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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…

$1.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
110
Itemized grants FY2025
94
Organizations funded FY2024
56%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.6M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$14,433
Largest grant, FY2025
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
64 to 94
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$47M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Texas Bar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $878k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving109$1.6M60%
FY202494$1.6M56%
FY202385$1.5M64%
FY202267$1.1M70%
FY202164$1.1Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$4.1MHuman Services$829kHealth$447kEducation$286kHousing & Shelter$246kCivil Rights$201kYouth Development$186kArts & Culture$168kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 283 grantees
All grantees of Texas Bar Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
State Bar of Texas$293,0005n/a
Texas Center for the Judiciary Inc$150,00051%
Lone Star Justice Alliance$102,50043%
Heart of a Chanpion$87,00043%
Catholic Charities of Central Texas$81,00040%
Texas Advocacy Project$80,06041%
Fort Bend Family Health Center Inc$80,00030%
South Texas College of Law Houston Inc$78,60030%
The Way Back House Inc$75,40047%
Human Rights Initiative of North Texas Inc$75,00041%
Catholic Charities of the Texas Panhandle$74,00041%
Justice Forward$69,00045%
Innocence Project of Texas$65,00032%
Austin Bar Foundation$61,50033%
Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc$60,00030%
Kidsave International Inc$57,30031%
Children 4 Tomorrow$56,954335%
Fort Bend County Women's Center Inc Sos/Shelter-Outreach-Solutions$56,69220%
Earl Carl Institute for Legal and Social Policy Inc$55,00024%
Childrens Advocacy Center of Smith County$54,54731%
Voz De Ninos$54,000212%
Youth Justice Alliance$53,000210%
Methodist Justice Ministry of Fumc$50,00042%
Ach Child and Family Services$50,00020%
Cactus Nazarene Ministry Center$50,000210%
Friends of the Mason County Courthouse$50,00011%
Hidalgo County$50,0002n/a
Fe y Justicia Worker Center$50,000222%
San Antonio Legal Services Association$49,60033%
Advocates for Community Transformation$49,48521%
Angel Reach$47,50030%
Law Focused Education Inc$45,00026%
Conference on Crimes Against Women Inc$41,50031%
El Paso County$40,4002n/a
Lone Star Legal Aid$40,00010%
The Tahirih Justice Center$40,00020%
Texas Defender Service$40,00021%
Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project$40,00031%
Dallas Children's Advocacy Center$40,00030%
Brazos Interfaith Immigration Network$39,000123%
Affordable Homes of South Texas Inc$38,50010%
Dallas County Elections$37,7502n/a
Center for Child Protection$37,50020%
Denton County Lawyers Foundation$37,500160%
Cherish Our Children Inc$37,50027%
Texas Legal Services Center INC$37,50020%
Texas Muslim Womens Foundation Inc$35,60030%
Texas Southern University$35,0002n/a
Childrens Advocacy Center for North Texas Inc$35,00010%
Texas Casa Inc$35,00020%
Catholic Charities- Diocese of Tyler$35,00031%
The Arc of the Capital Area$35,0001n/a
NAMI Texas Inc$34,26414%
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southeast Texas Inc$34,25022%
Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc$33,00020%
San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries Inc$32,50020%
Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts$31,000310%
Merced Housing Texas$30,00010%
The Council on Recovery$30,00020%
Austin Classical Guitar Society$30,00031%
Unlimited Potential Inc$30,00012%
Texas Appleseed$30,00030%
Casa for the Highland Lakes Area$30,00014%
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of San Antonio Inc$30,0002n/a
Mission Granbury Inc$30,00011%
Aspire a Mindful Place$30,0001n/a
Tapkard Inc$30,0001n/a
Multicultural Family Center$30,00027%
New Friends New Life$30,00021%
The University of Texas Foundation Inc$30,00010%
Lone Star Casa Inc$29,81523%
For the Sake of One$29,14028%
CASA For Kids Inc$27,64514%
International Rescue Committee INC$27,60020%
Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services Inc$27,36030%
Williamson County$27,2151n/a
Heartisans Marketplace$27,00014%
Houston Area Women's Center$26,80010%
