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Southern Trial Lawyers Association at a glance

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Southern Trial Lawyers Association

Provide continuing legal education for attorneys

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
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02The needRead
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01What it funds
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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.

Human Services$43kCrime & Legal$40kEducation$30kArts & Culture$20kHealth$20kInternational$15kCommunity Improvement$8k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$371k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$20,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%STODDARD COUNTY CHILDRENS HOME: $20k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

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The Children's Place Inc

Provide mental health services to promote resiliency, wellness and positive developmental outcomes through prevention, treatment, education and family support for children under the age of 9 who have experienced abuse, neglect and other…

Crime & Legal
2
Child Protective Services Community Partners Inc

Community Partners of Dallas is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing what abused children urgently need today to thrive tomorrow by providing resources and support to the caseworkers of Dallas County Child Protective Services.

Human Services
3
Child Protection Team of Palm Beach Inc

To facilitate a coordinated interdisciplinary team approach to diagnosis, consultation and treatment of child abuse and neglect.

Crime & Legal
4
Childs Place

The mission of Childs Place is to listen to children in a safe developmentally sensitive and legally sound manner; to unite professionals in a coordinated response to child abuse; to guide children and families toward healing through…

Human Services
5
World Childhood Foundation Inc

The mission of the foundation is to inspire, promote, and develop solutions to end the sexual abuse and exploitation of children.

Human Services
6
Kidspeace National Centers of Georgia

Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…

Human Services
7
Child Protection Center Inc

To provide forensic interviewsof children alleged to have been abused and to provide support,education, and mental health services to their caretakers.

Crime & Legal
8
Wayne County Protective Agency Inc

The wcpa is an emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence and their minor children.

Human Services
9
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
10
Presbyterian Children's Home of the Highlands Inc

Providing, maintaining and operating a home (including a temporary shelter) for the purpose of protecting, training and educating dependent children.

Human Services
11
Kids Crossing

Kids crossing's vision is to provide a safe and caring home for every child. our mission is to strengthen families so they may provide the best care for those children entrusted to them.

Human Services
12
Children's Trust of South Carolina

To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International; the most unlike its peers is Dekalb Path Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANCLEAVE LIVE OAK CHOCTAW CORPORATION: $20,000 · OtherVANCLEAVE LIVE OAK CHOCTAW …PALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES: $15,000 · OtherPALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN AND…CHURCHES ASSISTING PEOPLE INC: $7,500 · OtherCHURCHES ASSISTING PEOPLE I…THE LAWFARE PROJECT INC: $20,000 · InternationalTHE LAWFARE PROJECT IN…WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 · InternationalWATER MISSIONS INTERNA…DEKALB PATH ACADEMY INC: $20,000 · EducationDEKALB PATH ACADEMY…THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $10,100 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF G…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 · HealthST JUDE CHIL…Child Protect Inc: $20,000 · Crime & LegalChild Protec…STODDARD COUNTY CHILDREN'S HOME: $20,000 · Human ServicesSTODDARD COU…WACCAMAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Community Improvement
Other$42,500International$35,000Education$30,100Health$20,000Crime & Legal$20,000Human Services$20,000Community Improvement$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDEKALB PATH ACADEMY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild Protect Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSTODDARD COUNTY CHILDREN'S HOME: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LAWFARE PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $10,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWACCAMAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Southern Trial Lawyers Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southern Trial Lawyers Association. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 11 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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