· Public charity
Texas Bar Foundation
The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas, especially for programs that relate to the administration of justice; ethics in the legal profession; legal assistance for the needy; the encouragement of legal research, publications & forums; and the…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 110 grants below total $1,631,585 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,688,863 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $57,278 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $172k
- $10k–50k87 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Texas Young Lawyers Assc | $45,000 |
| The Arc of the Capital Area | $35,000 |
| Hope Haven of East Texas | $30,000 |
| Texas Ctr for the Judiciary | $30,000 |
| Aspire A Mindful Place | $30,000 |
| South Tx College of Law Houst | $27,200 |
| Basin Dream Ctr for Orphans | $26,050 |
| Fort Bend Womens Center | $25,400 |
| BakerRipley | $25,000 |
| Lone Star Justice Alliance | $25,000 |
| ACH Child and Family Svcs | $25,000 |
| Precinct4Forward | $25,000 |
| Texas CASA | $25,000 |
| CASA for Hunt County | $25,000 |
| Austin Bar Fdn Vets Leg Assis | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 65 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $946k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TCTexas Center for the Judiciary Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +14%
- LSLONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE4× · 2021–2025 · $103k · revenue +182%
- HOHEART OF A CHANPION4× · 2021–2025 · $87k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE MASON COUNTY COURTHOUSEone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -99%
- LSLONE STAR LEGAL AIDone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +1%
- BIBRAZOS INTERFAITH IMMIGRATION NETWORKone grant, 2023 · $39k · revenue -51%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Training and supporting quality volunteers who speak out for the best interest of abused and neglected children in court in an effort to find each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.
Child Advocacy
None
To advocate for and provide services to children and families when there are allegations of abuse and neglect throughout the investigation,prosecution, treatment, and prevention of child abuse, and to reduce the trauma to childrent with…
The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.
To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children that are in the custody of the State of Texas.
To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.
To recruit, train and supervise volunteers that advocate in the best interests of abused and neglected children in court.
Train volunteers to advocate for children in court directed foster care.
The children's advocacy center of van zandt county is committed to ensuring quality services and support to those children impacted by abuse while also building a future where no child in van zandt county experiences abuse.
To provide trained court appointed volunteers to serve as advocates for the best interests of abused and neglected children in harrison county texas
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Transformative Justice of Williamson County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
253 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 253 of the 283 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Texas Center for the Judiciary Inc ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HEART OF A CHANPION ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Central Texas ↗
- Who funds Texas Advocacy Project ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE WAY BACK HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE OF NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FORWARD ↗
- Who funds Innocence Project of Texas ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN 4 TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds EARL CARL INSTITUTE FOR LEGAL AND SOCIAL POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Voz De Ninos ↗
- Who funds YOUTH JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER ↗
- Who funds METHODIST JUSTICE MINISTRY OF FUMC ↗
- Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Cactus Nazarene Ministry Center ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MASON COUNTY COURTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION ↗
- Who funds ANGEL REACH ↗
- Who funds LAW FOCUSED EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONFERENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Texas Defender Service ↗
- Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS INTERFAITH IMMIGRATION NETWORK ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Meadows Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Texas Center for Child and Family Studies · Houston Endowment Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Casa Inc · Texas Council on Family Violence Inc · United Way of Greater Houston
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Texas Bar Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.