Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MASSACHUSETTS ACADEMY OF TRIAL ATTORNEYS
MASSACHUSETTS ACADEMY OF TRIAL ATTORNEYS (Massachusetts) 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 FY2025
- $705k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $127k
- Net assets
- $490k
What Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys does
Mission
To protect the health and safety of families, to improve the quality of legal representation, to educate the public about consumer issues, to uphold the dignity of the legal profession, and to uphold and defend the constitution of the united states and the commonwealth of massachusetts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Organizing relevant continuing legal education (cle) programs and seminars to increase members' knowledge and understanding of emerging legal issues and cases
$572,573 spent100% of program spendingLobbying government agencies and conducting public support programs related to legislation
Keepers of justice: to sponsor, co-sponsor or participate in activities that promote the administration of justice, education in the law, respect for the rule of law in the protection of consumers, and to engage generally in any activity which may lawfully be carried on by a corporation which is organized under chapter 180 of the massachusetts general laws and which is exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(c)(6) of the internal revenue code 1986, as both may be in effect from time to time.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $572,573.
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 2019 to 2020, from $778k to $662k (−15%).
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.
69% of MASSACHUSETTS ACADEMY OF TRIAL ATTORNEYS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Paul Dullea
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $14k.
From the IRS filings of MASSACHUSETTS ACADEMY OF TRIAL ATTORNEYS’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
MASSACHUSETTS ACADEMY OF TRIAL ATTORNEYS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
MASSACHUSETTS ACADEMY OF TRIAL ATTORNEYS is better cushioned than half of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MASSACHUSETTS ACADEMY OF TRIAL ATTORNEYS
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Consumer Justice Institute · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS ACADEMY OF TRIAL ATTORNEYS?
- MASSACHUSETTS ACADEMY OF TRIAL ATTORNEYS (Massachusetts) 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 MASSACHUSETTS ACADEMY OF TRIAL ATTORNEYS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $127,440 in grants to MASSACHUSETTS ACADEMY OF TRIAL ATTORNEYS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MASSACHUSETTS ACADEMY OF TRIAL ATTORNEYS?
- 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 MASSACHUSETTS ACADEMY OF TRIAL ATTORNEYS 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.
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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