Tarrant County Bar Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752748222
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8173384092
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $418,896
- Expenses
- $287,449
- Assets
- $1,949,419
- Liabilities
- $26,533
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- KAYLA DAILEY (SEC/EXEC DIR): $119,640 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, including purposes which support, promote and encourage activities of justice and legal education through the sponsorship and encouragement of legal research, publications, institutes, forums, and the establishment of sholarships; assistance of the institution and maintenance of legal aid facilities for the indigent or working poor and the acceptance of aid and grants from government and private sources; the extension of financial assistance to attorneys or members of an attorney's family who are "in need" as defined under the internal revenue service regulations and the foundation's bylaws; any other activity which will promote and aid an improved system for the administration of justice and improvement of the bench and bar in tarrant county, Texas, and elsewhere; and the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the irc of 1986.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community services provides grants to others to further their exempt purpose - the foundation provided support for the following organizations by providing the facility, underwriting the costs, (including tcba staff), and volunteers for various legal and charitable projects: legalline, a free call-in service for basic legal information; national adoption day; and people's law school. The foundation also hosts and performs various services to aid the community including blood drives and the publishing and distribuition of the elder law handbook.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 58% for direct work, and 42% for grants.
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: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.6%; rating input score 23
- Program expense ratio: 25.8%; rating input score 26
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 31.9%; rating input score 32; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 31.4%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.78; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.6% of revenue deployed · 25.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $74K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $120K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 4 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 23/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.