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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.

$985k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$4.2MEducation$1.0MPublic Benefit$717kHuman Services$666kCivil Rights$421kCommunity Improvement$350kHealth$334kYouth Development$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $299k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $679k
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAW AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$160,000
OHIO CENTER FOR LAW RELATED EDUCATION$128,500
SUMMER WORK EXPERIENCE IN LAW INC$100,000
OHIO VICTIM WITNESS ASSOCIATION$66,111
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$63,832
PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF OHIO$60,145
FREDERICK DOUGLASS PROJECT FOR JUSTIC$50,000
OHIO ALLIANCE OF YMCAS FOUNDATION$50,000
HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE OF OHIO$35,000
MID-OHIO PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES INC$35,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION$35,000
DICK & JANE PROJECT$30,000
OHIO LEGAL HELP$25,000
EQUALITY OHIO EDUCATION FUND$25,000
PORTAGE COUNTY JUVENILE COURT$24,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $943k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALL CHOICES MATTER: $25k → 9%MAKE A DAY FOUNDATION: $42k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $75k → 17%ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $10k → 18%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF AKRON: $12k → 13%GUARDIAN SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $10k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $60k → 17%THE INTERNATIONAL WELCOME CENTER: $15k → 13%TALBERT HOUSE: $15k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $35k → 17%ADVOCATING OPPORTUNITY INC: $50k → 18%THE INTERNATIONAL WELCOME CENTER: $10k → 13%PRO SENIORS: $20k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $8k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $15k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $6k → 16%ADVOCATING OPPORTUNITY INC: $28k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $5k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $8k → 17%BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE ON AGING: $40k → 17%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $30k → 15%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $21k → 15%OHIO ALLIANCE OF YMCAS FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%OHIO ALLIANCE OF YMCAS FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%OHIO ALLIANCE OF YMCA'S FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%OHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $34k → 15%OHIO ALLIANCE OF YMCA'S FOUNDATION: $38k → 15%OHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $32k → 15%OHIO ALLIANCE OF YMCA'S FOUNDATION: $35k → 15%OHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $25k → 15%MAKE A DAY FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%JUVENILE JUSTICE COALITION: $40k → 15%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 43 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
45

Total granted

$6.7M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+34%

Still filing today

95%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationCivil 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LA
    Law and Leadership Institute LLC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +34% · 34% of their budget
  • TO
    THE OHIO CENTER FOR LAW RELATED EDUCATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $925k · revenue +0% · 35% of their budget
  • OL
    OHIO LEGAL HELP
    5× · 2019–2024 · $310k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • CC
    CUYAHOGA COUNTY DOMESTIC RELATIONS COURT
    one grant, 2022 · $133k
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +34%
  • AB
    American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Educationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $80k · revenue +37%
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
Justice League

The mission of Ohio Crime Victim Justice Center (OCVJC) is to ensure that the constitutional and statutory rights of Ohio crime victims are protected and enforced in state and federal jurisdictions in all 88 Ohio counties. To fulfill this…

Crime & Legal
2
Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati

To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.

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3
The Toledo Legal Aid Society

Toledo Legal Aid Society provides legal representation for indigent clients that are charged with criminal, traffic, or juvenile offenses for which the penalty or any possible adjudication includes the potential loss of liberty.

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4
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
5
Legal Defenders Office of Summit County Ohio Inc

To provide legal representation to indigent persons for the citizens of Summit County, Ohio.

Crime & Legal
6
Cleveland Jobs With Justice

To work as a coalition of labor unions, community organzation, and religious community to raise the public awarness of and build campaigns to promote workers rights an social justice issues.

Education
7
Ohio Debate Commission Inc

Our mission is to foster fair and substantive debates that encourage participation in our democracy, and our vision is of a stronger Ohio, with well informed voters and highly qualified public servants, candidates, and elected officials.

Civil Rights
8
Cincinnati Bar Association

To promote professional excellence, foster justice, serve our members and educate the public.

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9
Ohio Chamber of Commerce

As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.

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10
Ohio Lawyers Assistance Program Inc

The mission of the Ohio Lawyers Assistance Program, Inc is to inform members of the Bar concerning alcoholism, chemical dependency, and mental illness, and to provide services through education, intervention, advocacy and support for those…

Arts & Culture
11
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
12
Ohio Womens Alliance

The Ohio Womens Alliance is a statewide membership of grassroots leaders, organizers, community builders and activists creating a better Ohio for all through a reproductive justice lens.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence; the most unlike its peers is Judah Performing Arts Company. 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

