Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 136003018
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2123826640
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Law, Jurisprudence
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,732,777
- Expenses
- $10,700,461
- Assets
- $15,369,051
- Liabilities
- $827,572
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
48 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MUHAMMAD U FARIDI (PRESIDENT (AS OF 6/24))
- SUSAN J KOHLMANN (PRESIDENT (END 6/24))
- BRET PARKER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KURT DENK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - CBJC)
- EILEEN TRAVIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - LAP)
Highest reported compensation
- BRET PARKER (VICE PRESIDENT): $346,786 total reported compensation
- ALEXANDER PAPACHRISTOU (EXEC DIRECTOR - VANCE CENTER): $257,516 total reported compensation
- TANYA MARTINEZ-GALLINUCCI (EXEC DIRECTOR - ODEIB): $229,720 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 city bar fund, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the New York city bar association, undertakes public service, education, policy advocacy and research activities through the city bar justice center, cyrus r. Vance center for international justice, (continued on schedule o) (continued from page 2) the lawyer assistance program and the office for diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
What it reported doing in 2024
The vance center advances global justice by engaging lawyers across borders to support civil society and an ethically active legal profession. The vance center is a unique collaboration of international lawyers catalyzing public interest innovation. We bring together leading law firms and other partners worldwide to pioneer international justice initiatives and provide pro bono legal representation to social justice ngos within the human rights and access to justice program, the environment program, the institutional integrity program, and the public interest reporting program. The vance center's programs to strengthen the legal profession engage law firms, bar associations, law schools, and pro bono clearinghouses with innovative diversity, rule-of-law, and public interest initiatives, (continued in schedule o) (continued from page 2) including women in the profession, african legal fellows, the lawyers council for civil and economic rights in the americas, the access to justice practicum, and the pro bono promotion program, including co-managing the pro bono network of the americas, as well as through the keep families together initiative, providing pro bono legal support in central america and elsewhere to children and families separated by u.s. Immigration policies. The public interest reporting program includes the lawyers for reporters program, providing pro bono legal representation to local and mission-driven journalism organizations across the united states, and serves as legal counsel to reporters shield, a nonprofit supporting media organizations worldwide with legal defense and other benefits to confront vexatious defamation claims. The vance center estimates that the value of the pro bono work of lawfirms on behalf of vance center clients exceeds $15 million.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 81%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 95.5%; rating input score 96; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.44; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.3% of revenue deployed · 81% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 30 of 30 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $8.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $347K · 48 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $126K reported
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.