Texas · Public charity
Houston Bar Association
Schedule OTo serve the needs of Houston-area lawyers and enhance the legal profession through promoting professionalism, access to justice, the rule of law, equality, and inclusion in the legal profession, legal education for the profession and the public, and service to the community for law-related high-impact and high-involvement…
- $200k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $154k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $116,451
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $116,451
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 3
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Houston Bar Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 2 | $154k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $58k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $102k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $79k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $48k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $149k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $70k | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Bar Foundation | $731,590 | 9 | 5% |
| Federal Bar Association | $38,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc | $15,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Paw and Order Friends of Harris County Animal Cruelty Task Force | $7,641 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Houston Law Foundation | $7,089 | 1 | 0% |
About Houston Bar Association
- How much does Houston Bar Association give?
- Houston Bar Association reported 2 itemized grants totaling $154,451, out of $199,697 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Houston Bar Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (97%), Housing & Shelter (2%), Animals (1%).
- Who are Houston Bar Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Houston Bar Foundation ($732k), Federal Bar Association ($38k), Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc ($16k).
- Does Houston Bar Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Houston Bar Association based?
- Houston Bar Association is based in TX.
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