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FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN BOARD OF TRIAL ADVOCATES

EIN 57-0969581 DALLAS, TX

Revenue 2024
$1,877,387
Expenses 2024
$2,020,376

Program services were 62.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R99Z
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).

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.

  • Frederick James

    President

    Total calculated
    $24,000
    From this org
    $24,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20 + 1 related

  • Deborah Tropp-Thompson

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 1 related

  • Lynn Leonard

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 1 related

  • JD Smith

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 1 related

  • Christopher Beeman

    Foundation Past President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 1 related

  • Luis Cardenas

    Foundation Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Jennifer Haltom Doan

    National President Elect

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 10 related

  • 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

  • Corinne Hodak

    Foundation Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Yoshiaki Kubota

    Foundation Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Wayne Ritchie

    Foundation Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • William Shapiro

    National Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 10 related

  • Pamela Traut

    Foundation Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Brian Tyson

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $312,019
    From this org
    $51,700
    From related orgs
    $206,795
    Other
    $53,524
    Hours/week
    7.5 + 31 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $51,500 + $205,995 related
    Bonus
    $200 + $800 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,170 + $20,680 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,535 + $22,139 related
    Filer's total
    $62,405 + $249,614 related

  • Nichole Tabaska

    Finance Director

    Total calculated
    $78,705
    From this org
    $28,050
    From related orgs
    $42,075
    Other
    $8,580
    Hours/week
    15 + 22.5 related

  • Sarah Walhert-Kersh

    Nat'l Assoc Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $218,912
    From this org
    $18,260
    From related orgs
    $164,339
    Other
    $36,313
    Hours/week
    3.75 + 33.75 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $18,160 + $163,439 related
    Bonus
    $100 + $900 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,826 + $16,434 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,805 + $16,248 related
    Filer's total
    $21,891 + $197,021 related

  • Molly McDonald

    Fdn Assoc Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $197,756
    From this org
    $156,874
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $40,882
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,874
    Bonus
    $1,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $15,687
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,195
    Filer's total
    $197,756

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,877,387
    Expenses
    $2,020,376
    Contributions
    $1,502,083
    Grants paid
    $238,324
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,777,332
    Expenses
    $1,927,358
    Contributions
    $1,650,815
    Grants paid
    $172,435
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,685,577
    Expenses
    $2,001,875
    Contributions
    $1,480,145
    Grants paid
    $282,860

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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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

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 10 September 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.