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INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF TRIAL LAWYERS FOUNDATION

EIN 77-0017150 ROSEVILLE, MN

Revenue 2025
$1,639,571
Expenses 2025
$449,533

Program services were 65.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q127
Classification
1000
Street
1935 COUNTY ROAD B2 W 165

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE MISSION OF THE FOUNDATION IS TO ENGAGE IN CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES RELATING TO THE LAW AND LEGAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND THROUGHOUT THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL COMMUNITY. IN FURTHERANCE OF THIS MISSION, THE FOUNDATION SUPPORTS NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND INITIATIVES FOCUSED ON:1. CULTIVATING THE RULE OF LAW AND THE SCIENCE OF JURISPRUDENCE2. PROMOTING REFORMS TO IMPROVE THE ADMINISTRATION AND QUALITY OF JUSTICE3. ELEVATING STANDARDS OF INTEGRITY, HONOR, AND PROFESSIONALISM WITHIN THE LEGAL PROFESSION4. PROMOTING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE ESSENTIAL SERVICES PERFORMED BY LEGAL PROFESSIONALS IN PROTECTING AND PRESERVING LEGAL RIGHTS

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROMOTE REFORM IN LAW, FACILIATATE THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AND CULTIVATE THE SCIENCE OF JURISPRUDENCE.

  • PROMOTION OF PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION'S ROLE IN PROTECTING RIGHTS:THE FOUNDATION FUNDS INITIATIVES THROUGH GRANTS TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT HIGHLIGHT THE LEGAL PROFESSION'S ESSENTIAL ROLE IN PROTECTING CIVIL LIBERTIES. THIS INCLUDES SUPPORT FOR ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS VECINA THAT PROVIDE PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS, AS WELL AS OTHER PUBLIC EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY INITIATIVES. BY EXPANDING ACCESS TO LEGAL RESOURCES AND REPRESENTATION, THESE PROGRAMS HELP ENSURE THAT VULNERABLE POPULATIONS RECEIVE PROTECTIONS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RULE OF LAW.

    Expenses $160,000 · Grants $160,000

  • PROMOTION OF REFORMS TO IMPROVE THE ADMINISTRATION AND QUALITY OF JUSTICE:THE FOUNDATION SUPPORTS THIS PROGRAM THROUGH GRANTS TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROMOTE FAIR, EFFECTIVE, AND INDEPENDENT JUSTICE SYSTEMS. GRANT SUPPORT INCLUDES PROGRAMS FUNDED THROUGH ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THE NITA FOUNDATION, WHICH PROVIDE JUDICIAL AND TRIAL ADVOCACY EDUCATION FOCUSED ON ETHICAL DECISIONMAKING, PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE, AND THE EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. THE FOUNDATION ALSO SUPPORTS INITIATIVES ADDRESSING SYSTEMIC REFORM, INCLUDING EFFORTS FOCUSED ON WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS AND THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY, TO PROMOTE FAIRNESS AND PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM.

    Expenses $80,000 · Grants $80,000

  • CULTIVATION OF THE RULE OF LAW AND THE SCIENCE OF JURISPRUDENCE:THE FOUNDATION FUNDS INITIATIVES THROUGH GRANTS TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT STRENGTHEN LEGAL INSTITUTIONS AND ENHANCE TRIAL ADVOCACY WORLDWIDE. THIS INCLUDES JUDICIAL TRAINING PROGRAMS IN COUNTRIES SUCH AS UGANDA, WHERE JUDGES AND LAWYERS RECEIVE EDUCATION ON CASE MANAGEMENT, CIVIL PROCEDURE, AND ADVOCACY TECHNIQUES. THE FOUNDATION ALSO SUPPORTS INTERNATIONAL LEGAL EXCHANGES, INCLUDING THE IRELAND PROGRAM, WHICH FOSTERS COLLABORATION BETWEEN U.S. AND IRISH TRIAL LAWYERS TO SHARE BEST PRACTICES IN COMMON LAW JURISDICTIONS.

    Expenses $55,000 · Grants $55,000

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • ROMAN SILBERFELD

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • A CLIFFORD EDWARDS

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • JANE MICHAELS

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JOSEPH MATTHEWS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES ROY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 10 related

  • JAMES ROGERS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES BOSTWICK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATHLEEN FLYNN PETERSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAN LITTLE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • WILLIAM WHITEHURST JR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JANEL KUEBKER

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 35 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,639,571
    Expenses
    $449,533
    Contributions
    $1,006,880
    Grants paid
    $295,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $910,540
    Expenses
    $520,505
    Contributions
    $255,900
    Grants paid
    $349,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $354,070
    Expenses
    $479,275
    Contributions
    $283,066
    Grants paid
    $363,780
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $379,028
    Expenses
    $419,192
    Contributions
    $151,773
    Grants paid
    $318,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $195,874
    Expenses
    $410,041
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,069,641

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $475,429
    Expenses
    $379,051
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,879,394

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,509,067
    Expenses
    $416,899
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,052,691

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $464,026
    Expenses
    $308,461
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,231,106

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,567,093
    Expenses
    $204,933
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,290,776

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $366,733
    Expenses
    $314,002
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,536,352

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $410,246
    Expenses
    $207,498
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,454,295

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $218,157
    Expenses
    $211,601
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,342,659

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $251,382
    Expenses
    $136,550
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,202,717

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $35,274
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,067,986

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.