The Bar Association of Northern San Diego County

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
953247035
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Vista, CA, USA
Phone
7607585833
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$147,546
Expenses
$158,587
Assets
$93,767
Liabilities
$44,483

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAWN HALL CUNNEEN (President)
  • Melissa Engle (Vice President)
  • DAVID RUBIN (Vice President)
  • IRENE STEWART (Vice President)
  • CAMDEN RETZLAFF (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • SUZANNE SKOLNICK (Secretary/VP)
  • ERICA BLOOM (Director)
  • DAWN HALL CUNNEEN (President)

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 association is dedicated to providing its members with programs and services promoting the development of the legal profession. The objectives of ncba are:- to improve the education of its members;- to raise the standards of professional conduct;- to strive to achieve the highest level of professional competence;- to deliver the best possible legal service to the public;- to promote a better understanding of the legal profession by the public;- to encourage cordial and friendly relations among its members;- to maintain the honor and dignity of the bench and the bar;- to work for the establishment and improvement of the county and state judicial and administrative facilities in northern san diego county; and- to obtain greater recognition for its members in county and state judicial activities.

What it reported doing in 2024

Seminars and conventions provided to members to increase professional conduct and betterment of services offered to the general public

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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: 23
  • Growth: 40

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: -7.5%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 43.7%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.