Skip to content

· Public charity

American College of Bankruptcy Foundation

To promote the educational and charitable activities of the american college of bankruptcy.

$718k
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$38k
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 2024.

Crime & Legal$3.7MHuman Services$98kYouth Development$49kEducation$30k
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $686k
$12,500
Median grant
23
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUST THE BEGINNING$38,341
VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES$27,500
CITY BAR JUSTICE CENTER$22,500
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA BANKRUPTCY BAR ASSOCIATION$20,000
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION OF DELAWARE$15,000
LEGAL ACCESS ALAMEDA$15,000
BIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC$15,000
CENTS$15,000
CARE LOS ANGELES$15,000
CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY ASSISTANCE$15,000
SOUTH ALABAMA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS$15,000
NASHVILLE CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER$15,000
EMERGENCY LEGAL RESPONDERS$15,000
LEGAL AID ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA$15,000
THE PRO BONO PROJECT$15,000
02The need
03

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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $263k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ELDER LAW OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 9%CENTS: $10k → 9%MID-SHORE PRO BONO INC: $15k → 10%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $15k → 23%SHORE LEGAL ACCESS INC: $13k → 10%PARACHUTE CREDIT COUNSELING INC: $10k → 13%CENTS: $10k → 9%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $10k → 23%MID-SHORE PRO BONO INC: $10k → 10%PARACHUTE CREDIT COUNSELING INC: $10k → 13%CENTS: $10k → 9%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $10k → 23%MID-SHORE PRO BONO INC: $10k → 10%CENTS: $8k → 9%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $10k → 23%MID-SHORE PRO BONO INC: $10k → 10%CENTS: $15k → 9%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $10k → 23%MID-SHORE PRO BONO INC: $10k → 10%CENTS: $15k → 9%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $8k → 23%MID-SHORE PRO BONO INC: $10k → 10%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $15k → 23%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $10k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

VT
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 74 repeat orgs$628k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +63% for those funded once.

74 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
52

Total granted

$3.3M
$493k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+63%

Still filing today

95%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationHealthSocial ScienceCivil RightsOther
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

  • VL
    VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT OF THE BOSTON BAR ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +36%
  • TP
    THE PRO BONO PROJECT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +64%
  • LA
    Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati
    8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • CL
    COMMUNITY LEGAL ACCESS
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • SL
    ST LOUIS BAR FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +26%
  • LA
    LEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +12%
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.

1
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
2
Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc

The mission of Virginia Legal Aid Society is to resolve serious legal problems of low-income people, promote economic and family stability, reduce poverty through effective legal assistance, and to champion equal justice.

Crime & Legal
3
Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas

To help low-income clients access the civil justice system by providing volunteer attorneys who donate free legal advice and representation, and by supporting and training those attorneys.

Crime & Legal
4
Legal Services of Long Island

To provide free legal assistance in non-criminal matters to persons meeting financial eligibility requirements or having other special needs.

—
5
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.

—
6
Community Legal Aid Socal

To provide civil legal services to low-income individuals and to promote equal access to the justice system through advocacy, legal counseling, innovative self-help services, in depth legal representation, community education, and economic…

Crime & Legal
7
Texas Legal Services Center Inc

Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro…

Crime & Legal
8
Legal Aid of East Tennessee

Legal aid of east tennessee provides legal representation, legal education, and other civil legal services for the low-income population in our community through advocacy of all types.

—
9
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
10
Volunteer Legal Advocates

To advocate for domestic violence victims, at-risk children, and other vulnerable individuals by providing over $22.8m in pro bono legal services, social service referrals, and on-going support; to train and support a strong network of…

Housing & Shelter
11
Legal Aid Service of Northeastern Minnesota

Our mission is to provide civil legal service to low-income clients. our legal services provide basic protection for our clients by enforcing the law when their rights have been violated, promote the self-sufficiency of individuals…

Crime & Legal
12
Idaho Legal Aid Services Inc Idaho Legal Aid Services Inc

Idaho legal aid services inc is a statewide nonprofit law firm dedicated to providing equal access for low-income people through quality advocacy and education

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pro Se Bankruptcy Assistance Project. 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

