Michigan · Public charity
Oakland County Bar Foundation
The Oakland County Bar Foundation is dedicated to ensuring access to justice and an understanding of the law in our community.
- $200k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $190k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $52,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Oakland County Bar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 8 | $190k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $167k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $164k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $182k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $160k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $169k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $241k | 62% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $169k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Legal Aid | $444,750 | 8 | 1% |
| Oakland County Bar Association | $272,145 | 8 | 5% |
| Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center | $155,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Carehouse of Oakland County Inc | $130,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Legal Aid and Defender Association Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Beaumont Health Foundation | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Michigan Center for Civic Education | $51,500 | 7 | 14% |
| Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Detroit Mercy | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Michigan Community Resources | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Oakland County 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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Michigan State Bar Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Butzel Long Charitable Trust · Ford Philanthropy · DTE Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Oakland County Bar Foundation
- How much does Oakland County Bar Foundation give?
- Oakland County Bar Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $189,880, out of $199,880 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Oakland County Bar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (90%), Health (3%), Public Benefit (3%).
- Who are Oakland County Bar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lakeshore Legal Aid ($445k), Oakland County Bar Association ($272k), Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center ($155k).
- Does Oakland County Bar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Oakland County Bar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Michigan State Bar Foundation, United Way for Southeastern Michigan.
- Where is Oakland County Bar Foundation based?
- Oakland County Bar Foundation is based in MI.
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