Charles Houston Bar Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853816649
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4158138284
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,534
- Expenses
- $21,018
- Assets
- $41,234
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MINDY WONG (President)
- NEDRA SHAWLER (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- NICOLE BRYSON (Treasurer)
- MINDY WONG (President)
- SARON TESFAI (Secretary)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CHARLES HOUSTON BAR INSTITUTE was established to engage in charitable and educational activities allowed under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (Code) and Sections 214 and 23701 d of the California Revenue and Taxation Code, as amended; to provide educational services and programs to improve access to justice; to provide legal services to under-served San Francisco Bay Area communities; to promote the access of African Americans to justice and the court; to support social justice causes that promote the elimination of bias, systemic racism, and racial inequality; to increase diversity within the legal community and on the bench; and to engage in any other charitable activity.Community Services: Applicant will provide at least one community service event per year, to or for the benefit of communities served by Applicant, such as the African American community and under-represented and/or impoverished communities, with the goal and purpose of introducing
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide educational services and programs to improve access to justice; to provide legal services to under-served San Francisco Bay Area communities; to promote the access of African Americans to justice and the court; to support social justice causes that promote the elimination of bias, systemic racism, and racial inequality; to increase diversity within the legal community and on the bench; and to engage in any other charitable activity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.2%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -35.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.96; rating input score 65; 65th 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: -64.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -104.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -25.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.