127 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. 127 of the 136 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/127
Grantees still filing
106/127
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT OF THE BOSTON BAR ASSOCIATION INC: $92,500 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC LAW CENTER: $82,500 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC COUNSEL: $82,500 · Crime & LegalVOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE IN: $79,999 · Crime & LegalLEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC: $77,500 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC SERVICE LAW CORPORATION DBA RIVERSIDE LEGAL AID: $77,500 · Crime & LegalPRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC: $70,000 · Crime & Legal+71 more: $1,446,105 · Crime & Legal+71 moreLegal Aid Society of Cincinnati: $82,500 · OtherLegal Aid Society of CincinnatiDC BAR PRO BONO CENTER: $82,500 · OtherDC BAR PRO BONO CENTERVOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD: $82,500 · OtherVOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTDVETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC: $80,000 · OtherVETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INCNeighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County: $75,000 · OtherNeighborhood Legal Services of Los A…LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $64,700 · OtherCONSUMER BANKRUPTCY ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $60,000 · OtherLegal Aid Association of California: $57,000 · Other+35 more: $656,500 · Other+35 moreTHE PRO BONO PROJECT: $87,500 · Human ServicesSHORE LEGAL ACCESS INC: $77,500 · Human ServicesConsumer Education and Training Services: $67,500 · Human ServicesPARACHUTE CREDIT COUNSELING INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesELDER LAW OF MICHIGAN: $10,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA WESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW: $68,024 · EducationJUST THE BEGINNING - A PIPELINE ORGANIZATION: $56,341 · EducationHER JUSTICE INC: $25,000 · EducationLAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $15,000 · EducationCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationCONEJO FREE CLINIC: $77,500 · HealthPRO BONO INDIANA INC: $15,000 · HealthASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC: $75,000 · Social ScienceGLBT Bar Association of Washington Foundation: $25,000 · Civil RightsCredit Abuse Resistance Education Los Angeles: $15,000 · Youth Development
Crime & Legal$2,008,604Other$1,240,700Human Services$262,500Education$174,365Health$92,500Social Science$75,000Civil Rights$25,000Youth Development$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT OF THE BOSTON BAR ASSOCIATION INC: $92,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PRO BONO PROJECT: $87,500 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Cincinnati: $82,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC LAW CENTER: $82,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetDC BAR PRO BONO CENTER: $82,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL: $82,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD: $82,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetVETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC: $80,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetVOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE IN: $79,999 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCONEJO FREE CLINIC: $77,500 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetSHORE LEGAL ACCESS INC: $77,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC: $77,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetPUBLIC SERVICE LAW CORPORATION DBA RIVERSIDE LEGAL AID: $77,500 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNeighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County: $75,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA WESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW: $68,024 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetConsumer Education and Training Services: $67,500 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetSouth Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program: $65,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetACCESS JUSTICE BROOKLYN INC: $65,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $64,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLegal Services of Eastern Michigan: $62,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMARYLAND VOLUNTEER LAWYERS SERVICE INC: $62,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCONSUMER BANKRUPTCY ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $60,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetLegal Aid Association of California: $57,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetJUST THE BEGINNING - A PIPELINE ORGANIZATION: $56,341 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetLegal Access Alameda: $47,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetNEVADA LEGAL SERVICES INC: $47,480 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC: $42,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES NYC: $42,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID CHICAGO: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDISTRICT 10 PRO BONO PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetEMERGENCY LEGAL RESPONDERS: $40,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetLEGAL ASSISTANCE OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE CONFLICT RESOLUTION CTR: $40,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetAlameda County Bar Association: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION A: $37,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY RIGHTS CENTER: $37,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND: $36,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC: $32,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST LOUISIANA LEGAL SERVICES CORP: $30,675 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFederal Bar Association East District of MI Chapte: $29,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH DAKOTA: $28,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDADE LEGAL AID FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budget
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.

  • Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT OF THE BOSTON BAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PRO BONO PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DC BAR PRO BONO CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC COUNSEL ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE IN ↗
  • Who funds CONEJO FREE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds SHORE LEGAL ACCESS INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL SERVICES VERMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC SERVICE LAW CORPORATION DBA RIVERSIDE LEGAL AID ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County ↗
  • Who funds PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA WESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
  • Who funds Consumer Education and Training Services ↗
  • Who funds South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS JUSTICE BROOKLYN INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds Legal Services of Eastern Michigan ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND VOLUNTEER LAWYERS SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY ASSISTANCE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Legal Aid Association of California ↗
  • Who funds JUST THE BEGINNING - A PIPELINE ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds Legal Access Alameda ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL SERVICES NYC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds DISTRICT 10 PRO BONO PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY LEGAL RESPONDERS ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE CONFLICT RESOLUTION CTR ↗
  • Who funds Alameda County Bar Association ↗
  • Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION A ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY RIGHTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗

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.

Legal Services CorporationDC105.2× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Legal Services Corporation · Equal Justice Works · The Skadden Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · AARP Foundation · National Legal Aid and Defender Association · The New York Bar Foundation · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · Littler Mendelson Foundation Inc Attn Tax Manager · West Tennessee Legal Services INC · Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Vermont Legal Aid Inc: 72% of income from government
  • Veterans Legal Services Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Legal Aid Services of Oregon: 10% of income from government
  • Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in: 9% of income from government
  • Shore Legal Access Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Community Legal Aid Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Maryland Legal Services Corporation: 4% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Northeast New Jersey Legal Services Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Legal Services Corp of Delaware: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 136 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on American College of Bankruptcy’s filings →

More from the funding graph