Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431149594
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Jefferson City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 5736362822
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $70,534
- Expenses
- $65,873
- Assets
- $7,089
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TRAVIS JACOBS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MATTHEW FRY (BOARD MEMBER)
- HERMAN GUETERSLOH (EMERITUS)
- TRAVIS JACOBS (PRESIDENT)
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 association is formed exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes, including, without limitation, the following: (a) to promote study and research in the field of criminal defense law and the related arts; (b) to disseminate by lecture, seminars and publications the advancement of the knowledge of the law as it relates, directly and ancillary, to the field of criminal defense practice; (c) to promote the proper administration of criminal justice; (d) to foster, maintain and encourage the integrity, independence and expertise of the defense lawyer in criminal cases; (e) to foster periodic meetings of defense lawyers and to provide a forum for the material exchange of information regarding the administration of criminal justice and thereby the improvement of criminal law, its practice and procedures.
What it reported doing in 2025
Macdl provides a case law update for members via the macdl website. In addition, macdl provides a biweekly enews bulletins, facebook and x (twitter)posts regarding events/news relative to the criminal defense bar.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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: 37
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 13; 13th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th 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 · 23 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.