Conference of Western Attorneys General AG Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680250561
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Elk Grove, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9163231992
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,519,863
- Expenses
- $10,944,614
- Assets
- $9,489,415
- Liabilities
- $378,450
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Karen White (Executive Dir.): $945,267 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Share Legal Information of Common Interest
What it reported doing in 2024
Alliance Partnership Mexico: The Alliance Partnership Mexico (AP Mexico) is funded by a federal grant from INL (the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs), part of the U.S. State Department. AP Mexico provides legal training to Mexican prosecutors, investigators, forensic experts, and analysts to improve their ability to work together to investigate and prosecute crime. The programs improve the efficiency, transparency, and accuracy of the Mexican justice system while protecting individual rights. AP Mexico works to foster lines of communication between U.S. and Mexican state Offices of the Attorney General at the line and leadership levels to improve cooperation in the fight against transnational crime. It also educates the Mexican law enforcement community and public on the nature of Mexico's adversarial oral trial system. Finally, it supports INLs goals of collaboration among other Rule of Law grantees to ensure consistency across training programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 79%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.6%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69% of revenue deployed · 79% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $8.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $945K · 5 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.