Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Equal Justice Works, The Sidley Austin Foundation, Vital Projects Fund Inc.

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California · Public charity

Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Inc

The foundation was formed exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific, literary, and cultural purposes, including programs of research and education to improve the administration of justice, the special field of trial practice, and the delivery and quality of legal services to the people of the united states and canada and to…

$801k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 13
Itemized grants FY2025: 11
Organizations funded FY2024: 64%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $779k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $150,000
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 16; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 9
Total assets, FY2025: $8.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 64% of the organizations Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $461k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	13	$779k	77%
FY2024	11	$741k	64%
FY2023	10	$556k	40%
FY2022	13	$691k	85%
FY2021	9	$501k	56%
FY2020	16	$519k	81%
FY2019	7	$278k	57%
FY2018	11	$430k	73%

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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 2025.

Crime & Legal$4.0MEducation$446kHuman Services$150kArts & Culture$88kHealth$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$38kPublic Benefit$10kInternational$8kOther$0

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
Just the Beginning - a Pipeline Organization	$300,000	4	12%
National Criminal Defense College Inc	$265,000	9	6%
Innocence Project New Orleans	$150,000	1	6%
The Mediation Center of the Pacific Inc	$150,000	1	10%
The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth	$150,000	3	3%
One Vet A Time Inc PROJECT OVAT	$150,000	2	10%
Illinois Prison Project	$150,000	1	4%
Redemption Earned Inc	$150,000	2	34%
Georgia Justice Project Inc	$125,000	2	3%
University of Denver	$120,000	3	0%

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All grantees of Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Just the Beginning - a Pipeline Organization	$300,000	4	12%
National Criminal Defense College Inc	$265,000	9	6%
Innocence Project New Orleans	$150,000	1	6%
The Mediation Center of the Pacific Inc	$150,000	1	10%
The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth	$150,000	3	3%
One Vet A Time Inc PROJECT OVAT	$150,000	2	10%
Illinois Prison Project	$150,000	1	4%
Redemption Earned Inc	$150,000	2	34%
Georgia Justice Project Inc	$125,000	2	3%
University of Denver	$120,000	3	0%
James D Stclair Court Public Education Project Inc	$115,000	3	5%
Second Look Project	$100,000	1	13%
Fordham University	$100,000	1	0%
Community Legal Services Inc	$100,000	2	0%
Immigrant Legal Resource Center	$100,000	1	0%
Public Justice Center Inc	$100,000	2	2%
Tzedek DC Inc	$100,000	2	5%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	$100,000	1	0%
Arizona Justice Project	$100,000	1	11%
Curators of the University of Missouri Special Tr	$88,240	1	n/a
Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County	$75,000	1	n/a
Legal Aid Society of Hawaii	$75,000	1	1%
Center for Death Penalty Litigation	$75,000	1	3%
The Decarceration Collective	$75,000	1	42%
The Georgia Appellate Practice & Educational Resource Center Inc	$75,000	1	4%
Public Counsel	$75,000	1	0%
National Network to End Domestic Violence Inc	$70,000	1	1%
National District Attorneys Association	$70,000	4	1%
American Immigration Council	$70,000	1	0%
Immigrant Justice Corps Inc	$60,000	1	1%
The University of Cincinnati Foundation	$60,000	2	0%
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York	$53,125	1	0%
Suzerain	$50,000	1	21%
Homeless Advocacy Project	$50,000	1	2%
University of Colorado Foundation	$50,000	1	0%
Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program Inc	$50,000	1	6%
Legal Services Clinic of the Puerto Rican Community Inc	$50,000	1	12%
Step Up To Justice	$50,000	1	12%
The Pennsylvania Innocence Project	$50,000	1	3%
Ohio Legal Help	$50,000	1	5%
School Justice Project Inc	$50,000	1	5%
Emory University	$50,000	1	0%
Instituto de Educacion Practica del Colegio de Abogados de Puerto Rico	$50,000	1	n/a
The Innocence Project Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Foundation	$50,000	1	15%
Atlantic Center for Capital Representation Inc	$50,000	1	9%
Volunteer Legal Advocates	$50,000	1	1%
Houston Bar Association	$50,000	1	2%
Cook County Health Chicago	$32,300	1	n/a
Louisiana Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc	$30,000	1	5%
Lawyers Honoring Covid-19	$25,000	1	23%
Brooklyn Defender Services	$25,000	1	0%
The Legal Aid Society of Columbus	$25,000	1	0%
Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation In	$25,000	1	n/a
Equal Justice Initiative	$25,000	1	0%
Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corp	$20,000	1	0%
Southern University-Baton Rouge	$11,000	2	n/a
Institute for Americas Future Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Dillard University	$10,000	1	0%
International Rule of Law Project Inc	$7,500	1	100%
The University of Montana	$6,400	1	n/a
The University of Montana Foundation	$6,000	1	0%
Southern Univerty System	$5,500	1	0%
University of Wyoming Foundation	$2,500	1	0%
Starnes Davis Florie LLP	$2,000	1	n/a
Missouri Coalition for the Right to Counsel Inc	$2,000	1	n/a
Welsh & Recker PC	$2,000	1	n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($150k), not named here.

Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 57.

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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.

Equal Justice WorksDC31.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Equal Justice Works · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Vital Projects Fund Inc · American College of Bankruptcy Foundation · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Littler Mendelson Foundation Inc Attn Tax Manager · The Kresge Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Nfl Foundation Inc

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 Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Inc

How much does Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Inc give?: Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Inc reported 13 itemized grants totaling $779,240, out of $801,321 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (83%), Education (9%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Just the Beginning - a Pipeline Organization ($300k), National Criminal Defense College Inc ($265k), Innocence Project New Orleans ($150k).
Does Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Equal Justice Works, The Sidley Austin Foundation, Vital Projects Fund Inc.
Where is Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Inc based?: Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Inc is based in CA.