The Women Lawyers' Association of Greater St Louis
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431787291
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3142412929
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,607
- Expenses
- $77,506
- Assets
- $56,022
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHANIE BLACK (PRESIDENT)
- ELIZABETH MCNULTY (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- JENIFER SNOW (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MONIQUE ABBY (PRESIDENT ELECT)
People named in this filing
- STEPHANIE BLACK (PRESIDENT)
- SHANNON DAWSON (SECRETARY)
- KATE LEDDEN (TREASURER)
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 purpose of the organization is to support the advancement of women in the legal profession; to encourage women attorneys to participate in the bar association; to provide a united effort for the appointment of women attorneys to positions of leadership; to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between lawyers and law students; to promote the role and impact of women attorneys within the community and the profession; to provide service to the public, to the legal profession and to the judiciary; and to take action to improve the status of women in the metropolitan st. Louis area
What it reported doing in 2024
Endorsement of women chosen by a commission for appointment by the governor to judicial openings and provide recognition for those appointed
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 76% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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 revenue has grown recently. 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: 6
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7.3%; rating input score 7
- Program expense ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 5
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -39.4%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 7.3% of revenue deployed · 5.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.