Iowa State Police Association Legal Defense Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 326824906
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Gilbertville, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5152995320
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $116,349
- Expenses
- $14,882
- Assets
- $166,623
- Liabilities
- $65,156
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- DAVID MCFARLAND (TRUSTEE)
- GAVIN CARMAN (TRUSTEE)
- RYAN ANDERSON (TRUSTEE)
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
The Iowa state police association legal defense fund (ldf) trust is a labor organization (legal defense fund trust) established to protect and to better the conditions of our members who are law enforcement officers across the state of Iowa. Our primary mission is to provide high quality legal representation and safeguards to our members for acts or omissions occurring within the scope of their employment. By ensuring due process and legal protection in a high-risk profession, the trust improves the stability, morale, and professional standards of Iowa's law enforcement community.
What it reported doing in 2025
The core activity of the ldf is the provision of legal defense services and its administration. These services are conducted by a curated panel of licensed Iowa attorneys who specialize in civil and criminal law. The trust provides coverage in the following areas: critical incident response: the trust maintains a 24/7 emergency response system. In the event of an officer-involved shooting or other critical incident, a panel attorney is immediately dispatched to provide on-site legal counsel.administrative & certification defense: representing officers during internal critical incident investigations, certification investigations and associated proceedings that threaten their livelihood.criminal defense: providing legal defense for officers facing criminal allegations arising from actions during the scope of their employment, such as use-of-force encounters.civil monitoring: while employers often provide a defense for civil suits, the ldf provides monitoring counsel to ensure the individual officer's professional interests and personal liability are fully protected, separate from the city or county's interests.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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: 100
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 87.2%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.2; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.