Louisiana Association of Drug and Specialty Courts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 721386970
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lake Charles, LA, USA
- Phone
- 3372143297
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug and Substance Abuse, Dependency Prevention and Treatment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $196,292
- Expenses
- $58,945
- Assets
- $334,522
- Liabilities
- $3,850
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSICA SAVOIE (PRESIDENT)
- PAM RUSSELL (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JESSICA SAVOIE (PRESIDENT)
- PAM RUSSELL (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MCKENZIE GAUTHIER (SECRETARY)
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
To reduce substance abuse, crime, and recidivism while lowering associated costs and promoting public safety throughout Louisiana. In furtherance of this mission, the organization promotes and advocates for the establishment, expansion, and sustainable funding of effective drug courts; provides technical assistance and mutual support to its members; encourages the development of other judicially supervised treatment programs where appropriate; collects and disseminates information relevant to its mission; and undertakes related activities necessary to accomplish these objectives.
What it reported doing in 2025
The ladsc annual conference, held in lake charles, Louisiana, provided comprehensive training sessions and interactive workshops for approximately 360 specialty court team members. Attendees included attorneys, treatment professionals, law enforcement personnel, and other key stakeholders. The conference focused on enhancing best practices, strengthening interdisciplinary collaboration, and improving outcomes within Louisiana's specialty court programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 70%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.68; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.