Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 591156260
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Phone
- 4078417777
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,919,197
- Expenses
- $19,209,776
- Assets
- $26,666,919
- Liabilities
- $14,817,754
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFFREY HARVEY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- KEVIN ROSS-ANDINO (PRESIDENT/ CHAIR)
- SHERRI AKIN (CO-VICE PRESIDENT)
- CARRIE RENTZ (CO-VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JEFFREY HARVEY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $274,944 total reported compensation
- DANIELLE HARRIS (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $202,396 total reported compensation
- THERESA KOZUB (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $189,772 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provides no-cost legal services to the most vulnerable in central Florida, helping them protect their families, health, and livelihood.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community legal services is a full service civil legal aid law firm that promotes legal aid for all. Approximately 92% of low-income americans' do not receive enough or any legal assistance for a civil legal assistance (see lsc 2022 justice gap report). Nearly one million people in central Florida qualify for our services. Our lawyers and advocates provide no-cost legal aid, helping approximately 10,000 individuals and their families in central Florida each year. We help vulnerable and low income people resolve civil legal matters that make a difference in their everyday lives, including protecting their families, health and livelihood.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.3%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 76.7%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $30.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.2%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.56; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.3% of revenue deployed · 76.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 16 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $275K · 19 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $702K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.