Oregon · Nonprofit
OREGON TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
OREGON TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION (Oregon) 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
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $127k
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Oregon Trial Lawyers Association does
Mission
Dedicated to protecting people, holding wrongdoers accountable, and promoting a fair and equitable justice system
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Continuing education:presentation, coordination and administration of legal education seminars and conferences for its members.
Legislative advocacy:development of positions and strategies with regard to legislation impacting oregonian's access to justice.
Publications and newsletters:publication of a quarterly magazine and a bi-monthly newsletter relating to the organization's mission.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.5M to $4.5M (+80%).
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: 2021 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. 1 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
Elizabeth Bernard
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 OREGON TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION’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
OREGON TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, 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.
Organizations like OREGON TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Oregon Jury Project · exempt
- Otla PAC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OREGON TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION: 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 OREGON TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION?
- OREGON TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION (Oregon) 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 OREGON TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $127,440 in grants to OREGON TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION?
- 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 OREGON TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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