About American Association for Justice
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Focus Areas
Legal education and CLEAdvocacy and public policyMember services and networkingPublications and researchScholarships and education funds
Who They Fund
nonprofit organizations (event hosts)general community/attendeescommunity-based partners
Funding Style
event sponsorshippartnership-based fundingproject/short-term supportprogram-specific sponsorship
About American Association for Justice
The American Association for Justice’s giving is built around law-related convenings, scholarships, and partnership support for trial-lawyer organizations. One of the clearest signals in the recent record is its repeated support for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation through event sponsorships across 2023, 2024, and 2025, showing a multi-year relationship rather than a one-off gift. Alongside that, the foundation backs a wide network of state and local justice associations through a consistent Partnership for Progress grant line. Those recipients include groups in Alaska, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin, which points to a national approach to strengthening civil-justice advocacy and professional education. The foundation also maintains dedicated education funds, including scholarship support for law students and trial advocacy training, which fits its stated emphasis on legal education, CLE, advocacy, publications, and research. In practice, its grantmaking appears to support the infrastructure of the plaintiffs’ trial-law community: meetings, conventions, training, and organizational partnerships that help member associations serve lawyers and the public.
What American Association for Justice Funds
A large share of the foundation’s giving centers on professional convenings and sponsorships. It gave $35,000 in 2025 to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation for event sponsorship, following $25,000 in 2024 and $20,000 in 2023 for the same purpose. It also uses partnership grants to support state trial-law organizations, such as $14,160 to the Florida Justice Association for Partnership for Progress and the same amount to the New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association for the same purpose. Education is another clear thread. The AAJ-NPLA Law Student Convention Scholarship Fund supports law students attending the AAJ/NPLA convention or related student programming, while the Paul Scoptur Trial Advocacy Scholarship Fund supports trial advocacy education. The foundation also lists an LGBT Caucus Convention Scholarship Fund for convention attendance and educational programming.
How American Association for Justice Gives
The typical grant size is highly uniform: p25, median, and p75 are all $14,160, indicating a standard grant amount across much of the portfolio. The recent record also shows repeated awards to the same recipients over multiple years, especially the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and several state justice associations, suggesting ongoing partnership support rather than isolated gifts. The foundation is an operating public charity with annual grants of $2,072,580 and total assets of $41,403,056. Its active programs are organized as education funds, scholarship funds, and support funds, and the scraped pages do not describe an unsolicited application process.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$700K
Total Assets
$41.4M
Total Revenue
$31.7M
Total Expenses
$28.7M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $14K and $14K, with a median of $14K.
25th Percentile
$14K
Median
$14K
75th Percentile
$14K
Geographic Reach
National46 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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