Basin Dream Center for Orphans$26,0501n/a
El Paso Museum of Art$25,7142n/a
CASA of Central Texas Inc$25,62540%
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston - Houston$25,50010%
St Mary's University$25,40020%
Vecina$25,00015%
Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc$25,00010%
Childsafe$25,00020%
Our Daily Bread Inc$25,00011%
Casa for Hunt County Inc$25,00014%
Harris County Juvenile Probation Department$25,0001n/a
Better at Last$25,000213%
Central Tx Parent Advoc Group$25,0001n/a
Family Compass$25,00021%
BakerRipley$25,0001n/a
East Texas Immigrant Advocacy$25,000227%
Harris County$25,0001n/a
Prison Entrepreneurship Program Inc$25,00011%
His Fathers Heart Ministries$25,0001n/a
Denton County Friends of the Family Inc$25,00020%
Houston Pearls Foundation$25,0001n/a
Traffick911$25,00020%
Precinct4forward$25,00010%
Developing Integrity in Familiesand Youths Foundation$24,5201n/a
Houston Bar Association$24,50011%
Geaux 4 Kids$24,0001n/a
Alliance for Children Inc$23,50030%
Justice for Children Inc$23,0001n/a
Williamson County Children's Advocacy Center Inc$23,00020%
Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas Inc$22,90020%
One Voice Home$22,67923%
Texas Fair Defense Project$22,50027%
Foundation for Responsible Television$22,400111%
Guardianship Services Inc$22,00021%
The Amarillo College Foundation$22,00010%
Community Christian Legal Aid$22,00026%
Metroplex Military Charitable Trust$22,000112%
Longview Teen Court Inc$22,000129%
Awaaz$21,5001n/a
Communities in Schools of Houston Inc$21,12020%
Equal Justice Center$21,00012%
Minorities for Equality in Employment Education Liberty and Justice$20,50029%
Bill of Rights Institute$20,50020%
Baylor University$20,49220%
Unlocking Doors Inc$20,40021%
University of Texas$20,0202n/a
Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show Inc$20,00010%
Children's Advocacy Center of Central Texas Inc$20,00012%
Frazier Revitalization Inc$20,00023%
Downtown Women's Center Inc$20,00011%
Opportunity Center for the Homeless$20,00010%
Alamo Colleges Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Greater Waco Legal Services$20,00016%
Proyecto Azteca Inc$20,00012%
Texas A&M Foundation$20,00010%
Equal Justice America Inc$20,00021%
CASA of Williamson County Texas$20,00011%
Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas$20,00012%
Simply Grace$20,00021%
Foster Village Inc$20,0001n/a
Neighborhood Recovery Communit Development Corp$20,00011%
HAY Center Foundation$20,00011%
Avenue Community Development Corporation$20,00020%
Grace to Grow$20,00014%
Center for Survivors of Torture$20,0001n/a
Amarillo Area Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc$20,00012%
The Women's Center of Tarrant County Inc$20,00010%
Junior Players Guild$20,0001n/a
Kid Net Foundation Jonathans Place$20,00010%
Hope to All$19,5501n/a
Mercy Gate Ministries$19,27522%
The Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc$19,0001n/a
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$18,00020%
DeliverFund$17,20011%
Arlington-Mansfield Area Young Men's Christian Association$16,60010%
Girls' Haven Inc$16,28510%
Hispanic Bar Association Inc$16,00015%
Matagorda County Women's Crisis Center$16,00011%
Texas Christian University$16,00010%
Memorial Assistance Ministries$15,90020%
Smith County Champions for Children Inc$15,50012%
Austin Young Lawyers Assoc Foundation$15,250122%
McLen Nan Colivestock Show$15,1601n/a
Texas District & County Attorneys Foundation$15,00017%
Foster Care Advocacy Center$15,00011%
Covenant House Texas$15,00010%
Lubbock County Sheriffs Offic$15,0001n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star$15,0001n/a
San Antonio Bar Foundation$15,000111%
Patriot Paws Service Dogs$15,0001n/a
Austin Bar Association$15,00011%
Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas$15,00010%
Citysquare$15,00010%
Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center$15,0001n/a
The Center for Pursuit$15,00010%
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum$15,0001n/a
Wade Wellness Services$15,0001n/a
Texas A&M University$15,0001n/a
Justice For Our Neighbors North Central Texas$15,000111%
Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture$15,00013%
Family Services of Southeast Texas Inc$15,00011%
Resource & Crisis Center of Galveston County Texas$15,0001n/a
Northeast Texas Casa Inc$15,00011%
