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LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER

LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,638,728 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,829,515). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$6.2M
Funders on record
50
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
$3.4M
29/50 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Liberty Justice Center does

Mission

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication and research. In addition, the center will train law students and lawyers in the pursuit of public interest litigation.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Advancement of economic and social liberties and a free enterprise through strategic litigation, training, communication, and research.see schedule o for a summary listing of cases litigated during the year for the benefit of the public.

    $5,617,074 spent$58,750 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,617,074.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($692k) Expenses 100 ($560k) Net assets 100 ($151k)2018 Revenue 324 ($2.2M) Expenses 253 ($1.4M) Net assets 618 ($935k)2019 Revenue 326 ($2.3M) Expenses 404 ($2.3M) Net assets 614 ($929k)2020 Revenue 333 ($2.3M) Expenses 389 ($2.2M) Net assets 700 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 909 ($6.3M) Expenses 591 ($3.3M) Net assets 2670 ($4.0M)2022 Revenue 337 ($2.3M) Expenses 599 ($3.4M) Net assets 1994 ($3.0M)2023 Revenue 404 ($2.8M) Expenses 483 ($2.7M) Net assets 2057 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 461 ($3.2M) Expenses 567 ($3.2M) Net assets 2067 ($3.1M)2025 Revenue 897 ($6.2M) Expenses 1065 ($6.0M) Net assets 2230 ($3.4M)
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Revenue (897)Expenses (1065)Net assets (2230)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $4.2M (+265%).

$151k
$974k
$989k
$1.2M
$4.2M
$3.2M
$3.3M
$3.2M
$3.9M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,394 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$132k
’17
$831k
’18
−$6k
’19
$129k
’20
$3.0M
’21
−$1.0M
’22
$93k
’23
$16k
’24
$245k
’25
7.7
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.

Chief executive

Sara Albrecht

Chair, CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed3666811998
Joined·+3+1+0+4+4+3+2+1
No longer listed·01021522
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 16 funders, grant income rose $185k → $708k.

12 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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

LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

62% 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 LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER.

46%
largest funder
60%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 49% · 2019 90% · 2020 31% · 2021 54% · 2022 20% · 2023 28% — 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

46% of LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

58% of LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER'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. Of the $5.4M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 20 states.

MN
IL
WI
MI
MA
OR
IA
PA
CA
VA
MD
DE
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve7.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)32% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER

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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 4%Fundraising 2%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

70%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 38 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER: 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 LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER?
LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,638,728 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,829,515). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER have?
IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $12,638,728 in grants to LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,829,515 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 50 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