How much does Mecklenburg Bar Foundation give?

Mecklenburg Bar Foundation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $30,000, out of $40,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Mecklenburg Bar Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Crime & Legal (26%), Health (13%).

Who are Mecklenburg Bar Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Safe Alliance Inc ($48k), Pats Place Child Advocacy Center ($43k), International House of Metrolina Inc ($41k).

Does Mecklenburg Bar Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mecklenburg Bar Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc, Foundation for the Carolinas, Duke Energy Foundation.

Where is Mecklenburg Bar Foundation based?

Mecklenburg Bar Foundation is based in NC.

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North Carolina · Public charity

Mecklenburg Bar Foundation

To advance public understanding and respect for the rule of law and the role of the legal profession; to promote the highest ideals of professionalism, public service and access to the legal system; and to support the charitable and educational goals of the 26th Judicial District Bar and Mecklenburg Bar Association.

$40k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 3
Itemized grants FY2025: 4
Organizations funded FY2024: 75%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $30k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $10,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 15; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $4.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Mecklenburg Bar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionInternationalCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	3	$30k	67%
FY2024	4	$35k	75%
FY2023	4	$38k	100%
FY2022	3	$42k	67%
FY2021	15	$153k	60%
FY2020	6	$64k	17%
FY2019	6	$51k	50%
FY2018	1	$6k	100%

96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$135kCrime & Legal$122kHealth$63kInternational$41kCivil Rights$34kEducation$22kFood & Nutrition$18kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0

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
Safe Alliance Inc	$48,000	4	0%
Pats Place Child Advocacy Center	$42,500	4	1%
International House of Metrolina Inc	$40,500	3	2%
Lift Up Carolinas	$30,000	3	1%
Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition	$25,000	2	0%
Council for Childrens Rights Inc	$24,000	3	0%
Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc	$22,500	2	0%
Classroom Central Inc	$21,500	2	0%
Matthews Help Center	$17,500	2	0%
Crisis Assistance Ministry	$14,000	1	0%

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All grantees of Mecklenburg Bar Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Safe Alliance Inc	$48,000	4	0%
Pats Place Child Advocacy Center	$42,500	4	1%
International House of Metrolina Inc	$40,500	3	2%
Lift Up Carolinas	$30,000	3	1%
Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition	$25,000	2	0%
Council for Childrens Rights Inc	$24,000	3	0%
Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc	$22,500	2	0%
Classroom Central Inc	$21,500	2	0%
Matthews Help Center	$17,500	2	0%
Crisis Assistance Ministry	$14,000	1	0%
Charlotte Rescue Mission	$14,000	1	0%
Mecklenburg County Bar	$11,598	2	n/a
Metrolina Association for the Blind Inc	$11,500	1	0%
Latin American Coalition	$10,000	1	1%
Promise Resource Network Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Larry Kings Clubhouse Childrens Play and Care Center	$10,000	1	4%
The Havens Inc	$10,000	1	3%
RAIN Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Bright Blessings	$10,000	1	1%
Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Bags of Hope	$10,000	1	2%
The Relatives Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Alexander Youth Network	$7,500	1	0%
Angels & Sparrows Soup Kitchen Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Still Hope Enrichment Agency	$7,500	1	5%
Psychology for All Inc	$7,500	1	n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mecklenburg Bar Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

United Way of Greater Charlotte IncNC38.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · True Homes Foundation Inc · Speedway Children's Charities · Synchrony Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Gambrell Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Mecklenburg Bar Foundation

How much does Mecklenburg Bar Foundation give?: Mecklenburg Bar Foundation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $30,000, out of $40,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mecklenburg Bar Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Crime & Legal (26%), Health (13%).
Who are Mecklenburg Bar Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Safe Alliance Inc ($48k), Pats Place Child Advocacy Center ($43k), International House of Metrolina Inc ($41k).
Does Mecklenburg Bar Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mecklenburg Bar Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc, Foundation for the Carolinas, Duke Energy Foundation.
Where is Mecklenburg Bar Foundation based?: Mecklenburg Bar Foundation is based in NC.