2024-10-01T09:51:15-07:00 2023-12-31 Support Kansas City 6750 Antioch Road Merriam KS 66204 990 2023-01-01 813880382 NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY NEIG 8164011951 815 W 53rd Terrace Kansas City MO 64112 Terrance Waldren Treasurer 9134841681 2024-10-01 1 1 Karen Cubbage P01286851 9138314752 2024-10-01 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z Kathryn Persley 815 W 53rd Terrace Kansas City MO 64112 1334389 0 X X 2016 MO The Neighborhood Legal Support (NLS) mission is to provide legal assistance and other support to empower urban core neighborhoods to grow stronger. 7 7 10 35 0 0 1266427 1172541 12000 159349 538 1622 1347 877 1280312 1334389 180777 133306 0 0 452525 515813 0 0 16112 161887 388263 795189 1037382 485123 297007 1076474 1273592 217256 117365 859218 1156227 X NLS performs legal work to allow blighted and abandoned urban core properties to be turned into good quality housing for low income families. We also assist and support the efforts of neighborhood organizations in the urban core area to address abandoned housing issues. 1 0 935928 191452 159349 For the last six years, Neighborhood Legal Support of Kansas City has run a focused community development project in the Lykins Neighborhood in the Historic Northeast District of Kansas City. We have organized over 40 project partners to bring a wide array of resources to the neighborhood to remediate blight. Working with residents, police, City codes inspectors and numerous other partners, we identify blighted and abandoned homes in the neighborhood. We then bring litigation to either require the existing owners of the properties to convert them into good quality homes or to have a rehabber selected by the neighborhood do so. The entire process is focused on empowerment of the neighborhood residents. The residents, for example, chose the focus area and decide which rehabbers will be awarded which properties to develop. Neighborhood residents make all major project decisions. We see our role as empowering neighborhood residents, to the greatest extent possible, to implement their vision for community development in their neighborhood. The project has been successful. Some highlights of the project to date, we have acquired over 50 blighted properties in the neighborhood for participating rehabbers and builders; we have litigation pending to acquire 40 additional properties; we have agreements with 16 additional property owners to rehab their properties themselves; and we have an option Agreement with the City that allows the neighborhood to purchase 19 additional vacant properties that were formerly owned by the Land Bank. All told there are over 140 properties in the project. Due to the success of the project, we have had to expand our focus area twice. Now the focus area includes the entire Lykins Neighborhood, and, as of the end of November 2022, we had litigation pending to acquire all remaining blighted and abandoned houses in the neighborhood. Indeed, we now have a bounty program in which if any neighborhood resident can find a property in Lykins that is blighted and abandoned and not part of the project, we will pay them $100. Our goal is to have the remaining blighted and abandoned houses completely rehabbed by the end of 2025. Violent crime in Lykins is down by more than 20% in the last three years. Although there are numerous causes of this, we believe that the substantial reduction of blight in the neighborhood is one of the primary causes; and, in 2020, the American Planners Association recognized the Lykins Focused Community Development Project as the Outstanding Community Planning Initiative for 2020 for the State of Missouri. 0 0 0 935928 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 35 0 1 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 X Gregg Lombardi 8164011951 715 Jackson Ave Kansas City MO 64124 Alissa Cannady Deputy Executive Director 40 0 X 104456 0 8066 Gregg Lombardi Executive Director 40 0 X 77096 0 17123 Kathy Persley Board Chair 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Terrence Waldren Treasurer 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Ward Katz Secretary 1 0 X X 0 0 0 David Schulte Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Todd Lieberman Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Martha Gershun Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Miguel Terreros Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 181552 0 25189 1 0 0 0 D&D Construction Inc PO Box 7347 Kanas City MO 64116 Construction improvements 157560 1 0 0 0 0 240291 932250 0 1172541 Fees for Service 922130 159349 159349 0 0 0 0 0 0 159349 1622 0 0 1622 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Prior period adjustments 900099 877 877 0 0 0 0 0 0 877 1334389 160226 0 1622 X 40000 40000 93306 93306 0 0 0 0 207443 186910 12248 8285 0 0 0 0 249935 205152 40106 4677 0 0 0 0 24111 22708 1011 392 34324 29518 3776 1030 0 0 0 0 36121 36121 0 0 21866 0 21866 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 206497 206497 0 0 2754 2368 303 83 18969 16435 1991 543 1034 889 114 31 0 0 0 0 9331 8028 1024 279 1767 1520 194 53 0 0 0 0 12421 11909 402 110 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9672 8318 1064 290 12707 11125 1243 339 Property Acquisition, Maintance, Taxes and Fees 29134 29134 0 0 Soccer Expenses 22937 22937 0 0 Materials for clean up day 3053 3053 0 0 0 0 0 0 1037382 935928 85342 16112 202429 178663 344109 699913 174642 67536 30000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3994 15852 327228 15600 321300 311628 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1076474 1273592 26362 85820 0 0 190894 31545 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 217256 117365 X 400094 392980 459124 763247 859218 1156227 1076474 1273592 X 297007 0 0 0 0 2 X X 0 1 X 0 0 X 746317 578529 515208 1266427 1172541 4279022 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 746317 578529 515208 1266427 1172541 4279022 1686790 2592232 0 671 355 538 1622 3186 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31964 2313 1347 877 36501 4318709 583205 0.60023 0.62356 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 Line 10 - Miscellaneous income. