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THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RULE OF LAW INITIATIVES
THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RULE OF LAW INITIATIVES (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,432 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($140,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $154k
- Net assets
- $144k
What The Foundation for Sustainable Rule of Law Initiatives does
Mission
The organization's mission is to promote rule of law and mediation initiatives around the globe to further peaceful, timely and effective dispute resolution and judicial reform.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Brazil in continuing coordination with brazil's institute for certification and training (icfml), fsri was invited to and participated in several presentations/trainings on effective mediation techniques, which also included on-line meetings with experienced brazilian mediators to discuss mediation experiences, challenges and new techniques. In addition, fsri was invited to attend and present various lectures and coaching at the annual cbms national, mediation conference in rio.
$22,309 spent50% of program spendingFsri continued its efforts to promote mediation programs in india and elsewhere around the globe through virtual and other on-line communications with our colleagues overseas. Fsri was once again invited to participate and co-sponsor india's verma memorial & client counseling competition at the agrasen institute for management studies (department of law). Fsri board member jennifer brandt participated in this project with academic leaders at the institute, and provided coaching and judging for the student competitors.
$22,308 spent50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,617.
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 2018 to 2019, from $126k to $179k (+42%).
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.
73% of THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RULE OF LAW INITIATIVES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $35k → $6k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RULE OF LAW INITIATIVES’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
THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RULE OF LAW INITIATIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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 THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RULE OF LAW INITIATIVES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
100% of THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RULE OF LAW INITIATIVES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $154k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RULE OF LAW INITIATIVES's revenue fell 47% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RULE OF LAW INITIATIVES
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RULE OF LAW INITIATIVES: 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 THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RULE OF LAW INITIATIVES?
- THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RULE OF LAW INITIATIVES (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,432 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($140,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RULE OF LAW INITIATIVES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $154,432 in grants to THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RULE OF LAW INITIATIVES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RULE OF LAW INITIATIVES?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RULE OF LAW INITIATIVES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing