Trial Lawyers Care
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522346888
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2012
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2029653500
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Legal Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Trial lawyers care has as its purpose the provision of free legal services to assist the victims and representatives of the victims of the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001 in obtaining compensation pursuant to the federal legislation referred to as the september 11 victims compensation fund. Since then, trial lawyers care has accepted donations from attorneys for disaster relief efforts and has provided grants to assist disaster relief efforts in other areas of the country.
What it reported doing in 2012
Trial lawyers care (tlc) was launched on september 24, 2001, the monday after president bush signed into law the legislation that created the september 11th victim compensation fund. Trial lawyers care was born as the largest, most successful single pro bono legal representation project in the history of american jurisprudence. Driven by a national tragedy of unprecedented dimensions and by the simple desire to help that had brought them into their profession in the first place, more than 1,000 trial lawyers provided free legal services to the victims of the terrorist attacks.post-9-11, tlc works to provide funds for disaster relief efforts, and provide grants to organizations that assist with disaster relief.
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
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
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: 0
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 0%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 5 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2010 to 2012
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.