Philadelphia Diversity Law Group Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 233076938
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2156658500
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Employment N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,000
- Expenses
- $88,456
- Assets
- $163,345
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- W JOHN LEE (CO-PRESIDENT)
- JEROME MADDOX (CO-PRESIDENT)
- MELISSA MERKEL (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LOIS KIMBOL (VICE PRESIDENT FOR PROGRAMS)
People named in this filing
- W JOHN LEE (CO-PRESIDENT)
- JEROME MADDOX (CO-PRESIDENT)
- ALBERT S DANDRIDGE III (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The philadelphia diversity law group (pdlg) is committed to fostering participation of lawyers of varied backgrounds and life experiences in the oractice of law in the greater philadelphia region and beyond to make our legal profession stronger, more collaborative and more responsive. To fulfill this mission, pdlg creates innovative programs to enhance recruitment, advancement and promotion of lawyers by law firms and corporate law departments and to build community and connections.over the years, pdlg has implemented many programs and conducted many events to accomplish its mission. These programs and events have focused on four areas: lawyer recruitment, student pipeline, legal community education and lawyer retention.
What it reported doing in 2024
Program for first year law students who have come from disadvatanged backgrounds or from backgrounds that are under represented in the philadelphia law community. Through clerkships and conferences the program strives to allow participants to experience the law environment in philadelphia and perhaps help them "kick-start" their legal careers.key programs and events include: the pdlg advocate/protege program encourages retention of lawyers of varied backgrounds and life experiences by helping them navigate a path to law firm partnership. Pdlg will assist its member law firms in creating and implementing programs of partner (advocates) support and advocacy for participating senior-level associates (proteges). After the program, proteges should have a clearer insight into the path to partnership, an advocate to help guide them, and valuable business development/relationship skills that will strengthen and lengthen their careers at their firms.the pdlg fellows program offers first-year law students of varied backgrounds and life experiences a route to summer employment at outstanding law firms and legal departments. It also provides the pdlg fellows with a series of seminars and programs designed to enhance their skills and increase their knowledge of the philadelphia legal community.each year, pdlg presents its law school boot camp to help demystify law school for entering law students. Open to all incoming 1ls, boot camp is especially useful for those who do not have friends or family members who are lawyers or law students. Boot camp provides a taste of the first-year law courses (taught by professors who teach those courses), guidelines on doing law school well and a panel discussion of the many careers that are open to those with law degrees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 84.1%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.6%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.85; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 65.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93% of revenue deployed · 84.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $74K 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: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.