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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 FY2025still arriving
110
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2025 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 110 grants below total $1,631,585, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,688,863 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $57,278 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $172k
  • $10k–50k87 grants · $1.5M
$14,433
Median grant
5
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Texas Young Lawyers Assc$45,000
The Arc of the Capital Area$35,000
Texas Ctr for the Judiciary$30,000
Aspire A Mindful Place$30,000
Hope Haven of East Texas$30,000
South Tx College of Law Houst$27,200
Basin Dream Ctr for Orphans$26,050
Fort Bend Womens Center$25,400
Texas Advocacy Project Inc$25,000
CASA for Hunt County$25,000
Lone Star Justice Alliance$25,000
ACH Child and Family Svcs$25,000
Precinct4Forward$25,000
BakerRipley$25,000
Austin Bar Fdn Vets Leg Assis$25,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Patriot PAWS Service Dogs: $15k → 5%Mission Granbury: $30k → 10%Foster Village: $20k → 10%For the Sake of One: $15k → 19%Geaux 4 Kids: $24k → 13%Resource & Crisis Ctr of Galv: $15k → 14%Awaazorg: $22k → 16%For the Sake of One: $14k → 19%A Home Base for Trsng Youth: $30k → 22%Angel Reach: $20k → 9%Neighborhood Recv Comm Dev Co: $20k → 16%Refugee Language Project: $15k → 20%Angel Reach: $15k → 9%Catholic Charities of SE Tx: $15k → 19%Angel Reach: $13k → 9%Girls Haven Inc: $16k → 19%Family Services SETX: $15k → 19%Human Rights Initiative NTX: $25k → 14%Opportunity Ctr for the Homel: $20k → 21%Fort Bend Womens Center: $31k → 8%Human Rights Initiative NTX: $20k → 14%Foster Care Advocacy Ctr: $15k → 16%Fort Bend Womens Center: $25k → 8%Human Rights Initiative NTX: $20k → 14%Precinct4Forward: $25k → 16%Restored Hope Ministries: $13k → 14%Covenant House Texas: $15k → 16%Houston Area Womens Ctr: $27k → 16%Montrose Grace Place: $13k → 16%ChildSafe: $15k → 16%Catholic Charities - GalHou: $26k → 16%Arlington-Mansfield Area YMCA: $17k → 11%Family Svc Ass of San Antonio: $13k → 16%CitySquare: $15k → 14%Metroplex Military Charitable: $22k → 14%Kid Net Fdn dba Jonathans Pl: $20k → 14%Justice Forward: $20k → 16%Justice Forward: $19k → 16%Justice Forward: $15k → 16%Justice Forward: $15k → 16%Children 4 Tomorrow: $28k → 16%Children 4 Tomorrow: $18k → 16%Dallas Chirdren Advocacy Ctr: $15k → 14%DeliverFund: $17k → 14%Dallas Childrens Advocacy Ctr: $15k → 14%BakerRipley: $25k → 16%The Center for Pursuit: $15k → 16%ME3LJ Center: $13k → 10%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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 90 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
128

Total granted

$3.9M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

91%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $946k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsEducationHealthYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    Texas Center for the Judiciary Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +14%
  • LS
    LONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $103k · revenue +182%
  • HO
    HEART OF A CHANPION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $87k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE MASON COUNTY COURTHOUSE
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -99%
  • LS
    LONE STAR LEGAL AID
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +1%
  • BI
    BRAZOS INTERFAITH IMMIGRATION NETWORK
    one grant, 2023 · $39k · revenue -36%
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
Court Appointed Special Advocates in the Heart of Texas

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.

Civil Rights
2
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
—
3
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
4
Court Appointed Special Advocates Casa of Liberty/Chambers Counties

None

Human Services
5
Guadalupe County Children's Advocacy Center

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…

Crime & Legal
6
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
7
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Hidalgo Count

To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children that are in the custody of the State of Texas.

Civil Rights
8
Bluebonnet Childrens Center

To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.

Crime & Legal
9
Casa for Kids of South Central Texas Inc

To recruit, train and supervise volunteers that advocate in the best interests of abused and neglected children in court.