83 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. 83 of the 93 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/83
Grantees still filing
60/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE OHIO CENTER FOR LAW RELATED EDUCATION: $925,000 · OtherTHE OHIO CENTER FOR LAW RELATED EDUCA…OHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION: $341,200 · OtherOHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATIONTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS: $225,716 · OtherTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF COLUMBUSCUYAHOGA COUNTY DOMESTIC RELATIONS COURT: $133,310 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $100,000 · Other+27 more: $897,498 · Other+27 moreLaw and Leadership Institute LLC: $1,000,403 · EducationLaw and Leadership Institut…OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $264,165 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUND…Summer Work Experience In Law Inc: $200,000 · EducationSummer Work Experience In L…KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $118,837 · EducationKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUND…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationInnovation Ohio Education Fund: $100,000 · Education+7 more: $224,906 · Education+7 moreOHIO LEGAL HELP: $310,000 · Crime & LegalOHIO LEGAL HELPLEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO: $221,300 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF SOUTH…PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF OHIO: $179,345 · Crime & LegalPRO BONO PARTNERSH…Ohio Access to Justice Foundation: $107,392 · Crime & LegalOhio Access to Jus…American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education: $80,000 · Crime & LegalAmerican Bar Assoc…LEGAL AID OF WESTERN OHIO INC: $80,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF WESTE…NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS: $76,489 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL CENTER FO…Immigrant & Refugee Law Center: $71,500 · Crime & LegalLEGAL WORKS INC: $55,000 · Crime & LegalFREDERICK DOUGLASS PROJECT FOR JUSTICE: $50,000 · Crime & Legal+7 more: $118,975 · Crime & Legal+7 moreOhio Alliance of YMCA's Foundation: $222,975 · Human ServicesOhio Alliance…CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $192,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHAR…MAKE A DAY FOUNDATION: $92,000 · Human ServicesMAKE A DAY FO…OHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $91,350 · Human ServicesOHIO DOMESTIC…AO ADVOCATING OPPORTUNITY INC: $77,670 · Human ServicesAO ADVOCATING…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $50,625 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S…BENJAMIN ROSE INSTITUTE: $40,000 · Human ServicesJUVENILE JUSTICE COALITION: $40,000 · Human Services+8 more: $136,098 · Human Services+8 moreEquality Ohio Education Fund: $207,200 · Civil RightsOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER: $76,670 · Civil RightsCentral Ohio Workers Center Inc: $74,550 · Civil RightsOHIO DISABILITY RIGHTS LAW & POLICY CENTER INC: $72,000 · Civil RightsCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS-OH: $55,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $8,600 · Civil RightsHEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE OF OHIO: $135,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION ADVOCACY COALITION: $71,400 · HealthOhio Victim Witness Association Inc: $66,111 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC: $45,679 · HealthDO IT FOR JAMES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthOHIO ALLIANCE TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $18,000 · HealthCINCINNATI DEVELOPMENT FUND: $299,988 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,722,724Education$2,008,311Crime & Legal$1,350,001Human Services$943,218Civil Rights$529,020Health$361,190Housing & Shelter$299,988

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLaw and Leadership Institute LLC: $1,000,403 over 8y, 34% of budgetTHE OHIO CENTER FOR LAW RELATED EDUCATION: $925,000 over 8y, 35% of budgetOHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION: $341,200 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetOHIO LEGAL HELP: $310,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetCINCINNATI DEVELOPMENT FUND: $299,988 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $264,165 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS: $225,716 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetOhio Alliance of YMCA's Foundation: $222,975 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetLEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO: $221,300 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetEquality Ohio Education Fund: $207,200 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetSummer Work Experience In Law Inc: $200,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $192,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF OHIO: $179,345 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetHEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE OF OHIO: $135,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $118,837 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOhio Access to Justice Foundation: $107,392 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetInnovation Ohio Education Fund: $100,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetMAKE A DAY FOUNDATION: $92,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetOHIO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NETWORK: $91,350 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOHIO FAMILY CARE ASSOCIATION: $89,410 over 2y, 59% of budgetAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education: $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID OF WESTERN OHIO INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAO ADVOCATING OPPORTUNITY INC: $77,670 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER: $76,670 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS: $76,489 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC: $74,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCentral Ohio Workers Center Inc: $74,550 over 2y, 61% of budgetOHIO DISABILITY RIGHTS LAW & POLICY CENTER INC: $72,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetImmigrant & Refugee Law Center: $71,500 over 2y, 24% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION ADVOCACY COALITION: $71,400 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetOhio Victim Witness Association Inc: $66,111 over 1y, 15% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND: $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHealth Disparities Collaborative of Ohio: $65,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetOHIO VOICE: $56,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMID-OHIO PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES IN: $55,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLEGAL WORKS INC: $55,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS-OH: $55,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $52,770 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $50,625 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFREDERICK DOUGLASS PROJECT FOR JUSTICE: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSLAVIC VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGreater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC: $45,679 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOperation Legal Help Ohio: $44,860 over 2y, 32% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $42,000 over 3y, 0.6% 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.

The George Gund Found…Columbus FoundationThe Cleveland Foundat…The Greater Cincinnat…Ohio Access to Justic…United Way of Greater…Cincinnati Bar Founda…Women's Fund of Centr…The Char and Chuck Fo…Ohio Capital Impact C…Murray and Agnes Seas…Mt Sinai Health Care …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Florida Bar Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 93 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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