Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $773,775 to it, the largest being AccessLex Institute ($725,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC is better cushioned than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundationshared funders
- Council of Medical Specialty Societiesportfolio match
- Asae Research Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $105k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $171k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Law School Admission Council Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC’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
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — diversifying over time.
“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
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- Council of Medical Specialty Societiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asae Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Visitor Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- College Boardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Council on Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountantsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibilityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Creigh Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- Weil Gotshal & Manges Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC: 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 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC?
- ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $773,775 to it, the largest being AccessLex Institute ($725,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $773,775 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC?
- AccessLex Institute is the largest funder on record, with $725,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing