Kansas · Public charity
Kansas Bar Foundation
To serve the citizens of kansas and the legal profession through funding charitable and educational projects that foster the welfare, honor and integrity of the legal system by improving its accessibility, equality and uniformity, by enhancing public opinion of the role lawyers play in our society.
- $500k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $455k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $29,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $275,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Kansas Bar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 4 | $455k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $367k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $348k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $429k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $376k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $379k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $361k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $281k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas Legal Services Inc | $2,734,050 | 8 | 5% |
| Kansas Casa Association Inc | $73,523 | 4 | 14% |
| National Institute for Trial Advocacy | $58,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kansas Bar Association | $48,170 | 3 | 2% |
| Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence | $33,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Disability Rights Center of Kansas Inc | $15,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| El Centro Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault | $4,273 | 1 | 0% |
| Safehome Inc | $4,273 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas Legal Services Inc | $2,734,050 | 8 | 5% |
| Kansas Casa Association Inc | $73,523 | 4 | 14% |
| National Institute for Trial Advocacy | $58,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kansas Bar Association | $48,170 | 3 | 2% |
| Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence | $33,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Disability Rights Center of Kansas Inc | $15,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| El Centro Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault | $4,273 | 1 | 0% |
| Safehome Inc | $4,273 | 1 | 0% |
| Fosteradopt Connect Inc | $4,273 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope House Inc | $4,273 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kansas Bar Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Sunderland Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The Shumaker Family Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Kansas Bar Foundation
- How much does Kansas Bar Foundation give?
- Kansas Bar Foundation reported 5 itemized grants totaling $455,000, out of $499,826 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Kansas Bar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (98%), Human Services (1%), Civil Rights (1%).
- Who are Kansas Bar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kansas Legal Services Inc ($2.7M), Kansas Casa Association Inc ($74k), National Institute for Trial Advocacy ($58k).
- Does Kansas Bar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kansas Bar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oppenstein Brothers Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc.
- Where is Kansas Bar Foundation based?
- Kansas Bar Foundation is based in KS.
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