Virginia · Nonprofit
CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE INC
CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,790,276 to it, the largest being AMERICAN TORT REFORM ASSOCIATION ($1,790,276). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $106k
What Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse Inc does
Mission
CALA advocates for commonsense legal reform measures by educating the public about the devastating, real-world costs of lawsuit abuse on working families and small businesses.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
1.Throughout the tax year, CALA operated in the states of California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Texas, and West Virginia. CALAs Executive Directors for the operations in each of these states engaged in legislative advocacy to support or oppose key bills and policy outcomes that would have an impact on the civil justice landscape in respective state. This engagement varied from digital petitions, letters to lawmakers, and testimony at legislative hearings. 2.In those same states, CALA also hosted various events with small business owners and lawmakers throughout the state to encourage continued conversations about the impact of lawsuit abuse in local communities. CALA worked to amplify the stories of these small
$1,644,225 spentof which $15,000 as grants100% of program spendingbusinessowners, many of whom face onerous legal battles over meritless claims threatening their livelihood. CALA also hosted press conferences in some of its target states to highlight the impact of lawsuit abuse on the local economy. 3.A large focus of the CALA program was educating the public on the localized impact of lawsuit abuse via reports, such as the Economic Impact Report that CALA releases annually. This report serves as an important tool to socialize and highlight the broad impact of lawsuit abuse with the public as well as lawmakers. 4.Throughout the course of the year, CALA also generated over 406 pieces of earned media content in local outlets throughout the states
of California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Texas, and West Virginia.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,644,225.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $3k to $106k (+3607%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE 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.
Where its funders are
CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
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.
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE 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 CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE INC?
- CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,790,276 to it, the largest being AMERICAN TORT REFORM ASSOCIATION ($1,790,276). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,790,276 in grants to CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE INC?
- AMERICAN TORT REFORM ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,790,276 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIZENS AGAINST LAWSUIT ABUSE INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing