Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363815301
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3124018090
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $51,395
- Expenses
- $43,051
- Assets
- $20,880
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jonathan Brayman (PAST PRESIDENT)
- Katherine A Drummond (President)
- Tracey Harkins (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- Alana DeLeon (Vice President)
- Kulmeet Bob Galhotra (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Daniel Fultz (Director)
- Jonathan Brayman (PAST PRESIDENT)
- Katherine A Drummond (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote study and research in the field of criminal law; disseminate knowledge of the practice of law as it relates to the field of criminal defense practice.promote proper administration of criminal justice; foster, maintain and encourage the integrity, independence and expertise of the defense lawyers in criminal cases; foster meetings of the criminal defense bar and to provide a forum for the exchange of information.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide seminars for attorneys that are relevant to the practice of criminal law; annual dinner to honor distinguished attorneys within the profession
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Assets have declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.3%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.2%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.3% of revenue deployed · 81.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $35K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 24 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.