Texas · Nonprofit
Denton County Lawyers Foundation
Denton County Lawyers Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,000 to it, the largest being Denton County Alternate Dispute Resolution Program Inc ($102,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $284k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $185k
- Net assets
- $299k
What Denton County Lawyers Foundation does
Mission
Denton County Lawyers Foundation is dedicated to the support, promotion, and encouragement of activities that further justice, access to justice and legal education. These activities are planned to include, but are not limited to, publishing a monthly Legal Education Bulletin online for public access; hosting an attorney blog forum for public access; providing a free attorney referral service to the public; furnishing space for a court ordered parent-child visitation center for low income parents who are only allowed supervised access to their children, Continued Legal Education relevant to access to justice, and the assumption of pro bono activities which are currently performed by the Denton County Bar Assocation: an annual Adoption Day (providing pro-bono adoptions for low income foster families); a Veterans Legal Clinic (providing legal advice to low income veterans), and the Pro Se Divorce Clinic (providing legal advice and support to low net worth couples who are divorcing). The
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Assisted the public, specifically children & their foster parents, in receiving adoption grants at the Denton County Courthouse on National Adoption Day. National Adoption Day is the annual, collective, national effort to raise awareness of the more than 10,000 children currently in foster care across the country.
$2,758 spent$11,244 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,758.
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 2022 to 2023, from $391k to $1.4M (+258%).
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.
68% of Denton County Lawyers Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $38k → $133k.
From the IRS filings of Denton County Lawyers 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
Denton County Lawyers Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 Denton County Lawyers Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 77% — 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
92% of Denton County Lawyers Foundation's grant income comes from Texas funders.
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.
Against its field
Denton County Lawyers Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Denton County Lawyers 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- 1504 Foundation-Association LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Denton County Lawyers 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 Denton County Lawyers Foundation?
- Denton County Lawyers Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,000 to it, the largest being Denton County Alternate Dispute Resolution Program Inc ($102,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Denton County Lawyers Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $185,000 in grants to Denton County Lawyers Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Denton County Lawyers Foundation?
- Denton County Alternate Dispute Resolution Program Inc is the largest funder on record, with $102,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Denton County Lawyers Foundation 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.
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. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing