San Fernando Valley Bar Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 956054387
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Woodland Hills, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8182270490
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $357,511
- Expenses
- $540,272
- Assets
- $501,639
- Liabilities
- $174,412
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SETH CHAVEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- AMANDA MOGHADDAM (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT BROWN (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- KYLE ELLIS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SETH CHAVEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $148,592 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To advocate on members behalf, educate members and public concerning the law, promote highest standards of professionalism, promote meaningful access to justice and create a more diverse legal profession.
What it reported doing in 2024
Various public service programs include family law mediation, diversity committee, mandatory fee arbitration program, modest means program, probate attorney settlement panel, and senior citizen legal service program, over 1,000 individuals served.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 67% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -51.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $149K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.