How much does Accesslex Institute give?

Accesslex Institute reported 38 itemized grants totaling $2,282,755, out of $2,719,087 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Accesslex Institute fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Crime & Legal (37%), Science & Tech (7%).

Who are Accesslex Institute's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: State Bar of California ($1.2M), American Bar Foundation ($1.0M), Law College Association of the University of Arizona ($795k).

Does Accesslex Institute fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Accesslex Institute?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Collegiate Athletic Association, Folds of Honor Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies.

Where is Accesslex Institute based?

Accesslex Institute is based in PA.

Foundation Dossiers

Pennsylvania · Public charity

Accesslex Institute

ACCESSLEX INSTITUTE is an organization underpinned by a membership comprised of approximately 200 american bar association (aba)-approved nonprofit and state-affiliated law schools and is dedicated to improved educational access for diverse and underrepresented students, increased affordability, and enhanced and lasting value in legal…

$2.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 38
Itemized grants FY2025: 33
Organizations funded FY2024: 27%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $2.3M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $175,000
Organizations funded a year: 14 to 40; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 19
Total assets, FY2025: $1.6B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Accesslex Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $621k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationCrime & LegalPublic BenefitOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	32	$2.3M	25%
FY2024	33	$2.1M	27%
FY2023	36	$1.8M	22%
FY2022	40	$2.3M	38%
FY2021	29	$1.7M	38%
FY2020	26	$1.9M	58%
FY2019	14	$936k	50%
FY2018	16	$1.4M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$7.1MCrime & Legal$5.3MScience & Tech$1.1MHealth$382kCivil Rights$250kFood & Nutrition$250kPublic Benefit$100k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
State Bar of California	$1,165,500	6	n/a
American Bar Foundation	$1,031,976	7	2%
Law College Association of the University of Arizona	$794,658	5	9%
The Association for Institutional Research	$744,093	4	7%
Association of American Law Schools Inc	$725,000	7	2%
Indiana University School of Medicine	$601,438	7	n/a
Pennsylvania State University	$500,000	3	n/a
Dillard University	$487,069	5	0%
University of Arkansas Fayetteville	$310,323	4	n/a
Illinois Institute of Technology	$301,082	3	0%

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All grantees of Accesslex Institute by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
State Bar of California	$1,165,500	6	n/a
American Bar Foundation	$1,031,976	7	2%
Law College Association of the University of Arizona	$794,658	5	9%
The Association for Institutional Research	$744,093	4	7%
Association of American Law Schools Inc	$725,000	7	2%
Indiana University School of Medicine	$601,438	7	n/a
Pennsylvania State University	$500,000	3	n/a
Dillard University	$487,069	5	0%
University of Arkansas Fayetteville	$310,323	4	n/a
Illinois Institute of Technology	$301,082	3	0%
New York Law School	$275,000	4	0%
Uc College of the Law San Francisco	$253,031	6	n/a
University of Miami	$250,000	2	0%
Regents Univ of California	$250,000	1	n/a
University of St Thomas	$222,300	3	0%
University of Utah	$215,832	2	n/a
Elon University	$210,674	6	0%
Northern Illinois University	$209,834	4	n/a
Legal Education Access Pipeline Inc	$201,407	3	30%
Willamette University	$194,944	3	0%
University of Wisconsin Madison	$186,752	4	n/a
American Bar Association	$183,833	4	0%
Council on Legal Education Opportunity Inc	$170,812	4	5%
Western New England University	$160,750	4	0%
Michigan State University College of Law	$160,000	2	n/a
National Center for State Courts	$160,000	2	0%
American University	$158,098	5	0%
St John's University New York	$156,347	4	0%
Texas A&M Health Science Center	$155,686	1	n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$154,288	3	n/a
Hofstra University	$152,480	3	0%
McNeese State University	$125,000	3	n/a
University of Denver	$125,000	2	0%
University of Massachusetts	$124,662	2	n/a
University of Cincinnati	$121,415	2	n/a
University of Texas at El Paso	$120,953	2	n/a
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc	$120,741	3	0%
Association of Law School Diversity Professionals	$115,000	1	n/a
Roger Williams University	$106,250	2	0%
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction	$104,187	3	4%
Florida International University	$103,231	2	n/a
National Center for Civic Innovation In	$100,000	1	0%
Association Of Academic Support Educators Inc	$100,000	4	31%
District of Columbia School of Law Foundation	$100,000	3	2%
Regents of the University of Colorado	$100,000	1	n/a
Appalachian School of Law	$100,000	3	1%
Arkansas State University System Foundation Inc	$94,076	3	0%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$93,750	2	n/a
Florida Atlantic University	$90,000	1	n/a
University of San Diego	$89,770	3	0%
Emory University	$86,603	1	0%
Syracuse University	$84,999	4	0%
University of Hawaii System	$81,702	3	n/a
University of Houston	$81,250	2	n/a
Monterey College of Law	$81,000	1	2%
Legacy Law School Corporation	$80,236	2	80%
Behavioral Insights Institute	$80,000	2	100%
University of North Texas at Dallas Foundation	$75,000	3	n/a
Bowie State University Foundation Inc	$75,000	1	1%
Touro University	$63,750	1	0%
Ohio State University Foundation	$62,500	1	0%
North Carolina Central University Foundation Inc	$60,000	1	0%
Wayne State University	$54,677	3	n/a
City University of New York	$49,868	1	n/a
University of Maryland College Park	$49,316	1	n/a
University System of New Hampshire	$42,614	2	n/a
University of Arkansas at Little Rock	$41,667	1	n/a
The NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education	$36,000	3	2%
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College	$30,400	3	0%
University of Maine School of Law Foundation	$30,000	2	2%
Pepperdine University	$27,380	2	0%
New England Lawboston	$25,000	1	0%
St Louis University	$25,000	1	0%
University of San Francisco	$25,000	2	0%
Thomas M Cooley Law School	$20,750	2	0%
Washington University	$20,460	1	0%
University of North Dakota-College of Business & Public Admin	$17,500	1	n/a
Southwestern Law School	$17,500	2	0%
Baylor University	$17,500	2	0%
The Ohio State University	$15,200	1	n/a
Florida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc	$15,000	1	0%
The City University of New York School of Law Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Seattle University	$10,000	1	0%
Albany Law School	$10,000	1	0%
University of Mississippi	$10,000	1	n/a
Golden Gate University	$10,000	1	0%
Concordia University Chicago	$8,500	1	0%
Loyola University Maryland Inc	$8,000	1	0%
Southern Education Foundation Inc	$5,893	1	0%

Accesslex Institute supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 57.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN18.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · American Council of Learned Societies · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · Helix Bar Review Inc · American Chemical Society · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Ibm International Foundation · Law School Admission Council · National Academy of Sciences · Cornell University

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Accesslex Institute

How much does Accesslex Institute give?: Accesslex Institute reported 38 itemized grants totaling $2,282,755, out of $2,719,087 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Accesslex Institute fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Crime & Legal (37%), Science & Tech (7%).
Who are Accesslex Institute's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: State Bar of California ($1.2M), American Bar Foundation ($1.0M), Law College Association of the University of Arizona ($795k).
Does Accesslex Institute fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Accesslex Institute?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Collegiate Athletic Association, Folds of Honor Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies.
Where is Accesslex Institute based?: Accesslex Institute is based in PA.