Ohio · Public charity
Cincinnati Bar Foundation
Promoting justice and changing lives through the law with the desire to serve the legal profession, the justice system and the Greater Cincinnati community. The Cincinnati Bar Foundation concentrates grant-making efforts in the following four areas: 1. Knowledge and understanding of and respect for the law in the community, particularly…
- $169k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $102k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $31,737
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Cincinnati Bar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $102k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $81k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $83k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $55k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $67k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $57k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $102k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $72k | 78% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati Bar Association | $191,038 | 8 | 1% |
| Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati | $129,750 | 8 | 0% |
| ProKids | $90,720 | 7 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Works | $37,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Summer Work Experience In Law Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 28% |
| Pro Bono Partnership of Ohio | $30,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Northern Kentucky Childrens Law Center Inc | $27,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Ohio Justice and Policy Center | $23,925 | 3 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio | $20,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio | $20,500 | 3 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Cincinnati Bar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 Greater Cincinnati Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Millstone Fund · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ohio State Bar Foundation · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Interact for Change · Spaulding Foundation
How this is measured
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About Cincinnati Bar Foundation
- How much does Cincinnati Bar Foundation give?
- Cincinnati Bar Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $102,237, out of $168,667 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cincinnati Bar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (77%), Human Services (10%), Employment (6%).
- Who are Cincinnati Bar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cincinnati Bar Association ($191k), Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati ($130k), ProKids ($91k).
- Does Cincinnati Bar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cincinnati Bar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, United Way of Greater Cincinnati, Millstone Fund.
- Where is Cincinnati Bar Foundation based?
- Cincinnati Bar Foundation is based in OH.
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