.30	Director	$0	$0	$0
Natalie Koss	Director	0.30	Director	$0	$0	$0
Shirley Diaz	Director	0.30	Director	$0	$0	$0
Patrick English	Director	0.30	Director	$0	$0	$0
Alicia Long	Director	0.30	Director	$0	$0	$0
Ramya Ravindran	Director	0.30	Director	$0	$0	$0
Charles Lowery Jr	Director	0.30	Director	$0	$0	$0
Roger Lu Phillips	Director	0.30	Director	$0	$0	$0
Kathryn Rakozy	Director	0.30	Director	$0	$0	$0
Andrea Mangones	Director	0.30	Director	$0	$0	$0
Steven Miller	Director	0.30	Director	$0	$0	$0
Belinda Edwards Taylor	Director	0.30	Director	$0	$0	$0
Diane Seltzer	Director	0.30	Director	$0	$0	$0
Courtney Weiner	Director	0.30	Director	$0	$0	$0

Note: Compensation data is self-reported by the organization on their Form 990. "Reportable Comp" includes salary, bonuses, and other reportable compensation from the organization and related organizations. "Other Comp" includes benefits, deferred compensation, and non-taxable benefits.

Historical Data

Year	Revenue	Expenses	Assets	Net Income
2025	$6,388,636	$6,134,763	$10,168,030	$253,873
2024	No data	No data	No data	No data
2024	$5,571,315	$5,476,140	$9,309,749	$95,175
2023	$5,171,563	$4,645,507	$8,469,933	$526,056
2022	$4,228,003	$3,667,099	$7,630,668	$560,904
2021	$4,887,141	$3,895,263	$7,035,297	$991,878
2021	$4,887,141	$3,895,263	$7,035,297	$991,878