Smith County Bar Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810585548
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Tyler, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9035262700
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $71,638
- Expenses
- $83,879
- Assets
- $35,443
- Liabilities
- $7,590
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICK PESINA (PRESIDENT)
- MARISA ALLEN (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
People named in this filing
- NICK PESINA (PRESIDENT)
- MARISA ALLEN (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- MISHAE BOREN (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
The mission of the smith county bar association is to provide professional development, education, and service programs for the legal community serving smith county. Since 1933, the scba has been providing programs that strengthen the integrity and professionalism of law practices; support the wellbeing of the legal community throughout smith county; and increase the involvement of legal professionals with community partners.
What it reported doing in 2024
Wellbeing and service opportunities - the scba recognizes that the legal profession is a high pressured and high intensity career field. Burnout and recruitment issues not only impact local firms and businesses, they impact our entire community. Smith county, and all of east Texas, needs a healthy population of judges, attorneys, paralegals, etc. The scba provides a variety of opportunities for legal professionals to reduce stress and focus on their wellbeing. Annually, such programs impact approximately 400 legal professionals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.1%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 61.5%; rating input score 62
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 47.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.1% of revenue deployed · 61.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.