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Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation

Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $340,641 to it, the largest being AMERICA 2076 ($190,641). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$706k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$341k
Net assets
$1.5M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 91%
01What it does

What Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation does

Program

  1. The Foundation conducts and supports non-partisan research and analysis on Texas's justice, economic, and regulatory systems. Research is carried out by independent scholars and qualified professionals with relevant experience and expertise. The Foundation has studied and published on topics including the cost of civil litigation, the structure of Texas's trial and appellate court system, sovereign immunity, the establishment of specialty courts such as a business-case court, judicial selection, liability issues related to the transportation and storage of carbon, the Texas civil jury system, prompt-payment laws, asbestos litigation, the economic impact of tort reform, the Texas anti-SLAPP statute, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Foundation reports are widely distributed to interested parties and the public at large and are available on the Foundation's website.

    $130,209 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

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 ($63k) Expenses 100 ($84k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 89 ($56k) Expenses 116 ($97k) Net assets 96 ($995k)2019 Revenue 176 ($110k) Expenses 283 ($236k) Net assets 84 ($869k)2020 Revenue 84 ($53k) Expenses 195 ($163k) Net assets 73 ($759k)2021 Revenue 159 ($100k) Expenses 104 ($87k) Net assets 74 ($772k)2022 Revenue 80 ($50k) Expenses 207 ($173k) Net assets 63 ($649k)2023 Revenue 481 ($301k) Expenses 66 ($55k) Net assets 86 ($896k)2024 Revenue 1125 ($706k) Expenses 156 ($130k) Net assets 142 ($1.5M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (1125)Expenses (156)Net assets (142)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 2023 to 2024, from $896k to $1.5M (+64%).

$1.0M
$995k
$869k
$759k
$772k
$649k
$896k
$1.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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Joined·+1+0+0+0+0+0·
No longer listed·100000·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100k → $25k.

Funder
'19
'23
'24*
total
$191k
funders
1
1
2

From the IRS filings of Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation’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

Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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

56% 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 Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation.

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 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

100% of Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

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

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’23
Texas 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

Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve135.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)41% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation?
Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $340,641 to it, the largest being AMERICA 2076 ($190,641). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $340,641 in grants to Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation?
AMERICA 2076 is the largest funder on record, with $190,641 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing