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Allegheny County Bar Foundation

The mission of the ALLEGHENY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION is to be a driving force in promoting justice for all and to improve the community through public service law-related programs as the charitable arm of the allegheny county bar association.

$367k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.0MCrime & Legal$538k
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $190,312, the rows itemized in this filing. The $366,812 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $176,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $116k
$9,299
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOWNTOWN MINISTERIUM WALK IN MINISTY$22,162
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$16,854
NORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH$15,812
NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES$11,091
HUGH LANE WELLNESS FOUNDATION$10,000
WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER$10,000
ARISE IMMIGRATION SERVICES$10,000
ANSAR OF PITTSBURGH$10,000
WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT$10,000
ALLIES FOR HEALTH & WELL BEING$9,299
JUST HARVEST$9,299
HUNGER SERVICES URBAN LEAGUE OF PITTSBURGH$8,137
SQUIRREL HILL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$6,974
CASA SAN JOSE$5,812
RAINBOW KITCHEN$5,812
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $304k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ARISE IMMIGRATION SERVICES: $10k → 11%ARISE IMMIGRATION SERVICES: $10k → 11%CASA SAN JOSE: $7k → 11%CASA SAN JOSE: $6k → 11%SQUIRREL HILL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $9k → 11%SQUIRREL HILL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $8k → 11%SQUIRREL HILL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $8k → 11%SQUIRREL HILL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $7k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $5k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $5k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $5k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $5k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $7k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $6k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $6k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $5k → 11%RAINBOW KITCHEN: $7k → 11%RAINBOW KITCHEN: $6k → 11%RAINBOW KITCHEN: $6k → 11%RAINBOW KITCHEN: $5k → 11%JUBILEE KITCHEN: $9k → 11%JUBILEE KITCHEN: $6k → 11%JUBILEE KITCHEN: $6k → 11%JUBILEE KITCHEN: $5k → 11%HUNGER SERVICES URBAN LEAGUE OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%HUNGER SERVICES URBAN LEAGUE OF PITTSBURGH: $9k → 11%HUNGER SERVICES URBAN LEAGUE OF PITTSBURGH: $9k → 11%HUNGER SERVICES URBAN LEAGUE OF PITTSBURGH: $8k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER: $10k → 11%ANSAR OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%ANSAR OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 24 repeat orgs$157k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
4

Total granted

$1.4M
$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+21%

Still filing today

83%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthFood & NutritionReligionCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NL
    NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $172k · revenue +132%
  • WC
    WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +35%
  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    4× · 2022–2025 · $72k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • 1G
    18 GREATER PGH COMM FOOD BANKS
    one grant, 2017 · $109k
  • 1M
    1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -7%
  • AC
    ALLEGHENY COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +23%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Women Against Abuse Inc

The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…

Human Services
2
Women's Center and Shelter Civil Law Project

To provide civil legal services to women in crisis.

Human Services
3
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh

Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…

Human Services
4
Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

The pittsburgh metropolitan area hispanic chamber of commerce is the principal regional advocate for the hispanic business community's civic and economic interests. it is our mission to develop, promote, and advocate on behalf of hispanic…

Community Improvement
5
Acculturation for Justice Access & Peace Outreach

Ajapo's mission is to provide a continuum of care which empowers refugees and immigrants to become self-sufficient and integrated into the greater pittsburgh community in allegheny county. ajapo is a refugee resettlement agency providing…

Human Services
6
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
7
Public Justice Center Inc

The public justice center (pjc) pursues systemic change to build a just society. (see schedule o)the pjc uses legal advocacy tools to pursue social justice, economic and race equity, and fundamental human rights for people who are…

Crime & Legal
8
North Penn Legal Services

To solve civil legal problems and empower vulnerable populations through professional legal representation, advocacy, and education.

Crime & Legal
9
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
10
Mercy Life Center Corporation

We, pittsburgh mercy health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life center is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…

Health
11
Renthelppgh

The mission is to build a just and stable housing ecosystem for allegheny county tenants by ensuring residents can easily access high quality eviction prevention and supportive services, rental assistance programs and resource navigation…

Housing & Shelter
12
Juvenile Justice Center of Phila

The juvenile justice center of philadelphia is a non-profit, multi-service agency that serves the needs of disadvantaged children, youth and families.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh; the most unlike its peers is Ansar of Pittsburgh Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

17 GREATER PGH COMM FOOD BANKS: $468,421 · Other17 GREATER PGH COMM FOOD BANKS18 GREATER PGH COMM FOOD BANKS: $108,798 · Other18 GREATER PGH COMM FOOD BANKSNORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $67,541 · OtherNORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INCJust Harvest-A Center For Action Against Hunger: $40,767 · OtherALLIES FOR HEALTH & WELL BEING: $40,767 · Other+7 more: $123,147 · Other+7 moreWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $90,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHE…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $51,151 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHIL…ANSAR OF PITTSBURGH CORP: $40,000 · Human ServicesANSAR OF PITTSBURGH CO…URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $35,960 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATE…JUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC: $26,550 · Human ServicesJUBILEE ASSOCIATION IN…EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $24,050 · Human ServicesEAST END COOPERATIVE M…RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $24,041 · Human ServicesRAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUN…CASA SAN JOSE: $12,528 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $171,883 · Crime & LegalNEIGHBORHOOD LE…COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT: $30,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY JUSTI…KIDSVOICE: $10,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $5,000 · Crime & LegalGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $72,020 · Food & NutritionHOPE MINISTRIES OF MCKEESPORT INC: $5,812 · Food & NutritionEducation Law Center - PA: $44,500 · EducationPITTSBURGH MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $22,000 · HealthACHIEVA: $13,500 · HealthWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT: $30,000 · Civil Rights
Other$849,441Human Services$304,280Crime & Legal$216,883Food & Nutrition$77,832Education$44,500Health$35,500Civil Rights$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $171,883 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $90,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $72,020 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $67,541 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $51,151 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEducation Law Center - PA: $44,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJust Harvest-A Center For Action Against Hunger: $40,767 over 4y, 75% of budgetANSAR OF PITTSBURGH CORP: $40,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $35,960 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC: $26,550 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $26,541 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFOCUS ON RENEWAL STO-ROX NEIGHBORHOOD CORPORATION: $26,541 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $24,050 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $24,041 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $22,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERSECTION: $18,238 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetACHIEVA: $13,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCASA SAN JOSE: $12,528 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKIDSVOICE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budget1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALLEGHENY COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION: $7,665 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA IMMIGRATION RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pittsburgh Founda…The Heinz EndowmentsHillman Family Founda…The United Way of Sou…Fisa FoundationCentimark FoundationThe Grable FoundationRichard King Mellon F…Pittsburgh Child Guid…Eden Hall FoundationOpportunity FoundationJefferson Regional Fo…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA37.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Hillman Family Foundations · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Fisa Foundation · Centimark Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Pittsburgh Child Guidance Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · Jefferson Regional Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Allegheny County Bar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Allegheny County Bar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Allegheny County Bar Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Allegheny County Bar Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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