Refugee Language Project$15,0001n/a
Transformative Justice of Williamson County$15,0001n/a
Santa Maria Hostel Inc$15,00010%
Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc$14,8611n/a
Church World Service Inc$14,43310%
Mil Mujeres Inc$14,25020%
Children At Risk$14,00010%
Hope's Door New Beginning Center$13,50020%
Family Service Association of San Antonio Inc$12,81610%
Restored Hope Ministries Inc$12,50012%
Dallas County$12,5001n/a
Southern Methodist University$12,50010%
Angela House$12,5001n/a
Montrose Grace Place$12,50015%
Texas Center for Child and Family Studies$12,34510%
Project Amistad Inc$11,90010%
ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF NORTHEAST TEXAS dba ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF SMITH COUNTY$11,57611%
Johnson County Childrens Advocacy Center$11,55011%
Homeward Bound Inc$11,52510%
Code Academy$11,5001n/a
Beat AIDS Coalition Trust$11,06010%
University of North Texas at Dallas Foundation$10,0001n/a
VolunteerNow$10,0001n/a
Texas Tech Law School Foundation$10,0001n/a
Austin Free-Net$10,00012%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater San Antonio$10,00010%
YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas Inc$10,00010%
Child Crisis Center of El Paso Inc$10,00011%
Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc$10,00010%
Big Country Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc$10,00011%
Texas Association of Mediators Inc$10,0001n/a
Neighborhood Defender Service Inc$10,00010%
Dallas County Mental Health & Mental Retardation Center$10,0001n/a
Corazon Ministries Inc$10,0001n/a
Texas Tribune Inc$10,0001n/a
Scottys House Brazos Valley Child Advocacy Center Inc$10,00010%
Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center$10,00011%
The Heights Ellis County Family Resources Inc$10,00010%
Lydia Patterson Institute$10,00010%
Casa of Tarrant County Inc$10,00010%
Women in Need Inc$10,00011%
Justice Reform Foundation II Inc$10,0001n/a
Family Support Services of Amarillo$10,00010%
Boys & Girls Club of Hill County Texas Incorporated$10,00013%
Home Point$10,00010%
Opening Doors International Services Inc$10,00014%
The Sanctuary Foster Care Services$10,0001n/a
Heart of Courage$10,00018%
Ranch Hands Rescue$10,00010%
Unbound Now$10,00010%
Charlie Center$10,0001n/a
Regional Crime Victim Crisis Center$10,00011%
Stonewall Law Association of Greater Houston$10,0001n/a
Dallas Leadership Foundation$10,0001n/a
Cafe Momentum$10,00010%
East Texas Crisis Center Inc$10,0001n/a
Lower Rio Grande Valley Nature Cent$10,00012%
Trinity Kids Inc$10,00017%
Iea - Inspire Encourage Achieve$10,00012%
Guardian House$10,0001n/a
YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth$10,00010%
Poetic$10,00011%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas Inc$10,00010%
Houston Recovery Center Lgc$9,5001n/a
Texarkana Volunteer Services Bureau Inc Dba Hands on Texarkana$9,45114%
Boys & Girls Club of Northeast Tx Inc$9,25011%
Education Based Housing Inc$9,00011%
Galveston County Clubhouse Inc$8,80015%
Hope of South Texas Inc$8,68611%
Children's Advocacy Center of Greater West Texas$8,50010%
Students of Service Inc$8,3001n/a
Any Baby Can of San Antonio Inc$8,00010%
Coalition for Quality End-Of-Life Care Inc$8,0001n/a
Goodwill Industries of East Texas Inc$8,00010%
Alamo Area Council of Governments$8,0001n/a
City of McAllen$7,9651n/a
The Beacon of Downtown Houston$7,78710%
Avda$7,51510%
Child Advocates Inc$7,50010%
Esthers Safe Haven Svs$7,5001n/a
Genaustin$7,50010%
Texas Guardianship Association$7,50014%
Partners for Justice Inc$7,5001n/a
Sistema Infantil Teleton USA$7,50010%
Genesis Womens Shelter & Support$7,50010%
Casa of Galveston County$7,50011%
Advocates for Immigrant Survivors$7,50013%
CASA of Johnson County Inc$7,00011%
Houston Young Lawyers Association$7,00012%
Family Counseling Service$7,0001n/a
Boy Scouts of America Alamo Area Council$6,60010%
Books Are Gems$6,5001n/a
Special Reach Inc$6,2761n/a
Austin Groups for the Elderly$6,00010%
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Denton County Inc$6,0001n/a
Dallas Urban Debate Alliance$6,00012%
Bridgehaven Child Advocacy Center$5,83710%
Texas Network of Youth Services Inc$5,77210%
Blessed Be Hope for Three Inc$5,64011%
Womens Empowerment Legal Center$5,5001n/a
The Safe Alliance$5,50010%
Hidalgo County Bar Foundation Inc$5,100140%

