Georgia · Public charity
Georgia Bar Foundation Inc
The foundation is organized pursuant to the georgia nonprofit code. The purposes for which the foundation shall be operated and formed are to receive and manage interest on lawyer trust accounts (iolta) funds, funds from other sources,funds of real or personal property, including the income therefrom, primarily for funding legal…
- $11M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,050,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Georgia Bar Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k 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 | 43 | $11M | 42% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $9.2M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $4.5M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $2.8M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $3.6M | 5% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $2.3M | 11% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $4.7M | 46% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $4.3M | 53% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Legal Services Program Inc | $17,784,695 | 9 | 18% |
| Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc | $12,113,432 | 9 | 23% |
| Georgia Civil Justice Foundation Inc | $4,652,436 | 9 | 94% |
| Equal Justice Works | $2,600,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation In | $1,835,000 | 9 | 8% |
| The Georgia Heirs Property Law Center Inc | $1,599,494 | 7 | 41% |
| Truancy Intervention Project Georgia | $1,294,000 | 9 | 56% |
| Georgia Appleseed Inc | $860,000 | 8 | 21% |
| The Georgia Appellate Practice & Educational Resource Center Inc | $817,500 | 7 | 11% |
| Georgia Asylum & Immigration Network Inc | $723,000 | 8 | 5% |
Show all 59 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Georgia Bar Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Imlay Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Equal Justice Works · Thalia & Michael C Carlos Foundation In · The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc
How this is measured
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About Georgia Bar Foundation Inc
- How much does Georgia Bar Foundation Inc give?
- Georgia Bar Foundation Inc reported 43 grants totaling $11,258,966 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Georgia Bar Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (96%), Human Services (1%), Health (1%).
- Who are Georgia Bar Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Georgia Legal Services Program Inc ($18M), Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc ($12M), Georgia Civil Justice Foundation Inc ($4.7M).
- Does Georgia Bar Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Georgia Bar Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Georgia Power Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Tr Uw Charles I Branan.
- Where is Georgia Bar Foundation Inc based?
- Georgia Bar Foundation Inc is based in GA.
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