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AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE
AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,589 to it, the largest being NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BANKRUPTCY JUDGES ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $18M
What American Bankruptcy Institute does
Mission
The American Bankruptcy Institute is the nation's largest association of bankruptcy professionals, made up of over 10,000 members in multi-disciplinary roles, including attorneys, auctioneers, bankers, judges, lenders, professors, (see schedule o) turnaround specialists, accountants and others. Abi is committed to serving our members with high-quality conferences, comprehensive continuing education, effective legal research, and dynamic networking opportunities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Conferences and meetings: abi holds two national membership meetings and many regional conferences throughout the year. These meetings offer a concentrated opportunity for the exchange of ideas, discussions of findings among colleagues, and continuing legal education.
$5,681,956 spent$6,380,802 earned by the program71% of program spendingPublications and other sales: abi produces various publications and journals that represent its commitment to the ongoing enhancement of quality education on insolvency topics. Additionally, abi maintains a comprehensive internet site covering insolvency issues and providing instant updates on legislation, new filings, supreme court cases, bankruptcy filing statistics, and daily bankruptcy news.
$1,629,505 spent$706,882 earned by the program20% of program spendingMembership services: abi provides ongoing services to its members in order to provide a broad, in-depth resource of insolvency issues and related services.
$671,016 spent$3,167,091 earned by the program8% of program spendingResearch projects and grants: abi provides funding and scholarships to enhance bankruptcy research and education.
$32,628 spentof which $21,000 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,015,105.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $21M to $24M (+13%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 14% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Amy A Quackenboss
Executive director
Board chair
Robert P Reynolds
Chair, then dir. (trans. @ 4/2024)
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $4k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
69% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE is better cushioned than half of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$1k
- FEDERAL$300
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 24 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE?
- AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,589 to it, the largest being NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BANKRUPTCY JUDGES ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $43,589 in grants to AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE?
- NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BANKRUPTCY JUDGES is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing