Atlantic County Bar Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222134706
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Atlantic City, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 6093453444
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,429
- Expenses
- $114,652
- Assets
- $29,079
- Liabilities
- $6,839
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Melissa Rosenblum (Immediate Past President)
- Van McPherson III (President)
- Rick McKelvey (President Elect)
- Julie Nugent (Vice President)
- Tamara M Lamb (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Tamara M Lamb (Executive Director): $60,367 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote, further, and maintain the honor and dignity of the legal profession, promote and encourage a more profound study of the law, the administration of justice, reforming the law and to establish and maintain an understanding of the law and the legal profession among the citizens of Atlantic County. The Association shall also cultivate social relations among its members, promote and foster legal education and the due administration of justice and reform in the law, assist in the provision of legal services to the public, promote good relations and understanding of the law by and with the public and to encourage its members to volunteer for pro bono services in areas of their expertise.
What it reported doing in 2024
Events are held to foster fellowship between members and to provide continuing legal education.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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: 82
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th 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; 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: Pass
- 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: -9.8%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $60K · 22 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.