Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
LEXISNEXIS RULE OF LAW FOUNDATION
LEXISNEXIS RULE OF LAW FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,339 to it, the largest being CHI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $425k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $625k
What Lexisnexis Rule of Law Foundation does
Mission
The purpose of this foundation is to increase the public'sunderstanding of the rule of law both in the us and throughout the world by providing educational tools and materials, facilitating access to research tools for educational purposes, providing hands on educational instruction, developing nonpartisan analysis, improving access to laws and court records relating to property rights, and supporting advancement of the rule of law.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, the foundation held launch events with ethiopia government officials in addis ababa and london for ethiopia tax transparency project; the voting rights tool qualified as a finalist in the world justice project challenge; regulations in uganda on the first law preventing human sacrifice were written; announced the collaboration with world bank to take over the african mining legislative atlas developed and run by world bank for ten years; finished developing the uganda judgment writing tool and working to add content to it; partnered with the international bar association on their publication of studies in six countries analyzing the role of women in the legal profession (brazil, nepal, mexico, ukraine, the republic of korea; turkey); supported training and a fellowship program with the international association of women judges in south africa; our partner legal team which received translation help from the foundation received a favorable judgment in spanish court ruling in a precedentially significant way for a young human trafficking victim; with the aba international section, provided support for legal research training for afghani women refugee lawyers.
$303,325 spentof which $98,985 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $303,325.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $607 to $1.1M (+183161%).
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.
100% of LEXISNEXIS RULE OF LAW FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $118.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 LEXISNEXIS RULE OF LAW FOUNDATION’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
LEXISNEXIS RULE OF LAW FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
LEXISNEXIS RULE OF LAW FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $339 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
LEXISNEXIS RULE OF LAW FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding LEXISNEXIS RULE OF LAW FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17k on record.
- Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency$17k
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 LEXISNEXIS RULE OF LAW FOUNDATION
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Relx Inc · corp_trust
- Lexis Nexis · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEXISNEXIS RULE OF LAW FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LEXISNEXIS RULE OF LAW FOUNDATION?
- LEXISNEXIS RULE OF LAW FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,339 to it, the largest being CHI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEXISNEXIS RULE OF LAW FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,339 in grants to LEXISNEXIS RULE OF LAW FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEXISNEXIS RULE OF LAW FOUNDATION?
- CHI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEXISNEXIS RULE OF LAW FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 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