South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program

Analysis

South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program is a registered charity in United States, based in Mobile, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program reported income of $456k and spending of $430k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $396k to $456k (+15%), an average of +3.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 71st percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Stepping Stones Safe Haven Inc ($456k), Root Social Justice Center Inc ($456k) and Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation ($455k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $63k (15% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $208k. At year end it held assets of $608k against liabilities of $158k, net assets of $450k.