How much does Ohio State Bar Foundation give?

Ohio State Bar Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $984,763 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Ohio State Bar Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (52%), Education (13%), Public Benefit (9%).

Who are Ohio State Bar Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Law and Leadership Institute LLC ($1.0M), The Ohio Center for Law Related Education ($925k), Ohio State Bar Association ($341k).

Does Ohio State Bar Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ohio State Bar Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The George Gund Foundation, Columbus Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation.

Where is Ohio State Bar Foundation based?

Ohio State Bar Foundation is based in OH.

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Ohio State Bar Foundation

The OHIO STATE BAR FOUNDATION is a nonprofit corporation under ohio law, organized for educational, literary, scientific and charitable purposes. It is a membership organization of attorneys and judges, and is considered "the professional honorary of ohio lawyers." the ohiostate bar foundation fulfills its mission of promoting public…

$985k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 21
Grants FY2024: 33
Organizations funded FY2023: 36%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $35,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $160,000
Organizations funded a year: 18 to 33; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $62M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Ohio State Bar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCrime & LegalEducationCivil RightsHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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
FY2024still arriving	21	$985k	24%
FY2023	33	$1.1M	36%
FY2022	30	$1.4M	50%
FY2021	27	$1.2M	37%
FY2020	24	$1.1M	38%
FY2019	19	$843k	58%
FY2018	18	$855k	67%
FY2017	19	$771k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$4.2MEducation$1.0MPublic Benefit$717kHuman Services$666kCivil Rights$421kCommunity Improvement$350kHealth$334kYouth Development$150kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Law and Leadership Institute LLC	$1,000,403	8	34%
The Ohio Center for Law Related Education	$925,000	8	35%
Ohio State Bar Association	$341,200	6	1%
Ohio Legal Help	$310,000	5	13%
Cincinnati Development Fund	$299,988	3	2%
Ohio State University Foundation	$264,165	5	0%
The Legal Aid Society of Columbus	$225,716	5	2%
Ohio Alliance of YMCA's Foundation	$222,975	5	8%
Legal Aid of Southeast and Central Ohio	$221,300	7	1%
Equality Ohio Education Fund	$207,200	5	3%

