Virginia · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE (Virginia) receives grants from 387 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,216,451 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($22,190,665). 285 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $55M
- Funders on record
- 387
- Grants received
- $153M
- Net assets
- $140M
What Institute for Justice does
Mission
Through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research, the Institute for Justice (ij) advances a rule of law under which individuals can control their destinies as free and responsible members of society. Ij litigates to secure economic liberty, educational choice, private property rights, freedom of speech and other vital individual liberties, and to restore constitutional limits on the power of government. In addition, ij trains law students, lawyers, and policy activists in the tactics of public interest litigation. Through these activities, ij challenges the ideology of the welfare state and illustrates and extends the benefits of freedom to those whose full enjoyment of liberty is denied by government.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To protect the constitutional rights of americans through litigation, to educate the public about issues vital to liberty through media, activism, and outreach, to apply social science and policy research methods to those issues that the organization litigates, and to train lawyers and law students.
$38,695,371 spentof which $103,566 as grants$1,637,543 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $38,695,371.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $118M to $145M (+22%).
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.
83% of INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Jim Lintott
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 105 funders to 194 funders, grant income rose $7.6M → $32M.
50 of 387 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 387 funders by total. 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
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
48% 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 INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 32% · 2019 14% · 2020 17% · 2021 17% · 2022 17% · 2023 17% — 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
60% of INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.
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
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 44 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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.
Against its field
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 63 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 63 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- LIABITY EXPENDITURE-ATTORNEY SETTLEMENT$250k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: 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 INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE?
- INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE (Virginia) receives grants from 387 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,216,451 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($22,190,665). 285 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 387 organizations giving $153,216,451 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE, 285 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $22,190,665 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 387 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