The Legal Revolution

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
874067350
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
St Paul, MN, USA
Phone
6124897218
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Crime, Legal Related N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,128,861
Expenses
$1,623,035
Assets
$805,040
Liabilities
$56,945

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MAYA PENNINGTON (CEO)
  • EMILY HUNT TURNER (CEO (FORMER))

Highest reported compensation

  • MAYA PENNINGTON (CEO): $151,693 total reported compensation
  • JONATHAN GEFFEN (EXECUTIVE DI): $151,001 total reported compensation
  • EMILY HUNT TURNER (CEO (FORMER)): $136,984 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of the nonprofit legal revolution (a legal subsidiary of all square) is to empower people impacted by the criminal legal system to move forward with healing, community, and hope. We fight for a world where those who finish their legal sentences are all square, meaning truly unencumbered by their criminal records socially, economically, and politically.

What it reported doing in 2025

The mission of the nonprofit legal revolution (a legal subsidiary of all square) is to empower people impacted by the criminal legal system to move forward with healing, community, and hope. We fight for a world where those who finish their legal sentences are all square, meaning truly unencumbered by their criminal records socially, economically, and politically. The legal revolution invests in people through a nonprofit civil legal services law firm and a legal education program. The legal revolution law firm a nonprofit law firm that provides no-cost record clearing services and community education on legal concepts related to reentry. The law firm also serves as a training ground for justice-impacted legal students and professionals. The prison to law pipeline a partnership with accredited academic programs and local departments of corrections to provide access to legal education programs to currently incarcerated individuals. This includes a juris doctorate program and a certified paralegal certificate program.

Operating model

Revenue model
Affiliate-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $10.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th 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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: -43.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.9%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 30.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -15.3% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $152K · 8 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.