Rural Access To Justice Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 821843262
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2022–2023
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2020
Location: Waupaca, WI, USA
Phone: 7156029755
Rating: 69
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Family Services

Reported finances

Revenue: $144,681
Expenses: $111,068
Assets: $178,349
Liabilities: $110,429

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

People named in this filing

Richard Bidwell (Chairman)
Kathy Bidwell (Chairman)
Arturo Vigueras (Vice Chairman)

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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To offer free or reduced legal services based on income. To provide affordable legal services to traditionally under represented populations. To help ensure that all communities and populations have access to affordable legal services. To assist and aid 501 (c) 3 organizations in fulfilling their missios and goals.

What it reported doing in 2023

Operating model

Revenue model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 57
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 61
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 51%; rating input score 51
Program expense ratio: 66.4%; rating input score 66

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 23.2%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.62; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 34.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 41.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 35.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 135.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 51% of revenue deployed · 66.4% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $74K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2023
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.

Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.