Maine Community Law Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474320262
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Portland, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2076719596
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-293
- Expenses
- $17,405
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH STOUT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ELIZABETH STOUT (PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTOPHER NORTHROP (VICE PRESIDE)
- CECILIA GUECIA (TREASURER)
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
To increase access to justice by providing low cost legal services to modest means clients; to provide a structured educational training program for new lawyers interested in serving modest means clients and/or starting a solo or small firm practice.
What it reported doing in 2022
Prior to the pandemic, the organization provided low cost legal services to modest means clients; provided structured educational training for new lawyers interested in serving modest means clients and/or starting a solo or small firm practice. In march 2020, due to pandemic restrictions, the office temporarily closed and court proceedings were suspended.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 87% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 96.5%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6,040.3%; rating input score 1; 1st 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: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.4% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2015 to 2022
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.