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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.

$167k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$490kHuman Services$48kPublic Benefit$37kPhilanthropy$20kHousing & Shelter$6k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $153,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $167,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,250 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $109k
$11,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PA$45,000
MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT$16,000
COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY$15,000
THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOUNDATION INC$11,000
LAUREL HOUSE$11,000
MISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$11,000
WOMEN'S CENTER OF MONGOMERY COUNTY$9,000
EPISCOPSAL LEGAL AID$8,500
SENIOR LAW CENTER$8,500
NORRISTOWN HOSPITALITY CENTER$6,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MAIN LINE$6,000
FAMILY SERVICES OF MTG COUNTY$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $247k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOMEN'S CENTER OF MONGOMERY COUNTY: $10k → 7%WOMEN'S CENTER OF MONGOMERY COUNTY: $9k → 7%WOMEN'S CENTER OF MONGOMERY COUNTY: $6k → 7%HIAS PENNSYLVANIA: $5k → 22%HIAS PENNSYLVANIA: $5k → 22%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT: $30k → 7%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT: $20k → 7%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT: $20k → 7%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT: $20k → 7%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT: $16k → 7%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT: $15k → 7%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT: $15k → 7%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT: $15k → 7%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT: $12k → 7%LAUREL HOUSE: $11k → 7%VICTIM SERVICES CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $10k → 7%LAUREL HOUSE: $10k → 7%LAUREL HOUSE: $6k → 7%ACLAMO: $6k → 7%VICTIM SERVICES CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $6k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$645k · 9 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -27% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$645k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
-27%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Human ServicesCrime & LegalReligionCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LA
    LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $324k · revenue +107%
  • MC
    MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +88%
  • SENIORLAW CENTER
    6× · 2018–2025 · $47k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • MC
    MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -27%
  • A
    ACLAMO
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -33%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Women Against Abuse Inc

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…

Human Services
2
Women's Law Project

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…

Civil Rights
3
Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc

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.)

Crime & Legal
4
Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center

Pirc provides high quality legal services so that vulnerable immigrants and their families in pa have access to justice and a more secure future.

Crime & Legal
5
Women Against Abuse Legal Center

The women against abuse legal center provides free attorney representation, advocacy and telephone counseling to victims of domestic violence seeking legal protections in philadelphia.

Crime & Legal
6
Legal Clinic for the Disabled

The legal clinic for the disabled's (lcd) mission is to deliver free, quality legal services to people living with physical and mental health disabilities and the deaf and or hard of hearing community to help them overcome legal obstacles…

Crime & Legal
7
Family and Children's Services of Centra

To transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.

Human Services
8
The Women's Law Center of Md Inc

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,…

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9
Crime Victims' Center of Chester County

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…

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10
The District of Columbia Children's Advocacy Center

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…

Crime & Legal
11
Fair Housing Rights Center in Southeastern Pennsylvania

The organization's programs are designed to counsel and educate fair housing requirements and promote compliance with fair housing laws.

Civil Rights
12
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service of Montgomery County Pa; the most unlike its peers is Episcopal Legal Aid of the Diocese of Pennsylvania Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $323,770 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INCSENIORLAW CENTER: $47,000 · Crime & LegalSENIORLAW CENTERMISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $21,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $8,500 · Crime & LegalMONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT: $163,000 · Human ServicesMONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECTLAUREL HOUSE: $27,000 · Human ServicesLAUREL HOUSEWOMEN'S CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $25,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTYVICTIM SERVICES CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesVICTIM SERVICES CENTER OF MONTGOMERY …HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $58,000 · Public BenefitCOMMITTEE OF SEVENTY: $15,000 · Civil RightsNorristown Hospitality Center: $12,000 · ReligionFAMILY SERVICE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY PA: $6,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE OF THE MAIN LINE: $6,000 · OtherMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Crime & Legal$400,270Human Services$247,000Public Benefit$58,000Civil Rights$15,000Religion$12,000Other$12,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $323,770 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetMONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT: $163,000 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $58,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSENIORLAW CENTER: $47,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE: $27,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVICTIM SERVICES CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNorristown Hospitality Center: $12,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEPISCOPAL LEGAL AID OF THE DIOCESE OF PENNSYLVANIA INC: $8,500 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY PA: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE MAIN LINE: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetACLAMO: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Genuardi Family Found…The Philadelphia Foun…Vna Foundation of Gre…United Way of Greater…Independence Foundati…Td Charitable Foundat…Little Tower Foundati…Healthspark FoundationThe Gordon Charter Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…
Genuardi Family FoundationPA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Montgomery Bar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Montgomery Bar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Montgomery Bar Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Montgomery Bar Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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