- Revenue 2024
- $5,204,350
- Expenses 2024
- $5,365,869
As filed
- Subsection
- 06
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 2001 BRYAN ST STE 3000
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).
Group exemption
A subordinate covered by the group exemption of AMERICAN BOARD OF TRIAL ADVOCATES (EIN 95-2504030). matched by us
The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
To foster improvement in the ethical and technical standards of practice in the field of advocacy for individuals in the civil justice system. The organization works to preserve the jury system and improve the skills of trial lawyers.
Activities or mission (Part I)
To improve advocacy standards and benefit the public through more effective representation.
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ABOTA conducts seminars and meetings to educate trial lawyers and honor the accomplishments of its members. The organization provides financial assistance to members and students to participate in educational events conducted by ABOTA or the Foundation.
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To promote the preservation of the jury system through educational outreach programs.
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Ms Andrea La'Verne Edney
National President
- Total calculated
- $60,000
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $60,000
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 20 related
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Mr Steven W Quattlebaum
Immediate Past President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 10 related
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Ms Jennifer Haltom Doan
National President-Elect
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 10 related
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Mr William D Shapiro
National Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 10 related
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Mr Craig M Peters
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 10 related
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Ms Jill Webb
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 10 related
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Mr Frederick W James
Foundation President
- Total calculated
- $24,000
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $24,000
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 20 related
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Hon Jerome B Abrams
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Ms Mary E Alexander
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Mr Pedro Raul Alvarez Jr
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Ms Hilary C Banker
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Mr Christopher J Beeman
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Mr Eugene Brown Jr
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Ms Karen C Burgess
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Mr Joseph Alan Callier
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Ms Adriana H Cardenas
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Mr Brian A Cardoza
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Mr David E Cherry
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Mr Robert A Cole
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Mr John K Courtney
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Ms Cynthia Diggs
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Mr Winford L Dunn Jr
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Mr Thomas S Edwards Jr
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Mrs Philippa Victoria Ellis
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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Mr Curtis W Fenley III
ABOTA National Appointee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
The first 25 listed. 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
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2024
- Revenue
- $5,204,350
- Expenses
- $5,365,869
- Contributions
- $286,033
- Grants paid
- $530,761
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2023
- Revenue
- $4,603,099
- Expenses
- $4,689,695
- Contributions
- $129,673
- Grants paid
- $412,117
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2022
- Revenue
- $4,387,362
- Expenses
- $4,539,642
- Contributions
- $248,965
- Grants paid
- $451,870
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,094,668
- Expenses
- $3,086,808
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,790,425
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,067,670
- Expenses
- $1,969,836
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,761,572
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,920,196
- Expenses
- $3,962,079
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,663,738
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,645,456
- Expenses
- $3,782,250
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,705,621
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,487,923
- Expenses
- $3,450,901
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,842,415
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,403,545
- Expenses
- $3,464,676
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,807,892
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,422,037
- Expenses
- $3,177,174
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,869,023
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,216,453
- Expenses
- $3,137,144
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,624,160
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,051,011
- Expenses
- $2,802,704
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,544,851
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $2,816,263
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,296,544
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
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2024 General support
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2023 General support
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2022 General support
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2022 General support
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$25,000
2022 General support
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Arkansas Mock Trial Foundation
$15,000
2022 General support
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2023 General support
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$12,500
2024 General support
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South Dakota Deposition Academy
$12,000
2022 South Dakota Deposition Academy
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$10,000
2023 General support
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.
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 2024 return
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Foundation of the American Board of Trial Advocates
501(c)(3) · Support advocacy programs · SC · controlled entity
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American Board of Trial Advocates - National
501(c)(6) · Public interest · CA
Declared as related by
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AMERICAN BOARD OF TRIAL ADVOCATES
On its 2024 return
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FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN BOARD OF TRIAL ADVOCATES
On its 2024 return
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
Not present in the most recent drop.
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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.