Mission
A professional organization that promotes leadership, scholarship, and continuing improvements in legal writing programs and pedagogy.
Public Charity
ASSOCIATION OF LEGAL WRITING DIRECTORS
ASSOCIATION OF LEGAL WRITING DIRECTORS is a Public Charity headquartered in Lawrence, KS. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $225K revenue, $168K expenses, $745K total assets. 6 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $750K, appear in IRS filings.
EIN: 364102592
Lawrence, KS
Professional Societies & Associations
NTEE: I03
Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$225K
Total Expenses$168K
Total Assets$745K
Grant Records6
Funding Total$750K
Filing Years2021–2025
Where $100 goes at Association of Legal Writing Directors
How Association of Legal Writing Directors divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 8 years.
$94
Programs
the work itself
$6
Management
running the organization
$0
Fundraising
none reported
No fundraising costs are reported. That often means fundraising runs through a separate affiliated organization that files its own return.
Inside the $94 for programs
$45
Held a 3-day conference attended by approximately 200 legal-writing professionals that featured approximately 40 presentations related to leadership, scholarship, and legal-writing pedagogy, an innovative teaching workshop, a leadership…
$10
Published a new volume of Legal Communication & Rhetoric, the scholarly journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors
$9
Provided Teaching Grants to twelve legal writing professionals to explore innovative teaching ideas and produce teaching tools, materials, and curriculum that will assist others in the field
Plus 10 more programs. Cost per person served and the full program breakdown are on the full profile.
Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.
Sample Grants Received
subaward
$10,000
subaward
$232,000
subaward
$148,000
subaward
$55,000
subaward
$40,000
Showing up to 5 of 6 total records — full history available with membership.
Officers & Directors
Director
Alison Mikkor
Director
Ann Ching
Director
Bonny Tavares Dean
Director
Brenda Bauges
Director
Charlie Oldfield
President; Past President
David Cleveland
Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.
Top Grant Purposes
Financial Trends
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $225K | $168K | $745K |
| 2024 | $109K | $78K | $674K |
| 2023 | $272K | $164K | $653K |
| 2022 | $87K | $72K | $535K |
| 2021 | $102K | $83K | $519K |
Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue grew from $102K to $225K (+121%), with total assets most recently reported at $745K.
Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.