Legal Information Preservation Alliance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
352339701
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2023
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2023
Location
Dunkirk, MD, USA
Phone
4439753816
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$90,216
Expenses
$113,366
Assets
$44,833
Liabilities
$4,452

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Michelle M Trumbo (Executive Dir.)
  • Sharon Bradley (Board Member)
  • Stephanie Davidson (Board Member)

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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

LIPA is a non-profit consortium dedicated to the preservation and accessibility of legal information through collaboration, education, and advocacy.

What it reported doing in 2023

Sponsored digital archive projects and web archiving service for members. Sponsored law review preservation program for law libraries. Managed print repository project (PALMPrint) jointly with NELLCO for member libraries. Co-sponsored open access repository for legal scholarship. Conducted educational programs, maintained a website of preservation resources and a registry of digital projects, and served 100 member libraries.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -25.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 52.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -12.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $91K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2015 to 2023
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.