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The American Association for Justice Robert L Habush Endowment
See schedule othe endowment serves as a grant-making mission to:1) provide consistent public education and research to promote informed public dialogue on, understanding of and appreciation for the civil justice system;2) sponsor prestigious education programs and well-received publications for judges and law professors; and 3) fund…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE ROBERT L HABUSH ENDOWMENT’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $594,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $868,058 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $273,558 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
- $10k–50k6 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $437k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL CIVIL JUSTICE INSTITUTE | $206,000 |
| CENTER FOR JUSTICE & DEMOCRACY | $168,000 |
| REBUTTALPR LLC | $62,500 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION | $45,000 |
| CIVIL JUSTICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $33,000 |
| ALLIANCE TO COUNTER CRIME ONLINE | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO LAW SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CHILD USA | $15,000 |
| COUNCIL OF CHIEF JUDGES OF THE STATE COURT OF APPEAL | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +16% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $268k 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 CIVIL JUSTICE INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +11% · 49% of their budget
- SMSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +270%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2025 · $251k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- PGPANORAMA GLOBALgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $90k · revenue +50%
Cornell Universitygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +27%- CRCHANGE RESEARCHone grant, 2024 · $53k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Justice and Democracy and the most unlike its peers is Yeshiva University. 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 35 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 NATIONAL CIVIL JUSTICE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PROGRESSIVE REFORM INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
- Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EARL CARL INSTITUTE FOR LEGAL AND SOCIAL POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WATCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON JURY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO COUNTER CRIME ONLINE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF CHIEF JUDGES OF THE STATE COURTS OF APPEAL ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The American Association for Justice Robert L Habush Endowment 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.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% 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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