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FOUNDATION II OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS INC

FOUNDATION II OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,894 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($91,200). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$203k
Net assets
$8.1M
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Inc does

Mission

The foundation was formed exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific, literary, and cultural purposes, including programs of research and education to improve the administration of justice, the special field of trial practice, and the delivery and quality of legal services to the people of the united states and canada and to study and enhance the professionalism and the ethics of the practice of law.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation was formed exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific, literary, and cultural purposes, including programs of research and education to improve the administration of justice, the special field of trial practice, and the delivery and quality of legal services to the people of the united states and canada and to study and enhance the professionalism and the ethics of the practice of law.

    $805,048 spentof which $801,321 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $805,048.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($594k) Expenses 100 ($375k) Net assets 100 ($5.4M)2018 Revenue 386 ($2.3M) Expenses 156 ($585k) Net assets 105 ($5.6M)2019 Revenue 109 ($645k) Expenses 140 ($526k) Net assets 108 ($5.8M)2020 Revenue 82 ($485k) Expenses 182 ($684k) Net assets 109 ($5.8M)2021 Revenue 100 ($596k) Expenses 159 ($598k) Net assets 135 ($7.3M)2022 Revenue 90 ($532k) Expenses 208 ($782k) Net assets 115 ($6.2M)2023 Revenue 107 ($637k) Expenses 169 ($635k) Net assets 127 ($6.8M)2024 Revenue 102 ($604k) Expenses 224 ($840k) Net assets 144 ($7.7M)2025 Revenue 185 ($1.1M) Expenses 240 ($901k) Net assets 152 ($8.1M)
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Revenue (185)Expenses (240)Net assets (152)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $5.8M to $7.3M (+24%).

$5.4M
$5.6M
$5.8M
$5.8M
$7.3M
$6.2M
$6.8M
$7.7M
$8.1M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

33% of FOUNDATION II OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,392 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$219k
’17
$1.7M
’18
$120k
’19
−$199k
’20
−$2k
’21
−$249k
’22
$1k
’23
−$235k
’24
$196k
’25
6.4
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.

Chief executive

Dennis Maggi

Actl executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed141415131414131415
Joined·+2+1+2+2+2+3+5+1
No longer listed·20412440
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $32k.

8 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of FOUNDATION II OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS 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

FOUNDATION II OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

98% 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 FOUNDATION II OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS INC.

45%
largest funder
82%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 69% · 2019 123% · 2020 49% · 2021 88% · 2022 53% · 2023 62% — 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.

How long its funders stay

43% of FOUNDATION II OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

98% of FOUNDATION II OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.

NY
MA
PA

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

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’18
’20
’21
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $198k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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

Against its field

FOUNDATION II OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like FOUNDATION II OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS INC

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 7%Fundraising 4%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

76%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • American College of Trial Lawyers · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds FOUNDATION II OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS INC?
FOUNDATION II OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,894 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($91,200). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FOUNDATION II OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $202,894 in grants to FOUNDATION II OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION II OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $91,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOUNDATION II OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 11 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