Texas · Nonprofit
The University of Texas Law School Foundation
The University of Texas Law School Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,686,204 to it, the largest being BUDD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,400,000). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $352M
What The University of Texas Law School Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Law School Foundation is the development, management, and enhancement of the financial and administrative resources which support the University of Texas School of Law.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Over the past 15 years, the Foundation has provided approximately $127 million of financial support to the Law School. This support is provided through endowments and other designated gifts, as well as support provided from funds of the Foundation itself. Many different initiatives are funded through this support such as student scholarships and fellowships, faculty chairs and professorships, and programs such as the Pro Bono program, and the Center for Women in Law.
$24,530,595 spentof which $24,416,469 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $24,530,595.
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 2020 to 2021, from $237M to $289M (+22%).
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.
64% of The University of Texas Law School Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
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
Susan Hartenstein
Executive Director
Board chair
Susan L Blount
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $3.8M.
20 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.5M from 11 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money The University of Texas Law School Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of The University of Texas Law School Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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 University of Texas Law School Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
47% 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 University of Texas Law School Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 47% · 2019 34% · 2020 49% · 2021 19% · 2022 16% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
40% of The University of Texas Law School Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
78% of The University of Texas Law School Foundation's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 University of Texas Law School Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like The University of Texas Law School 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- UTLSF Holdings LLC · disregarded
- The University of Texas · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The University of Texas Law School 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 University of Texas Law School Foundation?
- The University of Texas Law School Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,686,204 to it, the largest being BUDD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,400,000). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The University of Texas Law School Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $17,686,204 in grants to The University of Texas Law School Foundation, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The University of Texas Law School Foundation?
- BUDD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The University of Texas Law School 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.
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 86 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing