Timpanogos Legal Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453633760
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Orem, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8016498895
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Legal Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $675,823
- Expenses
- $694,541
- Assets
- $485,960
- Liabilities
- $54,350
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD SHEFFIELD (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SUSAN GRIFFITH (EXECUTIVE DI): $84,806 total reported compensation
- TATIANA CHRISTENSEN (EXECUTIVE DI): $45,828 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 primary purpose of the organization is to provide free legal services to low-income people and victims of domestic violence. Our mission is to empower victims of domestic violence and low-income utahns to navigate the legal system through innovative and trauma-informed legal services. The organization recruits and trains legal professionals to provide pro bono work in new and meaningful ways, which enables thousands of people each year to pursue or defend their rights in court and ensure stability and security for their families. We named our organization after mount timpanogos with the vision that we will lift our clients like the peaks of the mountain elevate our eyes upward. Our motto is "lifting lives through the law".
What it reported doing in 2025
Timpanogos legal center (tlc) continued in 2025 to successfully deliver direct legal services in the areas of family and housing law for low-income utahns and victims of abuse. During the year, tlc provided legal assistance statewide through its legal advice hotline, weekly and regional legal clinics, and document preparation services, delivering approximately 9,900 legal service interactions across urban and rural communities. Tlc also strengthened internal operations through full implementation of a new case management system to improve efficiency and service delivery, expanded staff capacity by hiring a part-time spanish-speaking attorney, and experienced a leadership transition with the former executive director stepping into a development role to support continued organizational growth.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.8%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 79.5%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: -2.8%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.8% of revenue deployed · 79.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $552K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $85K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.