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IOWA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE

IOWA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $127,440 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE ($127,440). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.0M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$127k
Net assets
$325k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Iowa Association for Justice does

Mission

Empowering trial lawyers to champion the rights of the people and safeguard justice

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The association undertakes strategic public relations, communications and media advocacy enterprises to edcuate the public about, and build public appreciation for, iowas justice systems; and to help iowans understand the importance and relevance of fair and impartial courts for all.

  2. Planning and organization of annual convention for members, providing opportunities for networking with peers and educational seminars. Other educational programs and seminars are sponsored by the association throughout the year providing opportunities for members to obtain continuing legal education..

  3. The association provides advocacy for its members by actively lobbying members of the iowa general assembly during each annual legislative session. The association opposes legislation that would limit liability or wrongdoers, works to extend rights to iowans who are denied appropriate access to our justice systems, and advocates the removal of litigation barriers that unduly burden iowans who are pursuing justice in the courts.

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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 ($959k) Expenses 100 ($956k) Net assets 100 ($203k)2018 Revenue 72 ($689k) Expenses 74 ($710k) Net assets 85 ($173k)2019 Revenue 80 ($770k) Expenses 82 ($787k) Net assets 79 ($160k)2020 Revenue 105 ($1.0M) Expenses 101 ($967k) Net assets 98 ($199k)2021 Revenue 101 ($967k) Expenses 101 ($962k) Net assets 105 ($212k)2022 Revenue 111 ($1.1M) Expenses 108 ($1.0M) Net assets 121 ($246k)2023 Revenue 126 ($1.2M) Expenses 119 ($1.1M) Net assets 154 ($313k)2024 Revenue 104 ($1.0M) Expenses 103 ($989k) Net assets 160 ($325k)
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Revenue (104)Expenses (103)Net assets (160)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $303k to $376k (+24%).

$255k
$220k
$214k
$259k
$303k
$376k
$419k
$418k
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’17
−$21k
’18
−$16k
’19
$41k
’20
$5k
’21
$30k
’22
$67k
’23
$12k
’24
1.9
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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Listed4146414242494444
Joined·+5+5+4+2+13+11+5
No longer listed·010326165
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $14k.

Funder
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'22
'23
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total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $100k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Iowa Civil Justice Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money IOWA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE raised.

From the IRS filings of IOWA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE’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

IOWA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 1 state in all.

DC

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

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Iowa 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

Organizations like IOWA ASSOCIATION 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 Iowa

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

43
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Iowa Civil Justice Foundation · exempt
  • Justice for All PAC · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds IOWA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE?
IOWA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $127,440 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE ($127,440). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does IOWA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $127,440 in grants to IOWA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of IOWA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE?
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE is the largest funder on record, with $127,440 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IOWA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing