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Justice Frank F Drowota Trust

Provide funding for legal services for low income families

$30k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,417
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,608
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$492k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2025 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands$10,6081n/a
Legal Aid of East Tennessee$8,9751n/a
West Tennessee Legal Services INC$7,41710%
Tennessee Justice Center Inc$1,5001n/a
Community Legal Center$1,50010%

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.

Tennessee Bar Foundat…Equal Justice WorksAmazonsmile Foundation
Tennessee Bar FoundationTN15.8× affinity5 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 Justice Frank F Drowota Trust

How much does Justice Frank F Drowota Trust give?
Justice Frank F Drowota Trust reported 5 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Justice Frank F Drowota Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2025 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (100%).
Who are Justice Frank F Drowota Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2025 to FY2025: Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands ($11k), Legal Aid of East Tennessee ($9k), West Tennessee Legal Services INC ($7k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Justice Frank F Drowota Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tennessee Bar Foundation, Equal Justice Works, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Justice Frank F Drowota Trust based?
Justice Frank F Drowota Trust is based in TN.

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 5 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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