How much did American Association for Justice grant in FY2025?

American Association for Justice reported 52 grants totaling $4,787,740 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is American Association for Justice based?

American Association for Justice is based in DC.

American Association for Justice

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· Public charity

American Association for Justice

The mission of the association shall be to:seek justice for all...preserve the constitutional right to trial by jury...prevent injury from occurring...champion the cause of those who deserve redress for injury to person or property...promote the public good through concerted efforts to secure safe products, a safe workplace, a clean…

$4.8M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$4.0M

Largest

01What you fund

01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Crime & Legal$6.1MCivil Rights$4.1MEnvironment$360kCommunity Improvement$135kPublic Benefit$36kArts & Culture$9kHealth$6k

02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $32k
$10k–50k47 grants · $686k
$250k+1 grant · $4.0M

$14,160

Median grant

States reached

$38M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AAJ EDUCATION FUND	$4,000,000
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION	$35,000
ARIZONA TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION	$14,160
COLORADO TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION	$14,160
NEW MEXICO TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION	$14,160
MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE	$14,160
ALASKA ACADEMY OF TRIAL LAWYERS	$14,160
NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE	$14,160
NEVADA JUSTICE ASSOCIATION	$14,160
VIRGINIA TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION	$14,160
HAWAII ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE	$14,160
IOWA TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION	$14,160
MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE	$14,160
FLORIDA JUSTICE ASSOCIATION	$14,160
NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE	$14,160

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.6M · 53 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

53 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.6M

$156k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+91%

Still filing today

98%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Public BenefitCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalCivil RightsSocial ScienceOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

IT
Indiana Trial Lawyers Association
9× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +2%
DT
Delaware Trial Lawyers Association
9× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +36%
MT
MONTANA TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +38%

Funded once

PJ
PUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +91%
TL
THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC
one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -12%
CB
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +389%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Texas Trial Lawyers Association

To protect the constitutional guarantee of access to the courts and trial by jury, and provide an environment enabling our members to successfully and ethically engage in the practice of law, as they seek justice on behalf of their clients.

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Arkansas Bar Association

The purposes of the arkansas bar association include the following: advance the administration of justice; foster and maintain on the part of attorneys high ideals of integrity, learning, competence and public service, and high standards…

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Atlanta Association of Legal Administrators Foundation Inc

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California Judges Association

Judicial education and administration

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Afl-Cio Union Lawyers Alliance

Afl-cio union lawyers alliance was established to better the conditions of working men and women and their families by enhancing the quality of legal representation that is available to the afl-cio and the national and international unions…

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Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association

Provides education to criminal defense professionals.

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Lawyers for Civil Justice

The purposes for which the corporation is organized are to provide a means for defense trial lawyers and others to be heard, state a position and motivate reform of the United States civil justice system. See Schedule O

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Kentucky Bar Association

To maintain a proper discipline of the members of the bar in accordance with the rules set forth by the kentucky supreme court and with the principles of the legal profession as a public calling, to initiate and supervise, with the…

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San Francisco Trial Lawyers Assoc

To promote civil justice through education and trial advocacy.

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The Virginia Bar Association

To cultivate & advance the science of jurisprudence, promote reform in the law & in judicial procedure, facilitate the administration of justice in virginia, and to uphold & elevate the standard of honor, integrity, and courtesy in the…

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The Hartford County Bar Association Inc

To advance jurisprudence and administration of justice, to uphold and improve the professional and educational standards of the legal profession and provide the public with a lawyer referral service to advance the cause of law.

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American College of Trial Lawyers

The american college of trial lawyers is dedicated to maintaining and improving the standards of trial practice, the administration of justice and the ethics of the profession with over 5,000 fellows across the us and canada.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Association for Justice Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vermont Association for Justice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/59

the rest of the field

13%

240,395/1,819,506

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

57/58

Grantees still filing

42/58

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$9,705,870Community Improvement$622,440Crime & Legal$227,440Civil Rights$105,000Public Benefit$66,000Social Science$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization American Association for Justice funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines