Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Inc
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What it says it does
To promote fairness and justice through membership, education, services and support, public outreach, and a commitment to quality representation for all.
- Income
- $509,707
- Spending
- $507,686
- Employees
- 3
- Volunteers
- 100
- Highest pay
- $146,260, executive dir.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending November 30, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending November 30, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This return does not answer enough of the governance questions to score.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending November 30, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (2)
- $425,871 spent. Continuing Education Seminars: Georgia lawyers are required to complete a specific number of continuing education hours each year to maintain their Bar license. In FY2023, GACDL produced five continuing education seminars focused on topics specifically relevant to the criminal legal system, practice, and procedure to help its members achieve their professional licensure education mandate while also promoting the common good of criminal defense. Specifically, those seminars included: - Winter - Jan 2024 - Spring - April 2024 - Trial Skills Training - Aug 2024 - Defending Cases with Mental Health Implications - Oct 2024 - Fall - Nov 2024
- Membership, Generally: The following are included with membership in service and support of the GACDL community, particularly, and larger criminal legal system, more broadly: - Regular issues of a case law publication Whats the Decision? that highlights recent cases of import to or impact on the criminal legal system - Access to the GACDL Listserve where more than 1,000 members exchange practice, procedure, and general support for their litigation efforts, - Members-Only, website section that provides access to resources including template court pleadings,historical seminar materials, pattern jury charges, and expert witness contact information. - Networking with more than 1,200 other members, with a practice focus that includes free, temporary, emergency legal assistance for members who face punishment from the court as a result of their representation of a person facing prosecution in Georgia. - Committees through which members can formulate and express their positions on legislation, judicial appointments, amicus curiae briefs, and other matters affecting the administration of Georgias criminal legal system.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending November 30, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(6) business league.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Caution.
The IRS master file records contributions to this 501(c)(6) business league as not deductible.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending November 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since February 1977.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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