Georgia Association for Women Lawyers
Legal name: Georgia Association for Women Lawyers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582063270
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia, US
- Phone
- (404) 496-5358
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $186,379
- Expenses
- $187,029
- Assets
- $300,823
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- EBONY PHILLIPS (DIRECTOR)
- TAMMY THOMAS (DIRECTOR)
- TYRONIA SMITH (DIRECTOR)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To advance women in the legal profession and promote gender equality in the justice system.
What it reported doing in 2025
Georgia local chapters of Georgia association for women lawyers inc. ("gawl") - gawl is a statewide organization with eight local chapters existing to reach the local members throughout the state of Georgia. Gawl has oversight of these local chapters, and the vice president of each local chapter is required to attend the monthly gawl board meetings.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 37
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.8%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 36.1%; rating input score 36
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.3%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 36.8% of revenue deployed · 36.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $68K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.