Lawyers Committee for 911 Inquiry Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812563999
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Leechburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7248261001
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Interest Law
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,605
- Expenses
- $81,328
- Assets
- $31,644
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Jane Clark (Exec Dir/Director)
- Richard Gage (Director)
- Barbara Honegger (Board Chairman and Investigative Researcher)
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
Created to promote transparency and accountability regarding the tragic events of September 11, 2001. The organization shall conduct investigations and public education in the public interest regarding matters related to the tragic events of 09/11/2001 and the circumstances leading up to and following those events, with a focus on government accountability regarding investigation and prosecution of those responsible for the crimes related to 9/11. A primary goal of the organization is to help the public, as well as law enforcement agencies and Congress, learn the full truth regarding the events of 9/11 including verification of those components that are false. One method used by the organization will be filing of the Freedom of Information Act requests to obtain information from government agencies that will be disseminated to the public. The organization is also producing a full-length documentary of these efforts.
What it reported doing in 2025
On-going production costs of informational film to be release on our legal efforts to bring about transparency and justice for September 11, 2001. On-going Production costs of $56,576 are included in some of the line item total on Form 990-EZ - Page 1 as follows: Line 12 $16,850; and Line 16 $39,726.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.2%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 70.8%; rating input score 71
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.2%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -18.7% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -15.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -27.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.2% of revenue deployed · 70.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.