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BAY AREA CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE

BAY AREA CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,500 to it, the largest being CONTRACTORS SAFETY COUNCIL OF THE COASTAL BEND ($22,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$641
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$29k
Net assets
$29k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Bay Area Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse does

Mission

Promote common business interests and better conditions in the corpus christi area by effecting change in the publics attitude toward liability litigation to end lawsuit abuse

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Change attitudes towards litigation

    $17,032 spent$31,143 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,032.

02The 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 ($118k) Expenses 100 ($120k) Net assets 100 ($94k)2018 Revenue 88 ($104k) Expenses 120 ($144k) Net assets 56 ($52k)2019 Revenue 97 ($115k) Expenses 107 ($129k) Net assets 38 ($36k)2020 Revenue 32 ($38k) Expenses 28 ($33k) Net assets 44 ($41k)2021 Revenue 52 ($61k) Expenses 62 ($75k) Net assets 29 ($28k)2022 Revenue 81 ($96k) Expenses 86 ($104k) Net assets 21 ($20k)2023 Revenue 26 ($31k) Expenses 14 ($17k) Net assets 36 ($34k)2024 Revenue 1 ($641) Expenses 4 ($5k) Net assets 31 ($29k)
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Revenue (1)Expenses (4)Net assets (31)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $94k to $52k (−44%).

$94k
$52k
$36k
$41k
$28k
$20k
$34k
$29k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
−$40k
’18
−$14k
’19
$5k
’20
−$13k
’21
−$8k
’22
$14k
’23
−$4k
’24
74
months of
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.

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Listed24333337
Joined··+0+2+0+0+2+4
No longer listed··120020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $5k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
total
funders
1
1
2
1

From the IRS filings of BAY AREA CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE’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

BAY AREA CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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

100% 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 BAY AREA CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE.

77%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 57% · 2020 100% — 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

100% of BAY AREA CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
Texas out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BAY AREA CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE: 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 BAY AREA CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE?
BAY AREA CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,500 to it, the largest being CONTRACTORS SAFETY COUNCIL OF THE COASTAL BEND ($22,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BAY AREA CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $28,500 in grants to BAY AREA CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BAY AREA CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE?
CONTRACTORS SAFETY COUNCIL OF THE COASTAL BEND is the largest funder on record, with $22,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BAY AREA CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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