· Public charity
Chester County Bar Foundation
To promote educational, literacy, scientific and charitable purposes.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PA | $31,000 |
| CRIME VICTIMS CENTER OF CHESTER CO | $17,500 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF CHESTER | $16,750 |
| CHESTER COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION | $16,000 |
| FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE | $13,000 |
| GATEWAY HORSEWORKS | $12,000 |
| SENIORLAW CENTER | $9,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY | $6,500 |
| HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $191k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +105% since the first grant, against +87% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LALEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $218k · revenue +107%
- CVCRIME VICTIMS' CENTER OF CHESTER COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +22%
- DVDomestic Violence Center of Chester County9× · 2017–2025 · $97k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- CCCHESTER COUNTY INTERMEDIATE UNITone grant, 2024 · $11k
- HPHousing Partnership of Chester County Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +87%
- CUCHEYNEY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $7k
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.
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.
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
Center for victims offers a public service in allegheny county by helping individuals, families, and communities heal from the trauma of sexual assault/abuse, intimate partner violence, community violence, and all forms of violence and…
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…
Provides free immigration legal services to immigrants, refugees, foreign-born individuals and their family members who reside in pennsylvania. individuals receiving the services are those who are unable to afford the services of a private…
Clasi provides free civil legal services to people with disabilities; people with low incomes; victims of housing discrimination; older citizens (60 and over); victims of domestic violence; and immigrant victims of crime, abuse and neglect.
To provide civil legal services to women in crisis.
Chartiers believes each individual, regardless of economic status, has a right to achieve his/her highest potential and become a self-sufficient and full participating member of the community.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
The center for community action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of the…
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
To provide high quality civil legal assistance and other services to indigent individuals and families.
The women against abuse legal center provides free attorney representation, advocacy and telephone counseling to victims of domestic violence seeking legal protections in philadelphia.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds CRIME VICTIMS' CENTER OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Domestic Violence Center of Chester County ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HORSEWORKS ↗
- Who funds SENIORLAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS ↗
- Who funds Housing Partnership of Chester County Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The Fund for Women and Girls · United Way of Chester County Inc · Chester County Community Foundation · Independence Foundation · Genuardi Family Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Southern Chester County · The Alliance for Health Equity · Td Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chester County Bar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chester County Bar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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