Austin Legal Access

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
883794519
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Pflugerville, TX, USA
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Legal Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$48,414
Expenses
$42,353
Assets
$8,442

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AndraNise Thomas (President)
  • Marcia Garnett (Vice-President)

People named in this filing

  • Dyan Lofton (Director & Managing Attorney)
  • AndraNise Thomas (President)
  • Marcia Garnett (Vice-President)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The primary exempt purpose of Austin Legal Access is a 501c3 charitable organization that offers affordable legal services in Austin Texas and surrounding areas. Our mission is to provide affordable legal services on a sliding scale to low-to-moderate income individuals. The organization is organized exclusively for charitable educational and scientific purposes under section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code or corresponding section of any future federal tax code.

What it reported doing in 2025

Under our primary program we 4 represented private-pay customers in 2025 in family criminal probate and other civil matters. Based on the going rates for attorneys in Texas we estimate that we saved these clients a total of $14,000 over the year an average of $3,500.00 per client. Additionally we represented 4 third-party payer clients estate planning clients via contract as a subcontractor of the City of Austin.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 70.2%; rating input score 70
  • Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -70.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -31.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 112% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 70.2% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $34K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.