Alliance for Legal Fairness

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
332437905
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Arlington, VA, USA
Phone
8458183588
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues

Reported finances

Revenue
$225,025
Expenses
$119,007
Assets
$106,018
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Leif Johnson (president)

People named in this filing

  • Leif Johnson (president)
  • Alexis Caswell (Director)
  • Robyn Hayes (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Members of this multi-sector coalition share a common interest in advancing policies that foster a dynamic and fair economic environment, particularly focusing on technology and privacy issues. Their collective goal is to influence and shape state-level legislation regarding the collection, treatment, and protection of personal information, specifically in light of evolving laws like the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

What it reported doing in 2025

Alliance for Legal Fairness ('The Association') was formed on December 17, 2024 for the purpose of operating a multi-sector coalition promotes policies that will foster a dynamic and fair environment for economic growth, with a specific focus on technology and privacy issues at the state level. In 2025, this includes specific efforts to educate the business community and policy makers on the state of wiretapping litigation in California, to clarify provisions of the California criminal laws relating to wiretapping so that abusive litigation will be reduced, and to provide litigation support in the form of amici curiae briefs regarding the same. ALF's educational and advocacy efforts will be guided by ALF's General Counsel, Lobbyist Employer and members, who are state policy professionals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 47.1%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.