Tarrant County Bar Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 750782505
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8173384902
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,066,144
- Expenses
- $1,140,091
- Assets
- $1,110,813
- Liabilities
- $649,334
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT LINDSEY (President)
- MARVINA ROBINSON (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- JOHNBROOKMAN (Vice President)
- ELIZABETH HALSAM-THRU 824 (TCYLA PRESIDENT)
- OLA CAMPBELL-FROM 924 (TCYLA PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KAYLADAILEY (Executive Dir.): $114,640 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The association exists to advance the science of jurisprudence; to facilitate and improve the administration of justice; to maintain and to elevate standards of professional conduct; to increase professional skills through regular continuing legal education; and to encourage and promote a better understanding of the legal profession by the public.
What it reported doing in 2024
Seminars promoting professionalism among lawyers through continuing education and specialty conferences. Association and its 18 sections continues to provide its members with various avenues for cle, providing over 100 hours during the fiscal year ending in 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% 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
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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.58; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $115K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.