Charity profile · Historical source record

South Coastal Counties Legal Services, Inc.

EIN 04-3330208Human and Civil Rights Massachusetts Mid-sized

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Providing free legal help to low income and elderly clients

South Coastal Counties Legal Services (SCCLS) provides free civil legal services to low-income and elderly residents of our communities. The mission of the SCCLS is to achieve equal justice for the poor and disadvantaged through community based legal advocacy. SCCLS provides free civil legal services in the areas of housing law, family law, government benefits including social security disability, elder law, education law, and consumer law. SCCLS has staff who are fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. SCCLS can provide other translation services when needed to assist non-English speaking clients.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

87.14Overall score
out of 100

97.50Financial score
out of 100

82.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$5,655,421

Total expenses · USD$5,224,199

Program expenses

$4,633,864.51 recorded amount

88.7%

Fundraising expenses

$99,259.78 recorded amount

1.9%

Administrative expenses

$485,850.51 recorded amount

9.3%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.01 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Susan Nagl
Recorded compensation: $126,972.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 2.43%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for South Coastal Counties Legal Services, Inc.
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	82.0
`category` Category	Human and Civil Rights
`description` Mission & description	South Coastal Counties Legal Services (SCCLS) provides free civil legal services to low-income and elderly residents of our communities. The mission of the SCCLS is to achieve equal justice for the poor and disadvantaged through community based legal advocacy. SCCLS provides free civil legal services in the areas of housing law, family law, government benefits including social security disability, elder law, education law, and consumer law. SCCLS has staff who are fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. SCCLS can provide other translation services when needed to assist non-English speaking clients.
`ein` EIN	04-3330208
`tot_exp` Total expenses	5224199.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.09300000000000001
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.01
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.019
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.887
`fscore` Financial score	97.5
`leader` Recorded leader	Susan Nagl
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	126972.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.024300000000000002
`motto` Tagline	Providing free legal help to low income and elderly clients
`name` Charity name	South Coastal Counties Legal Services, Inc.
`tot_rev` Total revenue	5655421.0
`score` Overall score	87.14
`state` State code	MA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Advocacy and Education
`size` Source size label	mid
`program_exp` Program expenses	4633864.513
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	99259.781
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	485850.50700000004

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 04-3330208
Source category: Human and Civil Rights
Source subcategory: Advocacy and Education
Recorded location: Massachusetts (MA)
Expense-based size: Mid-sized
$3.5M–$13.5M in total expenses · source label: mid

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.