Florida Justice Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
591291221
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Tallahassee, FL, USA
Phone
8502249403
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$6,060,954
Expenses
$5,760,207
Assets
$2,464,472
Liabilities
$1,020,438

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

87 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JEFF PORTER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • STEPHEN F CAIN (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
  • TODD J MICHAELS (PRESIDENT)
  • WAYLON THOMPSON (PRESIDENT-ELECT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JEFF PORTER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $487,308 total reported compensation
  • ROB PAULK (DIRECTOR OF FUND DEVELOPMENT): $304,985 total reported compensation
  • JOHN BRAZZELL (DEPUTY EXEC DIR, CHIEF OF STAFF): $207,115 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Promotes the development of law in Florida

What it reported doing in 2024

Member services - provide members with educational opportunities to increase their proficiency in the practice of law. These are publishing a law journal in print and electronically, producing seminars and research materials distributed from the seminars and workshops, and providing members with peer-to-peer opportunities to share references and research through local and statewide meetings and the internet.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 84% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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: 81
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

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

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 98.8%; rating input score 99; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 32.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 79 of 80 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $487K · 87 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $210K reported
  • Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 11 filed related-organization links
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.