Colorado · Nonprofit
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $412,900 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BARRISTERS FOUNDATION ($217,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $413k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What National Institute for Trial Advocacy does
Mission
Nita, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, was founded by a dedicated team of professors, judges and practicing lawyers who believe that skilled and ethical advocacy is a critical component of legal continued on schedule o
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public/public service programs nita provides all lawyers access to the highest quality legal skills training. Training focuses on the learning-by-doing methodology, pioneered by nita. Public service programs are provided either free of charge or at a significantly discounted tuition rate. Mission and need-based scholarship funding is also available for most public programs.
$3,820,782 spentof which $686,868 as grants$4,388,466 earned by the program55% of program spendingPublications - authored by some of the best minds in the legal profession, nita's wide variety of publications further the mission of providing the best legal training available. Reference books, texts, case files, a/v and other electronic materials make nita the premier publisher of legal resources at law schools, libraries and law firms. Any net revenue over expenses generated through publication sales provides a unique opportunity to fund nita's broader mission by covering administrative costs funding public service programs. In addition, books are donated to need-based lawyers and organizations.
$985,398 spent$230,808 earned by the program14% of program spendingCustomized programs - nita's customized programs provide a firm or organization with a level of flexibility and customization not available in other nita offerings. The learning-by-doing methodology still holds true but the nita expert faculty has a chance to work with firm partners or each organization's management to ensure the program's curriculum is customized to meet each organization's unique professional development initiatives, not to mention scheduling demands. Any net revenue over expenses generated through customized programs provides a unique opportunity to fund nita's broader mission by covering admin costs and funding public service programs.
$2,138,931 spent$3,010,868 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,945,111.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.4M to $4.2M (+23%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 16% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Wendy Mccormack
Executive director
Board chair
Edwin John U
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $18k → $80k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Nita Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY’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 INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 57% · 2022 83% · 2023 63% — growing more concentrated.
“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 INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states 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
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 97 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record — $3.3M federal, $17k state.
- Department of Labor$1.2M
- Department of the Treasury$504k
- Securities and Exchange Commission$443k
- Department of Justice$392k
- National Labor Relations Board$232k
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission$180k
- DE$10k
- VT$6k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Nita Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY: 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 INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY?
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $412,900 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BARRISTERS FOUNDATION ($217,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $412,900 in grants to NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY?
- INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BARRISTERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $217,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 3 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