The Lawyers' Club of Philadelphia

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
230792340
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phone
2155578686
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$67,935
Expenses
$39,162
Assets
$255,236
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MOHAMED BAKRY (PRESIDENT)
  • LARRY BROWN (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT)
  • MATT STONE (SECOND VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • MOHAMED BAKRY (PRESIDENT)
  • LARRY BROWN (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT)
  • MATT STONE (SECOND VICE 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The purpose of the club is to promote camaraderie among members of the bench and the bar in the philadelphia area. It seeks to encourage civility and cordial relations between those who represent similar and differing interests: between the bench and the bar; prosecutors and defenders; plaintiff and defense attorneys; government counsel; and all other differing interests. For members of the profession, it provides a convenient forum where they can disregard the differing interests which they represent and enjoy their common dedication to the profession. It seeks to avoid all politics both in and outside of the profession and the handling of all controversial matters, which are more properly the province of the local bar association.

What it reported doing in 2025

Receptions held to honor various courts that serve the philadelphia area in order to promote better relations between the bench and the bar.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 83% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 59
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 81
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 50.5%; rating input score 50
  • Program expense ratio: 74%; rating input score 74

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 42.4%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.52; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 50.5% of revenue deployed · 74% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $29K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.