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TEXANS FOR LAWSUIT REFORM

EIN 76-0439129 HOUSTON, TX

Revenue 2024
$5,937,200
Expenses 2024
$5,201,014

As filed

Subsection
06
NTEE code
I05
Classification
2000
Street
1233 WEST LOOP S STE 1375

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 · 2024

Mission

See Schedule OTLR works to shape policy primarily in the Texas civil justice and court system through public education, legislative advocacy and building broad public support for a fair, competent and honest judiciary as well as a fair, balanced and predictable dispute resolution system. TLR is also sometimes involved in other public policy issues related to core governmental functions. TLR benefits all citizens by working to bring public attention to important government issues and working to address difficulties, deficiencies or abuses in the Texas civil justice system.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TLR works to shape policy on creating a fair and predictable Texas civil justice system.

  • Texans for Lawsuit Reform (TLR) engages in education of elected officials and the public about the Texas civil justice system including dispute resolution processes and the judiciary. Having gained recognition as a major contributor to public policy discussion, formation, and implementation in Texas, TLR's engagement in public debate, particularly concerning legal issues, has been substantial and meaningful. It also engages in legislative advocacy to improve the Texas civil justice system and, sometimes, on other issues, such as criminal justice and administrative/regulatory processes. Numerous changes in law benefiting all Texans and advocated by TLR have been enacted since TLR's formation in 1994.

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Richard W Weekley

    Sr. Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 5 related

  • Emerson Hankamer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Alan Hassenflu

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related

  • Fred Heldenfels

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Hugh Rice Kelly

    Ex Officio

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Steve Oden

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joe Popolo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Frederick Rowe

    Director - Deceased

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Shellebarger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Danny Signorelli

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marc Watts

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • E Lee Parsley

    President & General Counse

    Total calculated
    $414,935
    From this org
    $372,300
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,635
    Hours/week
    40 + 3 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $340,000
    Bonus
    $32,300
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $19,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,135
    Filer's total
    $414,935

  • Mary Tipps

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $276,702
    From this org
    $224,980
    From related orgs
    $16,500
    Other
    $35,222
    Hours/week
    40 + 2 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $203,980 + $16,500 related
    Bonus
    $21,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $13,229
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,993
    Filer's total
    $260,202 + $16,500 related

  • Denis Calabrese

    Chief Strategist

    Total calculated
    $254,332
    From this org
    $189,250
    From related orgs
    $22,000
    Other
    $43,082
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $164,250 + $22,000 related
    Bonus
    $25,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $19,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,582
    Filer's total
    $232,332 + $22,000 related

  • Lucy Nashed

    Communications Director

    Total calculated
    $159,318
    From this org
    $122,054
    From related orgs
    $22,000
    Other
    $15,264
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $122,054 + $22,000 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,084
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,180
    Filer's total
    $137,318 + $22,000 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. 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
    $5,937,200
    Expenses
    $5,201,014
    Contributions
    $5,502,173
    Grants paid
    $480,765
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,479,701
    Expenses
    $4,643,887
    Contributions
    $4,493,455
    Grants paid
    $220,986
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,039,216
    Expenses
    $3,495,494
    Contributions
    $3,985,469
    Grants paid
    $180,649

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
    $3,976,607
    Expenses
    $3,963,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,382,168

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,265,025
    Expenses
    $2,753,806
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,339,111

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,550,427
    Expenses
    $3,850,818
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,842,615

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,349,738
    Expenses
    $2,825,313
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,164,840

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,292,189
    Expenses
    $3,854,524
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,643,945

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,767,812
    Expenses
    $2,517,525
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,188,158

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,451,650
    Expenses
    $3,079,838
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,914,799

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,336,973
    Expenses
    $2,412,533
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,560,217

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,264,760
    Expenses
    $2,911,203
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,626,612

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,093,909
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,273,516

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 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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.