· Public charity
Indiana Bar Foundation
The INDIANA BAR FOUNDATION (ibf) is a charitable foundation dedicated to strengthening access to justice and appreciation for the rule of law in indiana.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $658k
- $250k+5 grants · $8.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA LEGAL SERVICES INC | $2,607,089 |
| PRO BONO INDIANA INC | $2,524,414 |
| LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP SMALL CLAIMS COUR | $1,492,890 |
| INDIANAPOLIS LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $1,083,281 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN LEGAL CLINIC | $597,251 |
| VOLUNTEER LAWYER PROGRAM OF NE INDI | $170,000 |
| ABILITY ALLIES | $120,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF EVANSVILLE | $98,449 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES | $90,000 |
| CENTER FOR VICTIM AND HUMAN RIGHTS | $90,000 |
| LEGAL AID CORP OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY | $89,638 |
| METRO COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $35,000 |
| KIDS VOICES OF INDIANA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES ANALYSIS LLC | $21,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -59% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PBPRO BONO INDIANA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $10.0M · revenue ×18 · 89% of their budget
- ILIndiana Legal Services Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +145%
- ILINDIANAPOLIS LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +100% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
- KIKIOSK INFORMATION SYSTEMS INCone grant, 2023 · $1.3M
- KKIOWAREone grant, 2023 · $168k
- NCNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIPone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -59%
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.
Linn County Advocate, Inc., provides quality legal representation for indigent clients in criminal and juvenile cases at the state court level in Linn, Johnson, Benton, and Jones Counties in the state of Iowa.
Provide direct legal services on a sliding scale with a focus on the low income community of Northwest Indiana. These services include:Family Law, Immigration Law and Criminal Law.Family-based immigration, applications for lawful permanent…
The indiana justice project is a non-partisan, non-profit legal advocacy organization. we use all available legal tools to ensure equal justice and opportunity for all hoosiers. we focus on health, housing, and food insecurity.
Inland Counties Legal Services (ICLS) mission is to pursue justice and equality for low-income individuals through counsel, advice, advocacy, and community education, treating all with dignity and respect. Over the last six decades, ICLS…
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
Legal representation of dakota county residents with financial need.
To provide free legal services to low-income citizens of jefferson county
Toledo Legal Aid Society provides legal representation for indigent clients that are charged with criminal, traffic, or juvenile offenses for which the penalty or any possible adjudication includes the potential loss of liberty.
Idaho legal aid services inc is a statewide nonprofit law firm dedicated to providing equal access for low-income people through quality advocacy and education
Central Wisconsin Community Law is a nonprofit law firm which represents indigent people mostly in criminal cases.
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 39 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 PRO BONO INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN LEGAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Volunteer Lawyer Program of Northeast Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY LEGAL SERVICES OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Society of Evansville Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID CORP OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEER LAWYER NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR VICTIM AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds LEGAL VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT 6 ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds NWI VOLUNTEER LAWYERS INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Indiana Pro Bono Referrals Inc ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT 10 PRO BONO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID DISTRICT ELEVEN INC ↗
- Who funds METRO COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds INDIANA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds LAW SCHOOL LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CIVIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds WHITEWATER VALLEY DISTRICT 9 PRO BONO COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' VOICE OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEADOWS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Clowes Fund Incorporated · Hoover Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Indiana Bar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Indiana Bar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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