New York Council of Defense Lawyers Educational Services Inc C/o H Sandick
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133518008
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2129301235
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $160,503
- Expenses
- $156,697
- Assets
- $144,264
- Liabilities
- $131,705
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JUSTINE HARRIS (PRESIDENT)
- JILLIAN BERMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JUSTINE HARRIS (PRESIDENT)
- JILLIAN BERMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- HARRY SANDICK (SECRETARY-TREASURER)
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 nycdl's mission includes protecting and ensuring individual rights guaranteed by the u.s. Constitution by rule of law through education; supporting and advancing the criminal defense function by enhancing the quality of defense representation; taking positions to important defense issues; promoting study and research in the criminal justice system; and promoting the proper administration of criminal justice.
What it reported doing in 2025
Symposium, lunches & dinners attended by membership, federal judges, and u.s. Attorneys on current issues in the defense of complex criminal cases. This is in line with the principal aim of the organization, which is to foster and develop excellence in the practice of criminal law. Fundraising from the luncheons, dinners and retreats fund annual contributions to the nyu school of law and the ostrow scholarship fund.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 83% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.5%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 92.7%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.4%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.91; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.5% of revenue deployed · 92.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $145K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.