Cowboy Lawyers Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
954226452
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Encino, CA, USA
Phone
3102774857
Rating confidence
Limited

Reported finances

Revenue
$24,199
Expenses
$16,556
Assets
$21,964

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • L MORRIS DENNIS (President)

People named in this filing

  • L MORRIS DENNIS (President)
  • MARSHALL OLDMAN (Treasurer)
  • MARY BENNETT DENOVE (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The California lawyers association is a California nonprofit mutual benefit corporation that is a private social club for lawyers and judges who like to camp and horseback ride. The corporation is a tax exempt social club under the provisions of secion 501(c)(7) of the internal revenue code of 1986. The club owns no property, it has no employees, and it pays no compensation to any directors or officers. All of the clubs receipts are used to fund club and social and recreational activities

What it reported doing in 2025

All of the clubs events were are used to fund club and social and recreational activities involving lawyers and horses

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
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 31.6%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.33; rating input score 55; 55th 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: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 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: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.