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AMERICAN TORT REFORM ASSOCIATION

AMERICAN TORT REFORM ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,458,821 to it, the largest being The Civil Justice Reform Group ($9,884,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$5.5M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$10M
Net assets
$1.9M
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.5M) Expenses 100 ($4.9M) Net assets 100 ($585k)2018 Revenue 110 ($4.9M) Expenses 89 ($4.3M) Net assets 199 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 120 ($5.4M) Expenses 104 ($5.1M) Net assets 251 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 106 ($4.8M) Expenses 93 ($4.6M) Net assets 286 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 103 ($4.6M) Expenses 87 ($4.2M) Net assets 351 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 111 ($5.0M) Expenses 108 ($5.3M) Net assets 297 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 106 ($4.8M) Expenses 106 ($5.2M) Net assets 227 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 123 ($5.5M) Expenses 101 ($4.9M) Net assets 327 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (123)Expenses (101)Net assets (327)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$391k
’17
$580k
’18
$305k
’19
$200k
’20
$382k
’21
−$316k
’22
−$405k
’23
$593k
’24
4.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $1.0M.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN TORT REFORM ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

AMERICAN TORT REFORM ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 97% · 2020 89% · 2021 93% · 2022 89% · 2023 93% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

AMERICAN TORT REFORM ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.

IL
VA
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Organizations like AMERICAN TORT REFORM ASSOCIATION

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In Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

30
board members
97%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • American Tort Reform Foundation · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN TORT REFORM ASSOCIATION: 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 TORT REFORM ASSOCIATION?
AMERICAN TORT REFORM ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,458,821 to it, the largest being The Civil Justice Reform Group ($9,884,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN TORT REFORM ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $10,458,821 in grants to AMERICAN TORT REFORM ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN TORT REFORM ASSOCIATION?
The Civil Justice Reform Group is the largest funder on record, with $9,884,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN TORT REFORM ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing