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MAINE TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION

MAINE TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION (Maine) 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
$165k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$127k
Net assets
$2k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Maine Trial Lawyers Association does

Mission

Promote excellence in trial advocacy through training and education; promote civility and professionalism in the bar; influence and promote legislation consistent with this mission; support an independent and impartial judiciary; preserve the right to trial by jury.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Conducted live and on-line continuing education programs related to trial advocacy; maintained an on-line exchange of insights and information among members; conducted a college of trial advocacy for young lawyers; serving a total of 743 attorney attendance instances throughout the year, on topics ranging from ethics, including harassment and discrimination, to technical courtroom advocacy procedures.

  2. Operated an online messaging exchange to encourage communciation and sharing of expertise among the members of the association, delivering more than 13,000 email messages throughout the year.

  3. Operated a legislative coordination program that evaluated the nominations of approximately 25 judicial nominees through member-wide surveys and legislative meetings, conducted weekly legislative committee meetings that reviewed more than 300 separate legislative proposals for impact on the justice system. These efforts included the preparation, review, and presentation of judicial testimony.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 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 ($187k) Expenses 100 ($194k) Net assets -4 ($-1875)2018 Revenue 125 ($234k) Expenses 94 ($183k) Net assets 100 ($49k)2019 Revenue 83 ($156k) Expenses 91 ($177k) Net assets 57 ($28k)2020 Revenue 98 ($183k) Expenses 82 ($160k) Net assets 105 ($52k)2021 Revenue 90 ($169k) Expenses 87 ($169k) Net assets 105 ($52k)2022 Revenue 72 ($134k) Expenses 83 ($161k) Net assets 50 ($25k)2023 Revenue 93 ($174k) Expenses 88 ($171k) Net assets 56 ($28k)2024 Revenue 88 ($165k) Expenses 98 ($191k) Net assets 4 ($2k)
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Revenue (88)Expenses (98)Net assets (4)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $15k to $49k (+219%).

$15k
$49k
$28k
$52k
$52k
$25k
$28k
$2k
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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

Surplus & reserves

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

−$7k
’17
$51k
’18
−$21k
’19
$24k
’20
$55
’21
−$27k
’22
$3k
’23
−$26k
’24
0.0
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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Listed633333331333333
Joined·+27+5+0+3+3+0+0
No longer listed·0505100
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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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
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'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of MAINE TRIAL LAWYERS 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

MAINE TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 1 state in all.

DC

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

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Maine 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Governance

32
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 MAINE TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION?
MAINE TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION (Maine) 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 MAINE TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $127,440 in grants to MAINE TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MAINE TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION?
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 MAINE TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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