Virginia · Nonprofit
AMERICAN INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION
AMERICAN INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,254 to it, the largest being CUMMINS-LEVENSTEIN CHARITABLE FOUND ($60,188). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $247k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What American Inns of Court Foundation does
Mission
The american inns of court inspire the legal community to advance the rule of law by achieving the highest level of professionalism through example, education, and mentoring.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Membership programs - the foundation carried out numerous programs designed to assist local inns of court in delivering a high-quality member experience, and to enhance the member experience beyond what occurs at the local level. Such programs included regional leadership summits, innsight leadership newsletter, the bencher bi-monthly magazine, the achieving excellence recognition program, inn advisory services, and the promotion of aic ideals through themed months, including the national conversation on civility.
$1,292,721 spentof which $8,826 as grants$2,339,145 earned by the program67% of program spendingEducation and mentoring - the foundation carried out programs to promote mentoring through local inns of court and generally, such as mentoring month and numerous online resources. The foundation is also developing an online educational platform innovation education to provide high-quality, affordable continuing legal education to underserved parts of the profession.
$242,085 spentof which $873 as grants$12,699 earned by the program12% of program spendingAwareness and recognition building - the foundation continued building awareness of its mission by promoting its ideals through the presentation of the lewis f. Powell, jr. Award for professionalism and ethics, the sandra day o'connor award for professional service, thewarren e. Burger prize, and the aic professionalism awards.
$228,831 spentof which $1,775 as grants$280,675 earned by the program12% of program spendingGrowth strategies - the foundation engaged in activities intended to deepen its impact on the legal profession. This included the promotion of new inns and membership in existing inns, engagement of its alumni members, law schools, and the judiciary, and the presentation of the a. Sherman christensen award. It also included engagement of the profession's future leaders with the pegasus and temple bar scholarships.
$174,355 spentof which $3,526 as grants9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,937,992.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.9M to $3.2M (−17%).
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 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of AMERICAN INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Malinda Dunn
Executive director/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $21k → $37k.
8 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION’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 INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
75% 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 INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% · 2023 48% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of AMERICAN INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of AMERICAN INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $71k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $176k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states 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 INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $247k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION: 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 INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,254 to it, the largest being CUMMINS-LEVENSTEIN CHARITABLE FOUND ($60,188). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $247,254 in grants to AMERICAN INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION?
- CUMMINS-LEVENSTEIN CHARITABLE FOUND is the largest funder on record, with $60,188 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN INNS OF COURT FOUNDATION 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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