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Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment

The mission of the organization is to assist and aid disadvantaged or disabled children without regard to ethnicity, race or religion

$50k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$16k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$5,200
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,200
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$379k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’22’23’24
Civil RightsHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$16k100%
FY20242$11k100%
FY20233$15k100%
FY20222$21k100%
FY20191$8k100%
FY20182$7kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$27kCrime & Legal$11kHuman Services$11kRecreation & Sports$10kHousing & Shelter$6kScience & Tech$5kPhilanthropy$5kCivil Rights$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Casa Kane County$10,50010%
La Casa Norte$5,50010%
Almost Home Kids$5,50010%
Homewood Science Center$5,20011%
Keshet$5,20010%
Chicago District Golf Association Foundation$5,2001n/a
Direct Effect Charities$5,00011%
Fox Valley Special Recreation Foundation$5,00013%
Saint Anthony Hospital$5,00010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCasa Kane County: $10,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLa Casa Norte: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlmost Home Kids: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHomewood Science Center: $5,200 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKeshet: $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDirect Effect Charities: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFox Valley Special Recreation Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSaint Anthony Hospital: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 8.

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment?

Find your warmest path to Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment

How much does Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment give?
Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment reported 3 itemized grants totaling $15,600, out of $49,600 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Crime & Legal (14%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Casa Kane County ($11k), La Casa Norte ($6k), Almost Home Kids ($6k).
Does Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment based?
Justinian Society of Lawyers Endowment is based in IL.

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 13 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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