Mercer County Bar Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431956929
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Hermitage, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7243423111
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,748
- Expenses
- $111,553
- Assets
- $336,752
- Liabilities
- $152
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBRA A ARNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- RICHARD W EPSTEIN ESQ (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- AUTUMN L JOHNSON ESQ (PRESIDENT)
- DELANEY LANTZ ESQ (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DEBRA A ARNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MARGARET T LUCAS ESQ (TRUSTEE)
- CHESTER B SCHOLL JR ESQ (TRUSTEE)
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 uphold high standards of integrity and honor in the legal profession, to encourage and assist the membership in maintaining and improving its competence, to assist in making legal services more available, to aid and educate the public with regard to the law and the administration of justice, and to exert the association's influence for the betterment of the community on issues relating to the administration of justice.
What it reported doing in 2024
Providing continuing legal education to membership.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 68% 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: 82
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 40
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: 8.4%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.02; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.