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Chicago Volunteer Legal Services

EIN 23-7164989Human and Civil Rights Illinois Small

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Because equal access to justice is everyone's fight

Founded in 1970, Chicago Volunteer Legal Services (CVLS) works to coordinate, support and promote the voluntary pro bono legal representation of the Chicago area's poor and working poor. CVLS is an organization of over 3,000 volunteer attorneys who donate free legal services to thousands of low-income Chicagoans annually. At only $109 per case, CVLS is unique in its ability to offer a wide range of totally free legal services to the poor and working poor of Chicago.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

82.20Overall score
out of 100

75.83Financial score
out of 100

93.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$2,062,553

Total expenses · USD$2,503,172

Program expenses

$1,957,480.50 recorded amount

78.2%

Fundraising expenses

$45,057.10 recorded amount

1.8%

Administrative expenses

$498,131.23 recorded amount

19.9%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.02 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Margaret C. Benson
Recorded compensation: $163,748.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 6.54%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Chicago Volunteer Legal Services
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	93.0
`category` Category	Human and Civil Rights
`description` Mission & description	Founded in 1970, Chicago Volunteer Legal Services (CVLS) works to coordinate, support and promote the voluntary pro bono legal representation of the Chicago area's poor and working poor. CVLS is an organization of over 3,000 volunteer attorneys who donate free legal services to thousands of low-income Chicagoans annually. At only $109 per case, CVLS is unique in its ability to offer a wide range of totally free legal services to the poor and working poor of Chicago.
`ein` EIN	23-7164989
`tot_exp` Total expenses	2503172.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.19899999999999998
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.02
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.018000000000000002
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.782
`fscore` Financial score	75.83
`leader` Recorded leader	Margaret C. Benson
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	163748.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0654
`motto` Tagline	Because equal access to justice is everyone's fight
`name` Charity name	Chicago Volunteer Legal Services
`tot_rev` Total revenue	2062553.0
`score` Overall score	82.2
`state` State code	IL
`subcategory` Subcategory	Advocacy and Education
`size` Source size label	small
`program_exp` Program expenses	1957480.504
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	45057.096000000005
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	498131.22799999994

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 23-7164989
Source category: Human and Civil Rights
Source subcategory: Advocacy and Education
Recorded location: Illinois (IL)
Expense-based size: Small
Under $3.5M in total expenses · source label: small

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.