Louisiana · Public charity
Louisiana Bar Foundation
The LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION exists to preserve, honor, and improve our system of justice by funding, developing or otherwise promoting efforts which enhance the legal profession, increase public understanding of the legal system and advance the reality of equal justice.
- $16M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,089,490
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 53
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $55M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Louisiana Bar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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 | 61 | $16M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $18M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $8.0M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $7.1M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $4.1M | 5% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $4.7M | 6% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $6.4M | 16% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $6.2M | 15% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acadiana Legal Service Corporation | $27,927,606 | 9 | 49% |
| Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corp | $21,080,487 | 9 | 27% |
| The Pro Bono Project | $1,876,621 | 9 | 41% |
| Lagniappe Law Lab | $1,427,213 | 2 | 71% |
| Baton Rouge Bar Foundation | $1,417,405 | 9 | 80% |
| Shreveport Bar Foundation | $1,254,945 | 9 | 65% |
| Loyola University | $1,183,528 | 5 | 0% |
| The Wellspring Alliance for Families Inc | $1,053,845 | 9 | 5% |
| Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans | $1,029,388 | 9 | 1% |
| Lafayette Parish Bar Foundation | $958,613 | 9 | 87% |
Show all 83 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($809k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Louisiana Bar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 15 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Foundation for Louisiana · Baptist Community Ministries · Louisiana Alliance of Childrens Advocacy Centers · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Christus Health
How this is measured
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About Louisiana Bar Foundation
- How much does Louisiana Bar Foundation give?
- Louisiana Bar Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $16,373,359 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Louisiana Bar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (93%), Human Services (6%), Health (1%).
- Who are Louisiana Bar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Acadiana Legal Service Corporation ($28M), Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corp ($21M), The Pro Bono Project ($1.9M).
- Does Louisiana Bar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Louisiana Bar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation.
- Where is Louisiana Bar Foundation based?
- Louisiana Bar Foundation is based in LA.
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