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Texans for Lawsuit Reform

See Schedule OTLR works to shape policy primarily in the Texas civil justice and court system through public education, legislative advocacy and building broad public support for a fair, competent and honest judiciary as well as a fair, balanced and predictable dispute resolution system.

$481k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$438kEnvironment$250kCommunity Improvement$227kCrime & Legal$100kEducation$50kArts & Culture$40kEmployment$35kHuman Services$33k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $423,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $480,765 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $57,265 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $174k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Coalition for Regulatory Efficiency & Reform$250,000
Lone Star Economic Alliance$35,000
Texas Conservative Coalition$21,000
Texas Tribune Inc$20,000
Texas House Republican Caucus$20,000
Texas State History Museum Foundation$15,000
Texas Southern University Foundation$15,000
Texas Business Leadership Council$15,000
Texas Young Republican Federation$12,500
University of Texas$10,000
Texas Senate Republican Caucus$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 36% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Texas Young Republican Federation: $13k → 9%Unbound Now Houston: $8k → 10%Citizens for Judicial Excellence in TX: $25k → 10%Texas Southern University Foundation: $25k → 16%Rio Grande Valley Chamber of Commerce Inc: $20k → 27%Texas Young Republican Federation: $8k → 9%University of Texas: $10k → 10%Texas Southern University Foundation: $15k → 16%RGV Partnership: $10k → 27%TX Citz Agnst Lawsuit Abuse: $68k → 10%Coalition for Regulatory Efficiency & Reform: $250k → 16%Texas Association of Business: $47k → 10%Texas Business Hall of Fame: $20k → 16%Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute: $40k → 10%Lone Star Economic Alliance: $35k → 10%Ross Communications: $30k → 10%2023 Texas Inagural: $25k → 10%Texas Inaugural Committee: $25k → 10%Texas Tribune Inc: $20k → 10%Texas State History Museum Foundation: $15k → 10%Texas Business Leadership Council: $15k → 10%Republican Party of Texas: $15k → 10%Texas Business Leadership Council: $15k → 10%Texas Business Leadership Council: $13k → 10%Texas Association of Business: $12k → 10%Texas House Republican Caucus: $10k → 10%TX Business Leadership Counci: $10k → 10%Texas Senate Republican Caucus: $10k → 10%Texas Association of Business: $10k → 10%Texas House Republican Caucus: $10k → 10%Texas Business Leadership: $10k → 10%Republican Party of Texas: $10k → 10%Texas Assoc of Realtors: $10k → 10%Republican Party of Texas: $10k → 10%Texas Business Leadership Cou: $10k → 10%Texas Republican Cty Chairman: $10k → 10%Texas Business Leadership Council: $10k → 10%Texas Business Leadership Cou: $10k → 10%Texas Public Policy Fdn: $10k → 10%Texas Association of Business: $7k → 10%Texas Cultural Trust Council: $25k → 10%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$554k · 7 repeat orgs$619k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$554k
$279k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+16%

Still filing today

71%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $340k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute
    8× · 2017–2024 · $202k · revenue +101%
  • TB
    TEXAS BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +74%
  • RG
    RIO GRANDE VALLEY PARTNERSHIP
    2× · 2018–2022 · $30k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • TC
    TEXAS CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE IN
    one grant, 2017 · $68k · revenue -93% · 97% of their budget
  • RC
    Ross Communications
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • TI
    Texas Inaugural Committee
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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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Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Texas Clean Energy Coalition
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3
Texas Blockchain Council

The texas blockchain council is a nonprofit industry association made up of companies and individuals that work in a variety of industries that are connected to bitcoin, crypto and blockchain technology. we are working together tomake the…

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4
Texans for Texas

To advance and sustain interests in the state of Texas with an emphasis on increasing transparency and improving transparency in education within Texas.

Employment
5
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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6
Texas Venture Capital Association Inc

To represent venture capital firms before texas legislature, state securities board and regulatory agencies and to provide a forum to exchange ideas, concepts and information.

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7
Texas Chamber of Commerce Executives

To enhance the professional growth of chamber professionals.

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8
Jobs for Texas

Jobs for Texas (JFT) brings together all sectors of the Texas business and economic development community under one umbrella to undertake legislative initiatives that require a coordinated statewide effort. Unlike other industry, trade,…

Community Improvement
9
Texas Restaurant Association - Dallas Chapter

Promote the restaurant industry

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10
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
11
Tex-E Inc
Education
12
Texans for Lawsuit Reform

See Schedule OTLR works to shape policy primarily in the Texas civil justice and court system through public education, legislative advocacy and building broad public support for a fair, competent and honest judiciary as well as a fair,…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Rio Grande Valley Partnership. 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

15 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. 15 of the 27 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COALITION FOR REGULATORY EFFICIENCY AND REFORM: $250,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR REGULATORY EFFICIENCY AND REFORMTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS: $109,858 · OtherTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESSTEXAS BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $92,500 · OtherTEXAS BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCILTEXAS CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE IN: $68,300 · OtherTEXAS CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE INTexas House Republican Caucus: $60,000 · OtherTexas House Republican CaucusRIO GRANDE VALLEY PARTNERSHIP: $30,000 · OtherRoss Communications: $30,000 · Other+12 more: $165,218 · Other+12 moreTexas Conservative Coalition Research Institute: $201,500 · Arts & CultureTexas Conservative …TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $40,000 · EducationTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $20,000 · EducationKeep Texas Trucking Coalition dba Lone Star Economic Alliance: $35,000 · Community ImprovementTexas Business Hall of Fame Foundation: $20,000 · Community ImprovementTexas Cultural Trust Council: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Other$805,876Arts & Culture$201,500Education$60,000Community Improvement$55,000Philanthropy$40,000Public Benefit$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOALITION FOR REGULATORY EFFICIENCY AND REFORM: $250,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetTexas Conservative Coalition Research Institute: $201,500 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS: $109,858 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTEXAS BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $92,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetTEXAS CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE IN: $68,300 over 1y, 97% of budgetTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKeep Texas Trucking Coalition dba Lone Star Economic Alliance: $35,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetRIO GRANDE VALLEY PARTNERSHIP: $30,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTexas Cultural Trust Council: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Business Hall of Fame Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAY AREA CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE: $6,500 over 1y, 5.7% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Houston Commu…Pharmaceutical Resear…Fidelity Investments …
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX16.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Texans for Lawsuit Reform funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Texans for Lawsuit Reform. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%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 · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Texans for Lawsuit Reform?

    Find your warmest path to Texans for Lawsuit Reform 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.

    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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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