· Public charity
Hillsborough County Bar Foundation
The foundation is operated for charitable,scientific and educatioanl purposes.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SPRING OF TAMPA BAY | $20,000 |
| CORSSROADS FOR FLORIDA KIDS | $20,000 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| BAY AREA LEGAL SERVICES INC | $15,000 |
| WFCTA - JUSTICE RESTORATION CENTER | $12,500 |
| ST MICHAEL'S LEGAL FOR WOMEN & CHI | $12,500 |
| GIFT OF ADOPTION - FLORIDA CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| HEART GALLERY OF TAMPA | $10,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BABAY AREA LEGAL SERVICES INC7× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +76%
- TSTHE SPRING OF TAMPA BAY INC7× · 2018–2025 · $135k · revenue +94%
- CFCROSSROADS FOR FLORIDA KIDS INC7× · 2018–2025 · $135k · revenue +730% · 62% of their budget
Funded once
- MMMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $28k
- VFVOICES FOR CHILDREN OF TAMPA BAY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +185%
- GOGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +132%
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.
Legal representation of children.
Providing compassion, respect, and loving care to each individual on their unique adoption journey. We commit to honoring and nurturing expectant mothers through pregnancy, birth, and life after placement.
Child Advocacy Services
To provide dedicated volunteers to advocate in court for the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect.
A comprehensive, child-friendly facility where professionals from law enforcement, medical, child protection and therapeutic services collaborate to meet the individual needs of child victims and break the cycle of abuse.
Advocate in the judicial system for the best interest of victims of abuse and neglect in foster care, giving the child a voice in court and moving the child to a safe and permanent home.
Help and heal the heartacheand pain of the abused.
To represent the best interests of children involved in civil proceedings due to abuse and/or neglect. court appointed special advocate associations support and promote court-appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children…
helping kids find their parents or legal custodians
Advocacy for victims of child abuse
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 BAY AREA LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPRING OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR FLORIDA KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Voice for Children Inc AKA Voices for Children of Florida ↗
- Who funds Are You Safe Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST FLORIDA CENTER FOR TRAFFICKING ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Heart Gallery of Tampa 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: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · New York Yankees Tampa Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hillsborough County Bar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hillsborough County Bar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Spring of Tampa Bay Inc: 33% of income from government
- Bay Area Legal Services Inc: 14% of income from government
How this is measured
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