Morris County Bar Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222191304
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Morristown, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9732676089
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $375,361
- Expenses
- $294,883
- Assets
- $357,778
- Liabilities
- $23,465
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BETHANY A ABELE (PRESIDENT)
- LAWRENCE CUTALO (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTOPHER SCHELLHORN (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- LINDA MAINENTI WALSH (SECOND VICE PRESIDENT)
- STEVEN J LOWENTHAL (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- DEBORAH WOODBURY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DEBORAH WOODBURY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $90,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's exempt purpose is to maintain the honor and dignity of the profession of law, to promote an understanding of the law and its application in society, to foster the due administration of justice, and to promote a capacity of the bar for public service, particularly the provision of pro bono legal services in appropriate cases.
What it reported doing in 2024
Operation of the bar association lawyer referral service for the benefit of the membership and the general public in need of legal services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 88% 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: 90
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.4%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.21; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.