Hampshire County Bar Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223131516
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Northampton, MA, USA
- Phone
- 4135868729
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,521
- Expenses
- $147,110
- Assets
- $262,265
- Liabilities
- $5,436
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALLISON PASH (PRESIDENT)
- MAREN LAW (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN W DRAKE (TREASURER)
- ALLISON PASH (PRESIDENT)
- SARAH DOLVEN (CLERK)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of the organization shall be to maintain the honor of the profession, to promote the administration of justice, to advance the science of jurisprudence and to foster and encourage cooperation and good fellowship among the members of the bar, as a non-profit corporation pursuant to the laws of the commonwealth of Massachusetts.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hbca & lrs - lawyer referral service
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -35.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $147K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.