Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Law and Society Association
Law and Society Association (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $80,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($80,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Law and Society Association does
Mission
To develop the interdisciplinary field of sociolegal studies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Annual conference: provides a forum for scholars from the usa and around the world to present and discuss their research. Approximately 2300 attended in 2025.
$487,000 spentof which $9,043 as grants$731,458 earned by the program64% of program spendingOther program services include awarding prizes for outstanding achievements in scholarship, mentorship, and service; awarding grants for research and professional development to members; monitoring activities of lsa subgroups called collaborative research networks; and participating in the consortium of social science associations and american council of learned societies.
$106,870 spentof which $71,411 as grants14% of program spendingEducation and workshops: for scholars new to the field, the association organizes annual seminars to discuss research, teaching and publishing, and offers mentorship by senior scholars who volunteer their time. Immediately preceding our annual meeting, we host a junior scholars workshop which brings together early career scholars to share research, network, and discuss professional development issues.
$100,085 spentof which $31,050 as grants$15,459 earned by the program13% of program spendingQuarterly journal: the association publishes a quarterly journal, "law & society review." work by approximately 50 authors was published in the 2024-2025 volume, plus many more books were reviewed and scholars served as peer reviewers.
$66,946 spent$104,561 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $760,901.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.1M to $5.0M (+21%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 22% · 2018 2% · 2019 6% · 2022 9% · 2023 11% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of Law and Society Association’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Law and Society Association’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
100% of Law and Society Association'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Law and Society Association runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Law and Society Association receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $299k on record.
- National Science Foundation$299k
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 Law and Society Association
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Law and Society Association: 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 Law and Society Association?
- Law and Society Association (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $80,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($80,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Law and Society Association have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $80,000 in grants to Law and Society Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Law and Society Association?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Law and Society Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 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