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NEW YORK STATE TRIAL LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION INC

NEW YORK STATE TRIAL LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION INC (New York) 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
$3.3M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$127k
Net assets
$-2409087
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What New York State Trial Lawyers' Association Inc does

Mission

To promote a safer and healthier society, to assure access to the civil justice system by those who are wrongfully injured and to advance representation of the public by ethical, well-trained lawyers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Protecting consumers, assuring that the wrongly injured have access to justice, and providing the public with ethical and well-trained lawyers.

    $2,374,643 spent$1,619,629 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,374,643.

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 ($4.1M) Expenses 100 ($4.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 92 ($3.7M) Expenses 99 ($4.0M) Net assets 78 ($847k)2019 Revenue 96 ($3.9M) Expenses 96 ($3.8M) Net assets 79 ($858k)2020 Revenue 87 ($3.5M) Expenses 81 ($3.3M) Net assets 106 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 70 ($2.8M) Expenses 79 ($3.2M) Net assets 77 ($834k)2022 Revenue 68 ($2.8M) Expenses 95 ($3.8M) Net assets -16 ($-173363)2023 Revenue 70 ($2.8M) Expenses 98 ($3.9M) Net assets -117 ($-1267627)2024 Revenue 73 ($3.0M) Expenses 92 ($3.7M) Net assets -183 ($-1993022)2025 Revenue 81 ($3.3M) Expenses 92 ($3.7M) Net assets -222 ($-2409087)
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Revenue (81)Expenses (92)Net assets (-222)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.4M to $1.2M (−49%).

$1.9M
$1.7M
$2.1M
$2.5M
$2.4M
$1.2M
$951k
$975k
$343k
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$51k
’17
−$240k
’18
$78k
’19
$262k
’20
−$325k
’21
−$1.0M
’22
−$1.1M
’23
−$725k
’24
−$416k
’25
1.0
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.

Chief executive

Lawrence Park

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed12011811713913710101010
Joined·+19+3+136+0+9+2+4+0
No longer listed·2141142136240
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
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of NEW YORK STATE TRIAL LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION INC’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

NEW YORK STATE TRIAL LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.

DC

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York 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

Organizations like NEW YORK STATE TRIAL LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION INC

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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 32%Fundraising 4%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • New York State Trial Lawyers Instituteinc · exempt
  • Big Apple Pothole · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

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