Illinois · Public charity
American Bar Endowment
To make distributions to 501(c)(3) organizations including, in pact, to advance legal study and research and to promote the administration of justice and uniformity of judicial decision throughout the u.s.
- $9.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,940,342
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 20
- Total assets, FY2025
- $224M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations American Bar Endowment funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $327k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $8.7M | 74% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $8.0M | 83% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $7.6M | 86% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $7.4M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $7.0M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $6.9M | 14% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $7.0M | 65% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $7.2M | 76% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education | $31,848,296 | 9 | 5% |
| American Bar Foundation | $31,622,062 | 9 | 44% |
| Government Accountability Project | $231,830 | 1 | n/a |
| The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union | $165,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - Md Chapter | $90,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The National Judicial College | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Alaska State Association for Guardianship & Advocacy | $70,000 | 2 | 76% |
| Chabad Lubavitch of the Lehigh Valley Inc | $64,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Foundation for Baltimore County Public Library | $50,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Northern Kentucky Legal Aid Society | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 97 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
American Bar Endowment supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Equal Justice Works · Legal Services Corporation · Tides Foundation · The Skadden Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education · Tennessee Bar Foundation · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Texas Bar Foundation
How this is measured
About American Bar Endowment
- How much does American Bar Endowment give?
- American Bar Endowment reported 31 grants totaling $9,417,795 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does American Bar Endowment fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (97%), Philanthropy (1%), Public Benefit (0%).
- Who are American Bar Endowment's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education ($32M), American Bar Foundation ($32M), Government Accountability Project ($232k).
- Does American Bar Endowment fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as American Bar Endowment?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Equal Justice Works, Legal Services Corporation, Tides Foundation.
- Where is American Bar Endowment based?
- American Bar Endowment is based in IL.
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