US District Court for the Northern District of CA Historical Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
942462331
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2007
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone
4155224246
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$594,518
Expenses
$686,338
Assets
$278,680
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

38 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ragesh Tangri (President)
  • Hon Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • John Briscoe (Director)
  • Rose Carmen Goldberg (Director)
  • Laura Hurtado (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Northern District Historical Society has been protecting and enlivening the rich judicial history of the District. The goal of the Society is to preserve and share history and law with lawyers, educators, scholars, and others with an interest in history.

What it reported doing in 2024

For over 25 years the Northern District Historical Society has been protecting and enlivening the rich judicial history of the court. From the Chinese Exclusion Laws to Patty Hearst to cutting edge technology disputes, the Northern District has been in the thick of the some of the thorniest problems and most interesting events in California history. The goal of the Society is to preserve, share and enliven the court's history with lawyers, educators, scholars and students.Past program presenters have included: Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor; Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and his brother, Northern District Court Judge Charles Breyer; New York Times Supreme Court correspondent Linda Greenhouse; former Soliticer General Seth Waxman; former White House Counsels John Dean, Abner Mikva and Greg Craig; Pulitzer prize winning Professor Jack Rakove; and Harvard Professor Charles Ogletree, Jr.The Society's major preservation project is a book about the Northern District, published in 2013. Other preservation projects have included a series of oral histories of judges. Starting with Judge Wollenberg, who in a previous career as a United States Attorney prosecuted train robbers and Prohibition violators in the 1920's, the histories continue through to judges who are currently on the bench. These histories capture not only the facts of Northern District cases, but the flavor of the times through the judges' reminiscences.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 52
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 99%; rating input score 99
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: 89.5%; rating input score 89; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -15.4%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 99.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 35.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 34 of 38 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $680K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 38 people listed
  • Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.