Seaside Legal Services

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
463725244
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Laguna Beach, CA, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Human Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$113,390
Expenses
$85,609
Assets
$117,861

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RUTH STAFFORD (Vice President)
  • VICKI GUMM (President)

People named in this filing

  • JANE FULTON (Executive Dir.)
  • RUTH STAFFORD (Vice President)
  • TRACEY CHRISTOFFERSON (Secretary)

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

To serve low income residents of southern orange county with pro bono legal services.

What it reported doing in 2024

Provided pro bono legal services to over 200 clients in southern orange county, involving landlord/tenant, family law and the relocation of many low income senior citizens made homeless by change of their restricted property to market rate. Seaside legal services also provides a monthly legal clinic at the local senior center.

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
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: 82
  • Sustainability: 65
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 24.5%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.38; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 26.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 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.