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American Board of Trial Advocates - Chapters

To foster improvement in the ethical and technical standards of practice in the field of advocacy for individuals in the civil justice system. The organization works to preserve the jury system and improve the skills of trial lawyers.

$531k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$210k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$161,200
Organizations funded a year
2 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$4.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations American Board of Trial Advocates - Chapters funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Crime & LegalEducationCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHealthFood & NutritionOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$210k33%
FY20234$99k50%
FY202210$200k70%
FY20212$107k50%
FY20205$262k40%
FY20199$157k67%
FY20187$76k86%
FY20174$68kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$838kEducation$230kPublic Benefit$78kPhilanthropy$10kHealth$10kMembership Benefit$9kFood & Nutrition$5k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
WI
OR
WY
SD
NJ
CA
MO
VA
KS
AR
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Foundation of the American Board of Trial Advocates$624,303612%
Loyola Marymount University$122,50030%
American Board of Trial Advocates$111,49631%
Civics Learning Project$52,50052%
Marquette University$27,50040%
Milwaukee Justice Center$25,0001n/a
Civic Learning Council$20,0002n/a
Milwaukee Bar Association Foundation Inc$20,000113%
Arkansas Mock Trial Foundation Inc$15,0001n/a
The Foundation of the Federal Bar Association$12,50010%
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All grantees of American Board of Trial Advocates - Chapters by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Foundation of the American Board of Trial Advocates$624,303612%
Loyola Marymount University$122,50030%
American Board of Trial Advocates$111,49631%
Civics Learning Project$52,50052%
Marquette University$27,50040%
Milwaukee Justice Center$25,0001n/a
Civic Learning Council$20,0002n/a
Milwaukee Bar Association Foundation Inc$20,000113%
Arkansas Mock Trial Foundation Inc$15,0001n/a
The Foundation of the Federal Bar Association$12,50010%
South Dakota Deposition Academy$12,0001n/a
University of Texas at El Paso$11,0001n/a
Keep Kansas Courts Impartial Inc$10,00011%
UW Foundation$10,0001n/a
University of Wisconsin Foundation$10,00010%
Tex-Abota Legislative and Education Fund Inc$10,000123%
Albie Aware Inc$9,70014%
American Board of Trial Advocates$8,5001n/a
Pete Peterson Scholarship Fund$7,5001n/a
San Joaquin College of Law$7,50010%
Texas Tech Law School Foundation$6,77010%
Harvesters - the Community Food Network$5,00010%
St Mary's University$5,00010%
Partners for Women and Justice Inc$5,00010%
The Florida State University Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Texas Access to Justice Foundation$5,00010%
Teach Democracy$5,00010%
Montana Justice Foundation$5,00011%
University of Wyoming$5,0001n/a
State Bar of South Dakota$5,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget American Board of Trial Advocates - Chapters supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFoundation of the American Board of Trial Advocates: $624,303 over 6y, 12% of budgetLoyola Marymount University: $122,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Board of Trial Advocates: $111,496 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCivics Learning Project: $52,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMarquette University: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMilwaukee Bar Association Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe Foundation of the Federal Bar Association: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKeep Kansas Courts Impartial Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTex-Abota Legislative and Education Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetAlbie Aware Inc: $9,700 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSan Joaquin College of Law: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTexas Tech Law School Foundation: $6,770 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarvesters - the Community Food Network: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartners for Women and Justice Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Access to Justice Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach Democracy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMontana Justice Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetState Bar of South Dakota: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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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 21.

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 American Board of Trial Advocates - Chapters

How much does American Board of Trial Advocates - Chapters give?
American Board of Trial Advocates - Chapters reported 6 itemized grants totaling $209,700, out of $530,761 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does American Board of Trial Advocates - Chapters fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (71%), Education (19%), Public Benefit (7%).
Who are American Board of Trial Advocates - Chapters's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Foundation of the American Board of Trial Advocates ($624k), Loyola Marymount University ($123k), American Board of Trial Advocates ($111k).
Does American Board of Trial Advocates - Chapters fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Board of Trial Advocates - Chapters?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is American Board of Trial Advocates - Chapters based?
American Board of Trial Advocates - Chapters is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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