Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043200073
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3126986252
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,909
- Expenses
- $111,495
- Assets
- $105,944
- Liabilities
- $35,080
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL BROWN (DIRECTOR)
- TIERNEY CHADWICK (DIRECTOR)
- KATHLEEN FEDERICO (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To improve the administration of justice, legal education, and professional standards and to promote collegiality and civility among all members of the bar.
What it reported doing in 2024
Promoted collegiality and education for the members through the annual meeting, workshops, newsletter, and educational materials.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -25.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -40.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.