· Public charity
American College of Bankruptcy Foundation
To promote the educational and charitable activities of the american college of bankruptcy.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $686k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VLVOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT OF THE BOSTON BAR ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +36%
- TPTHE PRO BONO PROJECT8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +64%
- LALegal Aid Society of Cincinnati8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- CLCOMMUNITY LEGAL ACCESSone grant, 2023 · $20k
- SLST LOUIS BAR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +26%
- LALEGAL AID OF NEBRASKAone 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.
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.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
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.
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.
To provide free legal assistance in non-criminal matters to persons meeting financial eligibility requirements or having other special needs.
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.
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…
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…
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.
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
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…
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…
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
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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