Illinois · Nonprofit
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLE
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLE (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,469 to it, the largest being ALTECSTYSLINGER FOUNDATION ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $179k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $469k
What National Foundation for Judicial Excelle does
Mission
Address important legal policy issues affecting the law and civil justice system by providing meaningful support and education to the judiciary, by publishing scholarly works and by engaging in other efforts to continually enhance and ensure judicial excellence and fairness for all engaged in the judicial process.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provision of educational information and seminars for judges.
$269,350 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $269,350.
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 $370k to $596k (+61%).
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.
92% of NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Tillman J Breckenridge
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $36.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $126k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation of the International Association of Defense Counsel). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLE raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLE’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
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
32% 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 NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 79% · 2021 99% · 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
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $219 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
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLE
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Defense Research Institute Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLE: 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 NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLE?
- NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLE (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,469 to it, the largest being ALTECSTYSLINGER FOUNDATION ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $16,469 in grants to NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLE?
- ALTECSTYSLINGER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 5 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