Legal Hope

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
451288621
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2022
Forms available
Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2022
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2537970661
Rating
44
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$59,929
Expenses
$98,219
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ARIANA TANAKA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • ASHLEY OTT (DIRECTOR)
  • MARIA MANZA (DIRECTOR)
  • LOGAN BRYANT (DIRECTOR)

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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

At legal hope, we build a community of legal support for survivors of sex trafficking, domestic violence, and sexual assault by partnering with law firms and corporations' pro bono legal teams. Our pro bono attorneys provide free legal aid to break down barriers, uphold rights, and protect the safety of survivors. All services are provided free of charge to survivors. We prioritize access to justice and offer a trauma-informed, flexible model of services.

What it reported doing in 2022

Legal hope: builds a community of legal support for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and sex trafficking in the criminal justice system. We partner with law firms and corporations to train their pro bono attorneys and provide technical assistance and support throughout the case.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 85% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 7
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 7.7%; rating input score 8
  • Program expense ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 5

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: -63.9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.4%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -32.8% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8.4% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 7.7% of revenue deployed · 4.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2019 to 2022
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 6 filed related-organization links
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.