Muscatine Legal Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 420960316
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Muscatine, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5632638663
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $144,801
- Expenses
- $154,523
- Assets
- $93,499
- Liabilities
- $16,695
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TRISHA STEVENS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DANIEL HARDIN (PRESIDENT)
- JEAN A PFEIFFER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- COURTNEY ARNDT (MEMBER)
- SHARON PHILLIPS (MEMBER)
- ALEC FOWLER (MEMBER)
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
The mission of muscatine legal services is to provide quality legal representation to low-income residents of muscatine county and provide information about the law and legal process to the general public.
What it reported doing in 2024
Muscatine legal services provides direct representation to low income residents of muscatine county and helps to disseminate knowledge about the law and legal processes to the public. We cover a wide variety of civil legal problems facing low income muscatine county residents. These include domestic violence, public assistance and benefit programs such as social security and unemployment compensation, illegal evictions and consumer matters. Our office also assists clients with custody and dissolution of marriage actions where child support, alimony payments and property division may be an issue. By pursuing these matters on behalf of our clients a positive economic impact is realized for both individuals and for muscatine county. Anytime a resident can secure an economic benefit, they are less reliant on the public welfare system or the county for their support. Our office is also involved with the legal representation of minor children in two types of court proceedings. These are custody cases and children in need of assistance cases. By representing minors in these types of actions, we assist the court with ensuring that the children are part of the legal process and adequately protected during legal proceedings. Mls does guardianship and conservatorship cases as well as draft wills and power of attorney documents for clients. In 2017 mls started assisting county residents who became subject to foreclosure actions. While several clients have eventually lost their homes in these types of actions; we have had some success in delaying sale and gaining time for others to refinance or obtain cash and resources to catch up their mortgage and save the property from foreclosure.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.4%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.