Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272910321
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Madison, WI, USA
- Phone
- 6082576844
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Legal Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,061
- Expenses
- $67,976
- Assets
- $188,249
- Liabilities
- $6,007
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIEL HOFF THRU 3125 (President)
- HON MICHAEL ZELL (Vice President)
- Nora Platt (President)
People named in this filing
- DANIEL HOFF THRU 3125 (President)
- SARAH DIEDRICK-KASDORF THRU 3125 (Treasurer)
- HOWARD BICHLER FORMER (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To develop and encourage means of expanding access to the civil justice system for unrepresented low-income Wisconsin residents
What it reported doing in 2024
1-WISCONSIN FREE LEGAL ANSWERS WFLA PROVIDES AN EASY TO USE WAY FOR ELIGIBLE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO OBTAIN FREE LEGAL ADVICE FROM LICENSED WISCONSIN ATTORNEYS. ATTORNEYS VOLUNTEER THEIR TIME TO ANSWER LEGAL QUESTIONS POSED THROUGH THE WEBSITE. 2-THE COMMISSION CONDUCTED PUBLIC OUTREACH AND EDUCATION THAT INFORMED THE PUBLIC AND DECISION MAKERS ABOUT THE VALUE AND IMPACT OF PROVIDING ACCESS TO CIVIL LEGAL AID TO ALL WISCONSIN RESIDENTS. 3-The commission conducts systems reform research and produces recommendations for changes to court rules, processes and related statutes that improve fairness in the court system.
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
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 69% for direct work, and 31% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.5%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 47.7%; rating input score 48
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.1%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.77; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40.5% of revenue deployed · 47.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 21 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.