Court Watch Montgomery
Legal name: Court Watch Montgomery Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383848010
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Silver Spring, MD, USA
- Phone
- (301) 327-0029
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Victims' Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $93,248
- Expenses
- $99,774
- Assets
- $96,474
- Liabilities
- $3,189
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karin Green (President)
People named in this filing
- Alana Brown (Executive Dir.)
- Karin Green (President)
- Joan Zlotnik (Director)
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
Expanding justice for domestic violence victims.
What it reported doing in 2025
Court Watch Montgomerys programmatic mission is having eyes on the court to gather data and record insights on the experience of domestic violence survivors in our court system. In 2025, Court Watch volunteers monitored 1680 domestic violence protective order hearings in Montgomery County courthouses. Four extensive initial training sessions for 29 new volunteers and ongoing education for established volunteers empowered 70 community members to monitor hearings and enter data. In 2025, volunteers donated approximately 4,500 hours in court and behind the scenes. Court Watch published a Staggered Exit Report, as we have each of the last few years. And our staff maintained regular communication with local and state court administrators as well as partner organizations to promptly flag issues and collaboratively resolve any problems to improve court processes and protect victims.
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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $100K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.