Lawyers' Association for Women Marion Griffin Chapter

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
581615781
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Nashville, TN, USA
Phone
6154286657
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$160,200
Expenses
$112,445
Assets
$198,367
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JANNA EATON SMITH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (THRU 9/2025))
  • KAYCE JOHNSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (EFF. 9/2025))
  • LEIGHANN NESS (PRESIDENT)
  • SHUNDRA MANNING (PRESIDENT ELECT)
  • COURTNEY ORR (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JANNA EATON SMITH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (THRU 9/2025))
  • KAYCE JOHNSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (EFF. 9/2025))
  • LEIGHANN NESS (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

The lawyers' association for women ("law") is a bar association for women to support their advancement in leadership positions in law firms and on the bench.

What it reported doing in 2025

Law consists of approximately 400 members annually who are lawyers in all aspects of the legal field both in private and public practice. Law's premier event is a breakfast held in november every year on the morning of the swearing in of new lawyers with the supreme court of Tennessee to celebrate new admittees to the bar and their families. Law also holds membership luncheons in order for attorneys to network and gain continuing education credit. In addition, law hosts an annual meeting and awards banquet in april of every year to celebrate recipients of the rising star award, the martha c. Daughtrey award and a local high school essay contest winner which contest is organized by the diversity, equity and inclusion committee of law. The new slate of officers is also voted upon at this meeting of the membership. In addition to these events, law hosts mentoring, networking, practicing parents and wellness events for its members. Law also issues a bi-monthly newsletter for its members containing articles of interest, recaps of the monthly meetings, member spotlight articles, to name a few.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 68% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 61
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 52%; rating input score 52
  • Program expense ratio: 76.7%; rating input score 77

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 29.8%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.76; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 30.9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 27.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 52% of revenue deployed · 76.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $86K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.