Arkansas Bar Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710262732
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Little Rock, AR, USA
- Phone
- 5013754606
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,728,559
- Expenses
- $1,768,061
- Assets
- $1,784,396
- Liabilities
- $1,113,317
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
67 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CAROL DALBY (PRESIDENT-ELECT DESIGNEE)
- JAMIE JONES (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- KRISTIN PAWLIK (PRESIDENT)
- MARGARET DOBSON (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- KAREN HUTCHINS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KAREN HUTCHINS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $230,274 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purposes of the Arkansas bar association include the following: advance the administration of justice; foster and maintain on the part of attorneys high ideals of integrity, learning, competence and public service, and high standards of conduct; encourage the legal profession and its individual members to perform more effectively and efficiently their responsibilities in the public interest; conduct a program of continuing legal education for attorneys; provide a forum for the discussion of subjects pertaining to the practice of law; improve the judicial and legal process, and advance law and order; and encourage practices that improve the honor and dignity of the legal profession.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mock trial competition provided simulated real world trial experience for students from several high schools.the association creates and publishes over a dozen handbooks and legal systems concerning various areas of law practice. Written by experienced attorneys, the publications provide legal forms, relevant law, procedural rules and practical "how to" advice for the practice of law in the specific area covered.arkansasfindalawyer matches attorneys with those needing the services of an attorney. There were over 200 participating attorneys.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 94% 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: 71
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 20
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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.3%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.62; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 67 of 67 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $230K · 67 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.