Virginia · Nonprofit
THE IP LAW FOUNDATION
THE IP LAW FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,500 to it, the largest being American Bar Association ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $307k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What The Ip Law Foundation does
Mission
Helps offer career-preparation, career-readiness, and career-advancement support to students interested in the patent law profession.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To offer career-preparation, career-readiness, and career-advancement support to individuals with an interest in the in the patent law profession in the united states. The foundation's programs work toward accelerating the development of a dedicated ip professional community through networking, counseling, and mentoring efforts aimed at fostering career advancement of individuals with an interest in the patent law profession in the united states. The sidney b. Williams, jr. Scholar program: this merit-based program supports students from stem backgrounds who aspire to pursue careers in intellectual property law. Designed to expand access and success within the patent law profession, the program is open to individuals applying to aba- accredited law schools. For nearly two decades, the sidney b. Williams, jr. Scholar program has been a vital source of financial support for students exploring careers in intellectual property law. Today, the program has expanded its reach providing a comprehensive suite of resources to help students secure a legal education and launch successful careers in patent law. In addition to financial assistance, scholars now benefit from: personalized…
$312,198 spentof which $204,658 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $312,198.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $1.4M (+7%).
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.
93% of THE IP LAW FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Kiera Mathey
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $18k → $3k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 IP LAW FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 funders by total. 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 IP LAW FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 IP LAW FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2022 78% · 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
THE IP LAW FOUNDATION draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 IP LAW FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE IP LAW FOUNDATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE IP LAW FOUNDATION: 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 IP LAW FOUNDATION?
- THE IP LAW FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,500 to it, the largest being American Bar Association ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE IP LAW FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $59,500 in grants to THE IP LAW FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE IP LAW FOUNDATION?
- American Bar Association is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE IP LAW FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 5 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