· Public charity
Maryland Bar Foundation
To foster and maintain the honor and integrity of the profession of the law, to improve and to facilitate the administration of justice, and to promote the study of the law and law research, and sharing legal knowledge.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of MARYLAND BAR FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $26,618 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $69,426 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,808 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE | $8,618 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND | $7,300 |
| MARYLAND YOUTH & THE LAW | $5,500 |
| PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER | $5,200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Maryland Bar Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MYMARYLAND YOUTH AND THE LAW INC7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue -25%
- PBPRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +498%
- TNTHE NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE2× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue -8%
Funded once
- TTTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +2%
- CRCONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +105%
- YOYWCA of Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Maryland Incone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Community law center is maryland's only legal services organization dedicated solely to strengthening neighborhoods and the nonprofit sector. for over 30 years, community law center's attorneys have been providing learning opportunities…
Our mission is to ensure the physical safety, economic security, and autonomy of women throughout the state. the women's law center of md works towards this goal by providing direct legal representation, information and referral services,…
The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center provides free legal services through pro bono lawyers to low-income individuals, nonprofit organizations and small businesses primarily in the District of Columbia. The Pro Bono Center also recruits and trains…
The public justice center (pjc) pursues systemic change to build a just society. (see schedule o)the pjc uses legal advocacy tools to pursue social justice, economic and race equity, and fundamental human rights for people who are…
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
To ensure low-income marylanders have access to stable, efficient and effective civil legal assistance through the distribution of funds to nonprofit legal services organizations.
We advocate with and for marylanders experiencing poverty to achieve equity and social justice through free civil legal services, community collaboration, and systems change.
The district of columbia bar foundation was established to raise funds for organizations in the district that provide hands-on legal services to residents who are unable to afford legal assistance.
Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.
Our mission is to provide quality representation and zealous advocacy to each client, to conduct our work with professionalism and dignity, and to promote improvement in the administration of justice.
Is an organization of legal professionals committed to providing continuing legal education and services to its members, advocating for its members, promoting professionalism, equality, and diversity, fostering collegiality, advancing the…
The montgomery county, maryland, bar foundation shall have the specific purpose to organize, operate, and contribute to programs dedicated to the promotion of social welfare, the elimination of prejudice and discrimination, the protection…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United Way of Central Maryland Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MARYLAND YOUTH AND THE LAW INC ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND VOLUNTEER LAWYERS SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Maryland Bar Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Conflict Resolution Center of Baltimore County Inc — 72% of income from government
- Civil Justice Inc — 23% of income from government
- Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland Inc — 11% of income from government
- Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc — 7% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.