· Public charity
Montgomery Bar Foundation
A public charity, MONTGOMERY BAR FOUNDATION's mission is to improve, facilitate & support justice & fair treatment for all, & to offer continuing legal education to attorney's practicing law within montgomery county, pennsylvania.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $128,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $154,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,500 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PA | $41,000 |
| MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT | $30,000 |
| VICTIM SERVICES CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC | $10,000 |
| LAUREL HOUSE | $10,000 |
| YOUR WAY HOME MONTGOMERY COUNTY | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER OF MONGOMERY COUNTY | $10,000 |
| MISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $10,000 |
| SENIOR LAW CENTER | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +88% since the first grant, against -27% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- LALEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $279k · revenue +107%
- MCMONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT8× · 2017–2024 · $147k · revenue +88%
SENIORLAW CENTER5× · 2018–2024 · $39k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- MCMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -27%
- NHNorristown Hospitality Centergraduatedone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +37%
- AACLAMOone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -33%
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.
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
The mission of the maryland volunteer lawyers service (mvls) is to remove barriers to justice through free civil legal help, community engagement, and advocacy for equitable laws. (see schedule o for the complete mission statement.)
Safe shores provides survivor-centered intervention, hope and healing for children and families affected by abuse, trauma and violence in the district of columbia, and works to prevent and end child abuse and neglect through promising…
To transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.
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,…
To develop and implement strategies to improve the safety of patient care in maryland. mpsc unites stakeholders to champion patient safety, eliminate preventable harm, and accelerate improvements in safety quality across healthcare.
The women against abuse legal center provides free attorney representation, advocacy and telephone counseling to victims of domestic violence seeking legal protections in philadelphia.
Provide education, advocacy, and support to spanish speaking individuals affected by violence and injustice in virginia to ensure that they can access services to empower them to become happy, healthy, and self- sufficient.
Pirc provides high quality legal services so that vulnerable immigrants and their families in pa have access to justice and a more secure future.
The crime victims' center of chester county, inc. (cvc) is a nonprofit agency providing free, immediate, and confidential crisis response and compassionate support to children and adults impacted by sexual violence and all other crime. we…
The mission is to serve children who are victims of sexual and severe physical abuse through prevention, education, and intervention.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victim Services Center of Montgomery County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aclamo. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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.
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 LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SENIORLAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VICTIM SERVICES CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Norristown Hospitality Center ↗
- Who funds ACLAMO ↗
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: Genuardi Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Vna Foundation of Greater North Penn · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Independence Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Little Tower Foundation · Healthspark Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Montgomery 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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