Louisiana Supreme Court Committee on Bar Admissions
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 721577644
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Metairie, LA, USA
- Phone
- 5048305463
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Law, Jurisprudence
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,409,786
- Expenses
- $1,177,639
- Assets
- $1,771,925
- Liabilities
- $857,990
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MONIQUE DRAKE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MONIQUE DRAKE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $107,650 total reported compensation
- MEGAN O'CAIN (DIRECTOR OF TESTING): $98,946 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 administer the Louisiana state bar exam, review state bar applications and educate the public on the requirements to practice law in the state of Louisiana.
What it reported doing in 2024
Participate in educational programs at local law schools to educate potential applicants as to the bar admissions process.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.5%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.5; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.5%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $108K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.