Women Owned Law
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814884775
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- York, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7178462246
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $179,052
- Expenses
- $142,841
- Assets
- $185,070
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NANCY J MERTZEL (PRESIDENT TH)
- SHIRA KATZ SCANLON (VP/PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- NANCY J MERTZEL (PRESIDENT TH)
- SHIRA KATZ SCANLON (VP/PRESIDENT)
- ARIANA J TADLER (VICE PRESIDE)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support and advance women owned law firms and other women entrepreneurs in the law.
What it reported doing in 2025
Interactive virtual program providing insider's view when women law firm founders and leaders pull back the curtain on how woman lawyers can launch their own firms and, yes, thrive participants gained essential knowledge to start and run their own law firm, focusing on critical pain points: financial security, hiring, marketing - learning best practices to achieve sustainability and growth. Included effective strategies to plan for opening day and reliable how-to's for managing daily operations, through practical sessions, led by successful women and law firm owners.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
- 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: 82
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.2%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.3; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.5% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 24 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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.