Where it is load-bearing

Texas Bar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas Center for the Judiciary Inc: $150,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLone Star Justice Alliance: $102,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetHeart of a Chanpion: $87,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCatholic Charities of Central Texas: $81,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Advocacy Project: $80,060 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFort Bend Family Health Center Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Texas College of Law Houston Inc: $78,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Way Back House Inc: $75,400 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetHuman Rights Initiative of North Texas Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Texas Panhandle: $74,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJustice Forward: $69,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetInnocence Project of Texas: $65,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAustin Bar Foundation: $61,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCatholic Charities of Dallas Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKidsave International Inc: $57,300 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetChildren 4 Tomorrow: $56,954 over 3y, 35% of budgetFort Bend County Women's Center Inc Sos/Shelter-Outreach-Solutions: $56,692 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEarl Carl Institute for Legal and Social Policy Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Center of Smith County: $54,547 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVoz De Ninos: $54,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetYouth Justice Alliance: $53,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetMethodist Justice Ministry of Fumc: $50,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetAch Child and Family Services: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCactus Nazarene Ministry Center: $50,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetFriends of the Mason County Courthouse: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFe y Justicia Worker Center: $50,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSan Antonio Legal Services Association: $49,600 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetAdvocates for Community Transformation: $49,485 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAngel Reach: $47,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLaw Focused Education Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetConference on Crimes Against Women Inc: $41,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLone Star Legal Aid: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Tahirih Justice Center: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTexas Defender Service: $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGalveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project: $40,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDallas Children's Advocacy Center: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBrazos Interfaith Immigration Network: $39,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetAffordable Homes of South Texas Inc: $38,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Child Protection: $37,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDenton County Lawyers Foundation: $37,500 over 1y, 60% of budgetCherish Our Children Inc: $37,500 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetTexas Legal Services Center INC: $37,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Muslim Womens Foundation Inc: $35,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Center for North Texas Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTexas Casa Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities- Diocese of Tyler: $35,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNAMI Texas Inc: $34,264 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Southeast Texas Inc: $34,250 over 2y, 2.3% of budget

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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 200.

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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.

Meadows Foundation IncTX72.8× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Texas Bar Foundation

How much does Texas Bar Foundation give?
Texas Bar Foundation reported 110 itemized grants totaling $1,631,585, out of $1,688,863 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 64 and 94 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Texas Bar Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (35%), Human Services (7%), Health (4%).
Who are Texas Bar Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: State Bar of Texas ($293k), Texas Center for the Judiciary Inc ($150k), Lone Star Justice Alliance ($103k).
Does Texas Bar Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Texas Bar Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Meadows Foundation Inc, The Moody Foundation, Texas Women's Foundation.
Where is Texas Bar Foundation based?
Texas Bar Foundation is based in TX.

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 283 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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