Miami International Arbitration Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262366234
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Coral Gables, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3057981456
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $117,720
- Expenses
- $95,432
- Assets
- $199,228
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
People named in this filing
- SANDRA FRIEDRICH (ACADEMIC BO)
- RODOLFO PITALUGA JR (DIRECTOR - T)
- JOAN STEARNS JOHNSEN (ACADEMIC BOA)
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
The miami international arbitation society (mias) promotes the use of international arbitration and mediation and the selection of miami as the situs for international arbitration proceeding related to the resolution of transborder commercial and investment disputes. The society works to maintain and enhance the extensive infrastructure developed to encourage international arbitration in miami by supporting appropiate legislation, relevant academic programs at area universities, local international arbitration conferences, featuring distinguished practitioners as guest speakers, and providing training and legal updates to its members on the latest developments in international arbitration. The society also provides a forum where practitioners and others interested in international arbitration can network and exchage ideas and information about the growing practive area.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization's program accomplishments for 2024 include sponsoring, co-sponsoring, and / or financially supporting the virtual and in-person educational programs which the organization and the miami international arbitration foundation (miaf) provided, sponsored, co-sponsored, or financially supported include: jan 23, 2024: "recent developments in international arbitration: swiping left or right" - 60 participants may 22, 2024: mias membership webinar meeting "latam: recent trends and developments in commercial arbitration" - 150 participants sept. 25, 2024: "miami: private equity, hedge funds & international arbitration hub" - 70 participants dec. 1, 2024 : the 3rd annual latam investor-state arbitration -134 participants nov. 30 dec. 1-6 several programs during miami arbirtation week - (total participants 520 participants), including: 11/30: "tynley in town symposium in miami", and, "mias maw cocktail reception": 12/4: "fiu hangover event drafting arbitration provisions from an in-house counsel perspective", "frontiers in arbitration-; and, "emergency arbitration-; 12/5: "sports arbitration-; "technology in arbitraion- ; and, "art arbitration-; and, 12/6: "miami: the gateway to latin america- and "young mias & friends"
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 74.8%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.09; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59% of revenue deployed · 74.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $71K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.