Essex County Bar Foundation
Legal name: Essex County Bar Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 221661299
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Newark, NJ, US
- Phone
- (973) 622-6207
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $68,352
- Expenses
- $25,361
- Assets
- $435,427
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CARMEN DIAZ (PRESIDENT)
- MARY TOSCANO (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MAURO TUCCI JR (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- JAMES DIGIULIO (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- G GLENNON TROUBLEFIELD (OUTGOING IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CARMEN DIAZ (PRESIDENT)
- MARY TOSCANO (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DONNA CAMERON (TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The ECBF supports the charitable and educational mandate of the Foundation, including scholarships and memorial services.
What it reported doing in 2024
The foundation promotes the legal profession by providing continuing legal education and scholarships to the legal community and strives to improve the public's understanding of and access to the judicial system. The organization provides community outreach to the public through regular legal education programming which includes annual law day programs and other events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 87
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 21%; rating input score 21
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 62.9%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 17.17; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.1% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 21% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.