Legal Aid of West Virginia Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311789739
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Charleston, WV, USA
- Phone
- 3043433013
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Legal Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,843,470
- Expenses
- $15,679,467
- Assets
- $8,505,548
- Liabilities
- $4,034,334
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREW NASON ESQ (PRESIDENT)
- ADAM TAYLOR (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ADRIENNE WORTHY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KATE WHITE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ADRIENNE WORTHY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $148,242 total reported compensation
- CHRIS MARTIN (IT DIRECTOR): $141,260 total reported compensation
- JENNIFER GREENING (ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR): $140,415 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To advocate for low-income, vulnerable west virginians seeking equal access to justice and create system change in order to improve client safety, health, housing, income, and access to resources.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide legal services in non-criminal proceedings to persons financially unable to afford such services. Representation for indivduals under the nursing home ombudsman act.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 83% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.8%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 95.8%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $227.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.8% of revenue deployed · 95.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $148K · 26 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.