Capital District Women's Bar Association
Overview
Mission
The legal project provides access to the protections of the law to advance the safety, stability and independence of the people we serve and strengthen our communities. We do this by advising, advocating for and representing people who have traditionally had difficulty obtaining civil legal assistance.
What it reported doing in 2024
Legal representation and advice - the legal project believes that all people should have access to legal services. This belief represents a deep commitment to fairness and equal justice under the law. The mission of the legal project is to make the law more accessible to those in need, to increase the legal community's involvement in pro bono work, and to serve as a resource on legal issues. The legal project feels a special commitment to women and others who may have difficulty obtaining legal assistance. During 2024, the legal project served over 21,000 individuals in the capital region of New York state.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 89% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133841519
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Schenectady, NY, USA
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Legal Services
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 available reserves provide a limited financial cushion.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $110.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.76; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.6% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $112K · 17 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $163K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 annual filings from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.