International Academy of Trial Lawyers Foundation

Analysis

International Academy of Trial Lawyers Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Roseville, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, International Academy of Trial Lawyers Foundation reported income of $354k and spending of $479k, spending 135% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.5m to $354k (-77%), an average of -30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 94%. Over the whole period it spent 72% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, International Academy of Trial Lawyers Foundation sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Saving Grace in Uganda Inc ($353k), Fundacion Tzedaka USA Inc ($354k) and Womens Rights Without Frontiers International ($353k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 80% of the total. At year end it held assets of $7.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $7.5m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.