Somerset County Bar Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237146700
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Somerville, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9086852323
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,001
- Expenses
- $82,618
- Assets
- $31,029
- Liabilities
- $4,168
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RYAN S CAREY (PRESIDENT)
- ARTHUR MARGEOTES (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT)
- RITA AQUILIO (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- JOSEPH C TAURIELLO (PRESIDENT)
- KRISTYL BERCKES (SECOND VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RYAN S CAREY (PRESIDENT)
- ARTHUR MARGEOTES (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT)
- SARAH M EATON (TRUSTEE)
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
Improve business conditions for practicing law
What it reported doing in 2024
Legal services for persons in need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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: 31
- Growth: 60
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: -8.7%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 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 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.