Spokane County Bar Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 916187659
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5094772665
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $330,098
- Expenses
- $394,859
- Assets
- $214,930
- Liabilities
- $2,917
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Darren Digiacinto (President)
- Nicholas Pontarolo (President Elect)
People named in this filing
- Darren Digiacinto (President)
- Nicholas Pontarolo (President Elect)
- Lisa Dickinson (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
It is the mission of the spokane county bar association to enhance theintegrity and competence of the legal community and to pursue greateraccess to justice for all county residents.
What it reported doing in 2024
Practice area support and committee involvement. Scba members areinvited to affiliate with "sections of the association that concernsimilar practice areas, interests, or industry experience. Membershipin practice area sections promotes camaraderie, networking, andfellowship in the legal profession. The association maintains thefollowing active sections: young lawyers division, indian law section, intellectual property section, diversity section, family law section, solo & small practice section and elder disability and estate planning section.additional accomplishments of the diversity section and the younglawyers division are as follows: the diversity section: the mission ofthe diversity section is to promote diversity in the local legalcommunity and ensure equal opportunity and inclusion for spokaneattorneys regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, practice area, age and disability in the membership, leadership and activities of the spokane county bar association. Th0rough collaboration with the gonzaga university school of law and other organizations, the diversity section is committed to promoting inclusiveness through ongoing efforts focusing on recruitment and retention of diverse attorneys within the local bar association andjudicial system. The young lawyers division: the mission of the yld isto provide networking, mentorship, and professional support to thosebegtnning their legal careers in spokane, represent the interests of new and young lawyers to the county and state bar associations, andpromote social and service opportunities in order to create a betterconnected and more collegial legal community. Members of the scba whoare under the age of 36 or within the first five years of practice(whichever occurs later) are automatically members of the yld withoutfurther dues or registration.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 75% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 23
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27.7%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 22.1%; rating input score 22
- 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -19.6%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 27.7% of revenue deployed · 22.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.