Equal Justice Wyoming Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273029906
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Cheyenne, WY, USA
- Phone
- 3077778383
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Legal Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $574,042
- Expenses
- $431,221
- Assets
- $1,870,059
- Liabilities
- $1,858
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFFERY VAN FLEET (PRESIDENT)
- ANGIE DORSCH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- JEFFERY VAN FLEET (PRESIDENT)
- ANNIE DROPPERT (TREASURER)
- ROBERT WALTERS (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The equal justice Wyoming foundation strengthens and defends access to justice and civil legal services in Wyoming through fundraising and other supportive activities. Our guiding principle is that every individual should have full and equal access to justice, regardless of his or her financial means.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide grants to civil legal service providers and supporting educational efforts. We work closely with the Wyoming supreme court, access to justice commission, Wyoming state bar, equal justice Wyoming, legal service providers and community organizations across the state to accomplish our mission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 82% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.8%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 63%; rating input score 63
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 59%; rating input score 59; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.9%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.34; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 44.8% of revenue deployed · 63% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $272K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 24 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.