Main Street Legal Services Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
112841751
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Long Island City, NY, USA
Phone
7183404300
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Human Rights

Reported finances

Revenue
$6,120
Expenses
$9,218
Assets
$312,124
Liabilities
$535

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LISA DAVIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • AMANDA DAVID (DIRECTOR)
  • SUSAN SALAZAR (DIRECTOR)
  • ZAL SHROFF (DIRECTOR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Through main street legal services, cuny law's clinical education program operates as a fully functional law firm within the law school, offering students a unique learning opportunity to practice public interest law, build lawyering skills, and gain hands-on experience in a supportive environment. Main street legal services through its educational program provides legal representation to people who otherwise would not have access to justice.

What it reported doing in 2025

Main street legal services, cuny school of law's clinical educational program, operates as a fully functional law firm within the law school. Clinics offer students a unique educational opportunity to practice public interest law, build valuable lawyering skills and gain hands-on experience in a supportive environment. Clinics provide legal representation through its educational program to hundreds of people who otherwise would not have access to justice.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -50.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 33.86; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -13.5% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.