Green Bag Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311563469
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2025500000
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Law, Jurisprudence
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $78,880
- Expenses
- $62,913
- Assets
- $99,383
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Brice (Vice President)
- Ross Davies (President)
People named in this filing
- James Barker (Secretary and Treasuer)
- John Brice (Vice President)
- Ross Davies (President)
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
Producing content useful and of interest to lawyers, scholars, students, and citizens
What it reported doing in 2025
Publication of our Green Bag Almanac & Reader -- the book-length annual review of developments in the law and excellence in legal writing, combined with a featured aspect of human culture outside the law and its relationship to the law -- which is closely associated with our flagship journal, The Green Bag: An Entertaining Journal of Law (and has a readership at least as wide as the Green Bag's); persons benefited included all Green Bag subscribers (who automatically receive a copy), as well as the many libraries who requested copies (the focus of the 2025 edition was libraries and legal research). In 2025, we marked the 20th edition anniversary of the Almanac & Reader series. Total direct cost: $7,023.51.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 comfortably covers expenses. 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: 35
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.2%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 40.4%; rating input score 40
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.2%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.58; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.2% of revenue deployed · 40.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 32/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.