Delaware Trial Lawyers Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510237953
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2009
- Location
- Wilmington, DE, USA
- Phone
- 3024212801
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $393,835
- Expenses
- $357,797
- Assets
- $900,682
- Liabilities
- $280,837
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rachel D Allen (President-Elect)
- James R Donovan (Immediate Past President)
- Lauren A Cirrinicione (President)
- Patrick C Gallagher (Vice President)
- Carolyn Donofrio (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Carolyn Donofrio (Executive Director): $130,367 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Membership organization established to promote the trial practice of law, advance common law and the finest traditions of jurisprudence, and to provide education, networking and other services to its members.
What it reported doing in 2024
Seminars, education and conventions to advance the mission of the trial lawyers to promote justice for the public good.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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: 93
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.2%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.52; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.4%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $130K · 23 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.