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 0 0 326178 14550 311628 0 0 0 0 0 1050 1050 0 0 0 0 0 311628 1 Lykins Neighborhood Association 715 Jackson Ave Kansas City MO 64124 812452915 501(c)(3) 40000 Contributions distributed. 1 0 NLS supports the Lykins neighborhood association by providing neighborhood clean up days, resident support, and assisting in providing services to residents. NLS ensures compliance by oversight of the funds to specifically be spent for the purpose of supporting the neighborhood. NLS supports individuals in the neighborhood by providing rent and utilitie assistance. In 2023, our homeless prevention project obtained both short-term and long-term housing for people who were chronically homeless in the Lykins Neighborhood. We also assisted people who were living on the streets in obtaining emergency medical services and mental health services. We also obtained access to health insurance for people without housing. 18 93306 0 Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 NLS supports the Lykins neighborhood association by providing neighborhood clean up days, resident support, and assisting in providing services to residents. NLS ensures compliance by oversight of the funds to specifically be spent for the purpose of supporting the neighborhood. Luz Rios Non-voting board member 5856 Neighborhood liasion 0 Diana Graham Non-voting board member 4135 Neighborhood liason 0 Form 990, Part III, Line 2 In addition to all the other work historically done by NLS, in 2023 we filed litigation involving a blighted and abandoned 16-unit apartment building and a blighted and abandoned 64-unit apartment complex. These case are on track to result in the creation of 80 units of good quality, affordable housing. Form 990, Part IV, Line 12a At the time of filing the 2023 audit was in progress and not completed. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b A draft of this completed return was circulated to all NLS Board members, prior to its filing and all Board members were invited to review and comment on it and to provide proposed corrections. To the extent that Board members had suggested additions or corrections, those changes were added to the document. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The Neighborhood Legal Support of Kansas City (NLS) conflict of interest policy has proven to be an effective means of making sure that our Board members are not involved in any decision-making that might impact them or someone close to them financially. In addition, our Executive Director is familiar with the work and business dealings of our Board members, which allows him to be able to monitor the Board members to make sure that any potential conflict is dealt with appropriately and consistently with NLS's conflicts policy. The fact that none of our voting Board members have any financial or contractual connection to NLS greatly reduces the risk of conflicts as well. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 During 2022, the NLS Board of Directors conducted an Executive Director compensation analysis, in which the Board reviewed the compensation of Executive Directors of comparable not-for-profits in the Kansas City area. The study found that our Executive Director is compensated at a rate that is lower than other similarly situated Executive Directors in the area. Our Executive Director has declined the opportunity to receive salary increases since 2022. So, we are confident that his compensation remains below that of comparably trained and experienced Executive Directors in similar not-for-profits. Our staff compensation is set by our Executive Director who has 23 years of experience in setting salaries for similar not-for-profit organizations. For our staff social worker, we consulted with three other organizations with comparable staff social workers and found that our compensation is roughly 10% higher than the compensation for social workers at other organizations. Given the talent of our social worker, we feel this is reasonable. We have also consulted with another not-for-profit law firm about compensation for experienced attorneys and found that our compensation for our Litigation Director is again roughly 10% higher than that for a comparable position, but under the circumstances, we feel that this is reasonable. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The organization made its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public during the tax year upon request. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Construction cost, liaisons, trash clean up, urban planning and interpreters. Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 Rounding. Form 990, Part XII, Line 2b At the time of filing the 2023 audit was in progress and not completed.