Oklahoma Indian Legal Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 731142462
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Phone
- 4059436457
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,439,151
- Expenses
- $2,482,009
- Assets
- $1,025,780
- Liabilities
- $1,118,081
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL MITCHELSON (PRESIDENT)
- TYSON BRANYAN (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- STEPHANIE HUDSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHANIE HUDSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $147,406 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Oklahoma indian legal services is dedicated to representation where federal indian, tribal and treaty law arise. Oils is a nonprofit corporation primarily funded by the legal services corporation (lsc). Establisehd in 1981, its purpose is to provide legal service to low-income native americans living in Oklahoma. Oils attorneys provide representation with indian land issues, the indian child welfare act and tribal court civil and criminal representation. Oils provides legal services statewide to one of the largest native american populations in the united states. The organization is governed by a fifteen member board of directors, who oversee policy decisions.
What it reported doing in 2024
With legal services corporation funding, oils attorneys provide free and quality legal services to low-income Oklahoma tribal members. Our attorneys are experts in federal indian law and in the courts of the indian nations of Oklahoma. Oils helps tribal elders navigate complicated indian land problems. We also prepare end of life documents for the elders. Oils keeps tribal families together by ensuring compliance with federal laws meant to protect them. Oils educates tribal members about their civil rights including wearing indigenous regalia at graduation, asking law enforcement to investigate missing and murdered indian women, and informing officials about experiences with federally run indian boarding schools.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 79% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.5%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.8%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.8%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.09; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.5% of revenue deployed · 97.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $147K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.