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Lawyers for Civil Justice

Lawyers for Civil Justice (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,375,000 to it, the largest being The Civil Justice Reform Group ($2,375,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.2M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
$1.3M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01The 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 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 113 ($1.4M) Expenses 114 ($1.3M) Net assets 110 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 128 ($1.6M) Expenses 124 ($1.4M) Net assets 137 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 95 ($1.2M) Expenses 116 ($1.3M) Net assets 133 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 121 ($1.5M) Expenses 140 ($1.6M) Net assets 136 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 133 ($1.7M) Expenses 158 ($1.8M) Net assets 115 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 141 ($1.8M) Expenses 177 ($2.0M) Net assets 107 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 174 ($2.2M) Expenses 192 ($2.1M) Net assets 114 ($1.3M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (174)Expenses (192)Net assets (114)

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: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$147k
’17
$159k
’18
$235k
’19
−$99k
’20
−$39k
’21
−$77k
’22
−$191k
’23
$50k
’24
1.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $200k → $265k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Lawyers for Civil Justice’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of Lawyers for Civil Justice's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

VA

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

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In Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Governance

27
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds Lawyers for Civil Justice?
Lawyers for Civil Justice (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,375,000 to it, the largest being The Civil Justice Reform Group ($2,375,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Lawyers for Civil Justice have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,375,000 in grants to Lawyers for Civil Justice, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lawyers for Civil Justice?
The Civil Justice Reform Group is the largest funder on record, with $2,375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lawyers for Civil 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 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing