· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 91% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Maryland Bar Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 85%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 -28%
Funded once
- TTTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +35%
- 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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 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 ↗
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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Maryland Bar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maryland Bar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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