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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…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $779,240 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $801,321 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,081 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $713k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT | $150,000 |
| THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI | $88,240 |
| PUBLIC COUNSEL | $75,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY | $75,000 |
| GEORGIA RESOURCE CENTER | $75,000 |
| JUST THE BEGINNING | $50,000 |
| PROJECT ONE VET AT A TIME | $50,000 |
| DC VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SUZERAIN CAPITAL DEFENSE | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL CRIMINAL DEFENSE COLLEGE | $35,000 |
| ATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $380k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $644k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NCNATIONAL CRIMINAL DEFENSE COLLEGE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +58%
- REREDEMPTION EARNED INC2× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +210% · 34% of their budget
- TCTHE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH3× · 2017–2021 · $150k · revenue +184%
Funded once
- TMTHE MEDIATION CENTER OF THE PACIFIC INCone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue -19%
- IPINNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANSone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +4%
- 2G2022 GUMPERT AWARDone grant, 2022 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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.
Oad strives to ensure that poor people convicted of felonies receive full and equal access to justice by providing exceptional appellate representation, improving the quality of indigent defense representation through education & training,…
The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…
Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.
The promise of justice initiative works to create positive change for people in the criminal legal system at the intersection of impact litigation, direct services and community engagement.
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.
The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center provides free legal services through pro bono lawyers to low-income individuals, nonprofit organizations and small businesses primarily in the District of Columbia. The Pro Bono Center also recruits and trains…
The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.
Afl-cio union lawyers alliance was established to better the conditions of working men and women and their families by enhancing the quality of legal representation that is available to the afl-cio and the national and international unions…
To provide legal assistance to people living in poverty in order to promote social welfare.
The purpose is to exonerate the wrongly convicted, uncover and remedy past misuse of evidence in the courtroom, and improve the dialogue among stakeholders in the criminal legal system to prevent future injustice.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immigrant Justice Corps Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rule of Law Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 70 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JUST THE BEGINNING - A PIPELINE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CRIMINAL DEFENSE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDIATION CENTER OF THE PACIFIC INC ↗
- Who funds One Vet A Time Inc PROJECT OVAT ↗
- Who funds INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds REDEMPTION EARNED INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds JAMES D STCLAIR COURT PUBLIC EDUCATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND LOOK PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TZEDEK DC INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA JUSTICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGIA APPELLATE PRACTICE & EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County ↗
- Who funds The Decarceration Collective ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEATH PENALTY LITIGATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC COUNSEL ↗
- Who funds National District Attorneys Association ↗
- Who funds National Network to End Domestic Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds Step Up To Justice ↗
- Who funds Legal Services Clinic of the Puerto Rican Community Inc ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Public Justice Center Inc — 5% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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