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All grantees of Ohio State Bar Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Law and Leadership Institute LLC	$1,000,403	8	34%
The Ohio Center for Law Related Education	$925,000	8	35%
Ohio State Bar Association	$341,200	6	1%
Ohio Legal Help	$310,000	5	13%
Cincinnati Development Fund	$299,988	3	2%
Ohio State University Foundation	$264,165	5	0%
The Legal Aid Society of Columbus	$225,716	5	2%
Ohio Alliance of YMCA's Foundation	$222,975	5	8%
Legal Aid of Southeast and Central Ohio	$221,300	7	1%
Equality Ohio Education Fund	$207,200	5	3%
Summer Work Experience In Law Inc	$200,000	3	45%
Catholic Charities Corporation	$192,500	5	0%
Pro Bono Partnership of Ohio	$179,345	4	9%
Health Policy Institute of Ohio	$135,000	5	2%
Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court	$133,310	1	n/a
Kent State University Foundation	$118,837	2	0%
Ohio Access to Justice Foundation	$107,392	2	1%
Case Western Reserve University	$100,000	1	0%
The University of Cincinnati Foundation	$100,000	3	0%
United Way of Greater Cleveland	$100,000	2	0%
Innovation Ohio Education Fund	$100,000	2	6%
Make a Day Foundation	$92,000	2	14%
Ohio Domestic Violence Network	$91,350	3	1%
Ohio Family Care Association	$89,410	2	59%
American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education	$80,000	1	0%
Legal Aid of Western Ohio Inc	$80,000	2	1%
Ao Advocating Opportunity Inc	$77,670	1	9%
Ohio Justice and Policy Center	$76,670	2	2%
National Center for State Courts	$76,489	1	0%
Advocates for Basic Legal Equality Inc	$74,800	2	1%
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc	$74,550	2	61%
Ohio Disability Rights Law & Policy Center Inc	$72,000	2	1%
Immigrant & Refugee Law Center	$71,500	2	24%
Mental Health & Addiction Advocacy Coalition	$71,400	2	5%
Ohio Victim Witness Association Inc	$66,111	1	15%
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland	$65,000	3	0%
Health Disparities Collaborative of Ohio	$65,000	3	30%
Ohio Voice	$56,500	4	1%
Mid-Ohio Psychological Services In	$55,000	2	1%
Legal Works Inc	$55,000	3	9%
Council on American-Islamic Relations-Oh	$55,000	2	2%
The University of Toledo Foundation	$52,770	1	0%
Young Women's Christian Association	$50,625	2	0%
Frederick Douglass Project for Justice	$50,000	1	13%
Slavic Village Development	$50,000	1	2%
Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers	$50,000	1	2%
The Ohio State University	$49,258	1	n/a
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northeast Ohio Inc	$45,679	1	1%
Operation Legal Help Ohio	$44,860	2	32%
Women Helping Women	$42,000	3	1%
Benjamin Rose Institute	$40,000	1	0%
Juvenile Justice Coalition	$40,000	1	14%
Northern Kentucky Childrens Law Center Inc	$39,400	2	2%
American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation Inc	$35,000	1	0%
Adopt A Class Foundation Inc	$33,000	2	4%
Lorain County Bar Association	$30,000	1	18%
The Dick and Jane Project	$30,000	1	2%
Casa of Franklin County - Columbus	$26,670	1	n/a
The Ohio University Foundation	$26,636	1	0%
Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Foundation	$25,000	1	3%
International Welcome Center	$25,000	2	6%
Web Wise Enterprises Inc	$25,000	1	38%
Ohio Humanities Council	$25,000	1	1%
Do It for James Foundation	$25,000	1	9%
Portage County Adult Probation Depa	$24,000	1	n/a
Dominican Sisters of Peace Inc	$23,700	2	n/a
University of Mount Union	$22,500	1	0%
Justicemobile Inc	$21,500	1	n/a
Nami Ohio	$20,000	1	1%
Capital University	$20,000	1	0%
Pro Seniors Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Freedom a la Cart	$19,500	1	1%
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio	$19,173	3	0%
City of Akron	$18,000	1	n/a
Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence	$18,000	1	1%
Towards Employment Inc	$16,100	1	0%
Crime Victim Services Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Athens County Casagal Program	$15,000	1	n/a
Talbert House	$15,000	1	0%
Disability Rights Ohio	$12,200	1	n/a
Jewish Family Service of Akron Ohio	$11,925	1	3%
University of Cincinnati	$11,000	1	n/a
The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education	$10,000	1	0%
The Ability Center of Greater Toledo	$10,000	1	0%
The Florida Bar Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Guardian Support Services Inc	$10,000	1	9%
Homes on The Hill Community Development Corp	$10,000	1	2%
Texas Bar Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Childrens Advocacy Center of Guernsey County	$9,875	1	7%
The Childrens Advocacy Center of Portage County Inc	$9,700	1	3%
Casa Board Volunteer Association In	$8,600	1	3%
Judah Performing Arts Company	$8,000	1	62%
Scranton Road Ministries CDC	$5,000	1	1%

Ohio State Bar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 83 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 83.

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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.

The George Gund FoundationOH42.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The George Gund Foundation · Columbus Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ohio Access to Justice Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Cincinnati Bar Foundation · Women's Fund of Central Ohio · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Ohio Capital Impact Corporation · Murray and Agnes Seasongood Good Government Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care 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 Ohio State Bar Foundation

How much does Ohio State Bar Foundation give?: Ohio State Bar Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $984,763 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ohio State Bar Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (52%), Education (13%), Public Benefit (9%).
Who are Ohio State Bar Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Law and Leadership Institute LLC ($1.0M), The Ohio Center for Law Related Education ($925k), Ohio State Bar Association ($341k).
Does Ohio State Bar Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ohio State Bar Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The George Gund Foundation, Columbus Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation.
Where is Ohio State Bar Foundation based?: Ohio State Bar Foundation is based in OH.