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IOLTA History

WYOMING STATE BAR FOUNDATION HISTORY OF IOLTA GRANT AWARDS

Through the 2009 Funding Cycle

Year

Wyoming Legal Services, Inc.

Law-Related Education Council

U.W. College of Law Legal Services Clinic

Other

1989

$2,500

0

0

0

1990

$20,000

0

0

$10,000

1991

$16,000

0

$2,000

$2,000

1992

$22,500

$2,000

$2,500

$1,500

1993

$28,500

$4,000

$9,500

0

1994

$40,000

$4,000

$10,000

$1,000

1995

$43,900

$8,600

0

0

1996

$44,706

$8,600

0

0

1997

$40,000

$7,200

$15,000

0

1998

$40,000

$7,500

$15,000

0

1999

$40,000

$7,700

$15,000

0

2000

$44,140

$8,550

$15,000

0

Grant applications are due every year on July 15 for disbursement the following calendar year. Grant awards are made in September and disbursements begin January 1st ; ie: funds disbursed in 2009 were actually remitted to the Bar Foundation in 2008.

2001

$44,140

$9,400

$19,200

0

2002

$33,000

$9,100

$15,950

$9,100

2003

$0

$5,600

$22,000*

*$14,000 of this was Equal Justice Campaign funds which can only be used for civil legal aid to the poor

$0

2004 $0 $7,500 $18,000 *$10,000 of this was Equal Justice Campaign funds which can only be used for civil legal aid to the poor $0
2005 $0 $0 $21,820 *$11,000 of this was Equal Justice Campaign funds which can only be used for civil legal aid to the poor $5,720
2006 $0 $0 $27,000 $13,000: $8k CASA   $5k WyCAN
2007 $0 $2200 (Wy H.S. Mock Trial program) $23,906

$8,000 Shoshone & Arapho Tribal Court

$5,000 Legal Aid Services Committee

$5,000 WyCAN

$3,000 Center for Resolution
2008 $8,500 $1,500 $25,755

$5,000 Rocky Mountain Innocence Center

$7,500 Wyoming Children’s Access Network

2009 $6,515 0 $27,545 $7,500 Rocky Mountain Innocence Center

$8,000 Shoshone & Arapahoe Tribal Court

TOTAL

$467,886

$93,450

$285,176

$88,320

GRAND TOTAL FROM 1989-2009: $934,832

The federal Legal Services Corporation, which was Wyoming Legal Services’ primary funding source, terminated the federal funding to WLS in the fall of 2008, forcing WLS to close its doors. Consequently, the 2009 IOLTA grant was awarded in 2008, but funds were not disbursed in 2009.