Housing & Shelter
10
Casa of Deep East Texas Inc

Train volunteers to advocate for children in court directed foster care.

Crime & Legal
11
Childrens Advocacy Center of Van Zandt County Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Casa of Harrison County

To provide trained court appointed volunteers to serve as advocates for the best interests of abused and neglected children in harrison county texas

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center; 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.
04the grantee network

253 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
253/253
Grantees still filing
140/253
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

State Bar of Texas: $293,000 · OtherState Bar of TexasTexas Center for the Judiciary Inc: $150,000 · OtherTexas Center for the Judiciary IncHEART OF A CHANPION: $87,000 · Other+67 more: $2,065,408 · Other+67 moreHUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE OF NORTH TEXAS INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesHUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: $74,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF T…JUSTICE FORWARD: $69,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN 4 TOMORROW: $56,954 · Human ServicesFORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS: $56,692 · Human ServicesANGEL REACH: $47,500 · Human Services+44 more: $915,315 · Human Services+44 moreLONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $102,500 · Crime & LegalLONE STAR JUSTICE …CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY: $54,547 · Crime & LegalCHILDRENS ADVOCACY…Voz De Ninos: $54,000 · Crime & LegalSAN ANTONIO LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $49,600 · Crime & LegalCONFERENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN INC: $41,500 · Crime & LegalLONE STAR LEGAL AID: $40,000 · Crime & LegalGalveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project: $40,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $37,500 · Crime & LegalDenton County Lawyers Foundation: $37,500 · Crime & LegalTexas Legal Services Center INC: $37,500 · Crime & LegalCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC: $35,000 · Crime & Legal+24 more: $492,125 · Crime & Legal+24 moreFE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER: $50,000 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $40,000 · Civil RightsTexas Defender Service: $40,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS CASA INC: $35,000 · Civil RightsCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Southeast Texas Inc: $34,250 · Civil RightsFt Bend County Child Advocates Inc: $33,000 · Civil RightsCASA FOR THE HIGHLAND LAKES AREA: $30,000 · Civil RightsLONE STAR CASA INC: $29,815 · Civil RightsCASA For Kids Inc: $27,645 · Civil RightsCASA of Central Texas Inc: $25,625 · Civil RightsEAST TEXAS IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY: $25,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $23,500 · Civil RightsEqual Justice Center: $21,000 · Civil RightsAMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $20,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $44,861 · Civil RightsFORT BEND FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $80,000 · HealthNAMI Texas Inc: $34,264 · HealthThe Council on Recovery: $30,000 · HealthASPIRE A MINDFUL PLACE: $30,000 · HealthBETTER AT LAST: $25,000 · HealthJUSTICE FOR CHILDREN INC: $23,000 · HealthSIMPLY GRACE: $20,000 · HealthGRACE TO GROW: $20,000 · HealthTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $20,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $18,000 · HealthMATAGORDA COUNTY WOMEN'S CRISIS CENTER: $16,000 · HealthSANTA MARIA HOSTEL INC: $15,000 · HealthSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC: $78,600 · EducationYOUTH JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $53,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC: $21,120 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $20,492 · EducationALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationTexas A&M Foundation: $20,000 · EducationHISPANIC BAR ASSOCIATION INC: $16,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · EducationSMITH COUNTY CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $15,500 · EducationSouthern Methodist University: $12,500 · EducationTexas Advocacy Project: $80,060 · Arts & CultureTexas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts: $31,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR RESPONSIBLE TELEVISION: $22,400 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD: $20,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $15,000 · Arts & CultureWichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture: $15,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,595,408Human Services$1,294,461Crime & Legal$1,021,772Civil Rights$479,696Health$331,264Education$273,212Arts & Culture$183,460

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 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
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.

Meadows Foundation IncThe Moody FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…Communities Foundatio…United Way of Metropo…Texas Center for Chil…Houston Endowment IncThe Rees-Jones Founda…The Dallas FoundationTexas Casa IncTexas Council on Fami…United Way of Greater…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    89report 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 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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