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MINNESOTANS FOR LAWSUIT REFORM

MINNESOTANS FOR LAWSUIT REFORM (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$54k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$43k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Minnesotans for Lawsuit Reform does

Mission

Founded in 2010, Minnesotans for Lawsuit Reform (mnflr) is a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to improving minnesota by promoting a fair, efficient and predictable state civil justice system,which benefits all minnesotans and improves our states business climate. We work to improve the states civil justice system through education and engagement of the public, research and advocacy before the minnesota legislature.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Inform the public through various media and events of the need for change to current practices.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

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 ($45k) Expenses 100 ($48k) Net assets 100 ($28k)2018 Revenue 118 ($53k) Expenses 117 ($57k) Net assets 88 ($24k)2019 Revenue 143 ($64k) Expenses 128 ($62k) Net assets 95 ($26k)2020 Revenue 93 ($42k) Expenses 45 ($22k) Net assets 171 ($47k)2022 Revenue 121 ($55k) Expenses 49 ($24k) Net assets 118 ($33k)2024 Revenue 120 ($54k) Expenses 102 ($49k) Net assets 156 ($43k)
201720182019202020222024
Revenue (120)Expenses (102)Net assets (156)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 2019 to 2020, from $26k to $47k (+80%).

$34k
$24k
$26k
$47k
$33k
$43k
201720182019202020222024
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
2022
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of MINNESOTANS FOR LAWSUIT REFORM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
−$3k
’18
$2k
’19
$20k
’20
$31k
’22
$5k
’24

Leadership and staff

Board chair

John Reynolds

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.

Funder
'21
'22
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of MINNESOTANS FOR LAWSUIT REFORM’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

MINNESOTANS FOR LAWSUIT REFORM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.

DC

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

’21
’22
Minnesota 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

Against its field

MINNESOTANS FOR LAWSUIT REFORM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,376 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,376 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like MINNESOTANS FOR LAWSUIT REFORM

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In Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MINNESOTANS FOR LAWSUIT REFORM: 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 MINNESOTANS FOR LAWSUIT REFORM?
MINNESOTANS FOR LAWSUIT REFORM (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MINNESOTANS FOR LAWSUIT REFORM have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to MINNESOTANS FOR LAWSUIT REFORM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTANS FOR LAWSUIT REFORM?
PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MINNESOTANS FOR LAWSUIT REFORM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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