Pennsylvania · Public charity
Philadelphia Bar Foundation
Promoting equal access to justice for all members of the community by strengthening the legal services system through unrestricted operating grants and technical assistance to legal aid non profits.
- $598k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $503k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $14,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $142,599
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Philadelphia Bar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k 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 | 21 | $503k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $432k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $720k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $357k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $371k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $395k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $371k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $336k | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Legal Services Inc | $707,794 | 9 | 1% |
| Philadelphia Vip Inc | $367,923 | 9 | 5% |
| Philadelphia Equal Justice Center Inc | $331,185 | 2 | 95% |
| Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization | $208,242 | 9 | 1% |
| Friends of Farmworkers Inc | $206,488 | 9 | 3% |
| Seniorlaw Center | $184,196 | 9 | 3% |
| Support Center for Child Advocates | $181,289 | 9 | 0% |
| Homeless Advocacy Project | $137,096 | 9 | 1% |
| Women's Law Project | $126,472 | 9 | 1% |
| AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania | $116,809 | 9 | 2% |
Show all 44 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Philadelphia Bar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Independence Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Heinz Endowments · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Union Benevolent Association · Van Ameringen Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Philadelphia Bar Foundation
- How much does Philadelphia Bar Foundation give?
- Philadelphia Bar Foundation reported 21 itemized grants totaling $503,099, out of $597,601 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Philadelphia Bar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (99%), Health (1%), Civil Rights (1%).
- Who are Philadelphia Bar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Legal Services Inc ($708k), Philadelphia Vip Inc ($368k), Philadelphia Equal Justice Center Inc ($331k).
- Does Philadelphia Bar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Philadelphia Bar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Independence Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board.
- Where is Philadelphia Bar Foundation based?
- Philadelphia Bar Foundation is based in PA.
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