Faculty of Federal Advocates
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841415295
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7206676049
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $118,763
- Expenses
- $174,745
- Assets
- $316,547
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY BUTTERTON (President)
- LAUREN DICKEY (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
People named in this filing
- DANIEL GRAHAM (IM PAST PRESIDE)
- MARY BUTTERTON (President)
- LAUREN DICKEY (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
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
To enhance advocacy skills, professionalism, and integrity of attorneys in the federal judicial system as well as supporting pro bono attorneys in the federal judicial system.
What it reported doing in 2024
Programs to improve legal practice in federal courts, including legal education (cle opportunities, the forum, the roundtable).
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.4%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 67.5%; rating input score 68
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -47.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.1%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.4% of revenue deployed · 67.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $118K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.