Texas · Public charity
Houston Bar Foundation
The Houston Bar Foundation supports programs that help provide legal representation to the indigent, promote community understanding of our legal system, and foster the administration of justice.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $51,238
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,645,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $26M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Houston 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; $109k 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 | 5 | $1.9M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $1.2M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $1.6M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $1.5M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $1.3M | 40% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $1.2M | 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 Volunteer Lawyers Program Inc | $11,019,671 | 9 | 58% |
| The Center for Pursuit | $534,208 | 8 | 1% |
| Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc | $370,114 | 6 | 0% |
| Houston Independent Sch Dist | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Harris County | $27,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Houston Area Women's Center | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| HAY Center Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Houston Bar Association Auxiliary Charitable Fund Inc | $19,494 | 3 | n/a |
| Combined Arms | $17,469 | 2 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program Inc | $11,019,671 | 9 | 58% |
| The Center for Pursuit | $534,208 | 8 | 1% |
| Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc | $370,114 | 6 | 0% |
| Houston Independent Sch Dist | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Harris County | $27,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Houston Area Women's Center | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| HAY Center Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Houston Bar Association Auxiliary Charitable Fund Inc | $19,494 | 3 | n/a |
| Combined Arms | $17,469 | 2 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Center for Urban Transformation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Houston Bar Association | $7,016 | 1 | 0% |
| Harris Resource Foundation | $4,417 | 2 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($124k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Houston Bar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Houston Food Bank · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Houston Bar Foundation
- How much does Houston Bar Foundation give?
- Houston Bar Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $1,864,208 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Houston Bar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (92%), Health (4%), Housing & Shelter (3%).
- Who are Houston Bar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program Inc ($11M), The Center for Pursuit ($534k), Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc ($370k).
- Does Houston Bar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Houston Bar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Houston Endowment Inc, The Houston Food Bank.
- Where is Houston Bar Foundation based?
- Houston Bar Foundation is based in TX.
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