International Alliance of Law Firms

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
331219498
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Phone
6127706046
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$904,375
Expenses
$898,432
Assets
$158,099
Liabilities
$2,991

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PAOLA SANGIOVANNI (PRESIDENT)
  • JUAN PABLO M CARDINAL (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DENISE JUNQUEIRA (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • GINA TRESIDDER (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • HARVEY KONING (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JUDY MARSH (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • PAOLA SANGIOVANNI (PRESIDENT)
  • JUAN PABLO M CARDINAL (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT)
  • LINKY TROTT (SECRETARY)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To operate as an international network of members and to promote co-operation between law firms and legal practitioners dealing with local and international business throughout the world in order to enhance the status of the profession and the association and to maintain and wherever possible improve the quality and scope of services provided by the members and the profession.

What it reported doing in 2025

The alliance promotes cooperation between law firms dealing with international business in order to enhance the status of the profession and improve the quality of and scope of services provided by the members. This is accomplished by providing access to the international market place and presenting a forum for the generation of new business between member firms, providing access to detailed local knowledge of a foreign jurisdiction, providing an educational exchange, as well as a forum in which the lawyers of member firms can liaise with each other to establish both professional and social relationships. Finally, the organization raises the international profile of members with their respective and potential clients.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% 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: 50
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 40

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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.7%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $481K reported
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.