Minnesota · Public charity
Minnesota State Bar Foundation
The MINNESOTA STATE BAR FOUNDATION mobilizes legal community philanthropy to achieve access to justice for all minnesotans.
- $198k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $84k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $61,746
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Minnesota State Bar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $84k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $45k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $130k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $613k | 91% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $30k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $17k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $23k | 25% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota State Bar Association | $87,144 | 5 | 1% |
| Loan Repayment Assistance Program of Minnesota Inc | $86,000 | 8 | 17% |
| Minnesota Justice Foundation | $61,300 | 9 | 3% |
| Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance | $53,998 | 3 | 0% |
| Children's Law Center of Minnesota | $53,010 | 1 | 5% |
| Legal Assistance of Olmsted County | $47,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Legal Aid Service of Northeastern Minnesota | $43,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Legal Services of Northwest Minnesota | $41,043 | 2 | 1% |
| Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc | $40,500 | 2 | 1% |
| The Advocates For Human Rights | $40,000 | 1 | 2% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Minnesota State 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: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fredrikson & Byron Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Minnesota Justice Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Hennepin County Bar Foundation · Robins Kaplan Foundation
How this is measured
About Minnesota State Bar Foundation
- How much does Minnesota State Bar Foundation give?
- Minnesota State Bar Foundation reported 4 itemized grants totaling $84,246, out of $197,746 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Minnesota State Bar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (77%), Human Services (10%), Housing & Shelter (6%).
- Who are Minnesota State Bar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Minnesota State Bar Association ($87k), Loan Repayment Assistance Program of Minnesota Inc ($86k), Minnesota Justice Foundation ($61k).
- Does Minnesota State Bar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota State Bar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Minnesota State Bar Foundation based?
- Minnesota State Bar Foundation is based in MN.
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