How much does American Association for Justice give?

American Association for Justice reported 52 grants totaling $4,787,740 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does American Association for Justice fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (57%), Civil Rights (38%), Environment (3%).

Who are American Association for Justice's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Association for Justice Education Fund ($4.0M), Ewg Action Fund ($495k), Indiana Trial Lawyers Association ($128k).

Does American Association for Justice fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is American Association for Justice based?

American Association for Justice is based in DC.

American Association for Justice

American Association for Justice at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION METRO DC	$14,160
WEST VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE	$14,160
WASHINGTON STATE ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE	$14,160
INDIANA TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION	$14,160
UTAH ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE	$14,160
OREGON TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION	$14,160
TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE	$14,160
MASSACHUSETTS ACADEMY OF TRIAL LAWYERS	$14,160
PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE	$14,160
SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE	$14,160
WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE	$14,160
NORTH CAROLINA ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE	$14,160
CONNECTICUT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION	$14,160

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

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

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

How this is measured

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

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

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

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+15%

+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

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.

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%
MA
MISSISSIPPI ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE
9× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +100%

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 +304%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Association for Justice Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

57/58

Grantees still filing

43/58

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

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

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Association for Justice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Association for Justice. Bigger dots raise more.

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

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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 endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home