Washington, D.C. · Public charity
The District of Columbia Bar Foundation
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION was established to raise funds for organizations in the district that provide hands-on legal services to residents who are unable to afford legal assistance.
- $27M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 69
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $99,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,693,764
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $30M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The District of Columbia Bar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 34 | $26M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $26M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $20M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $11M | 6% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $11M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $9.2M | 4% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $9.7M | 24% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $4.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia | $26,806,827 | 8 | 44% |
| Neighborhood Legal Services Program of DC | $14,009,167 | 8 | 59% |
| Rising for Justice Inc | $13,888,915 | 8 | 93% |
| Bread for the City Inc | $11,895,304 | 8 | 12% |
| Legal Counsel for the Elderly | $7,046,936 | 8 | 29% |
| DC Bar Pro Bono Center | $5,951,383 | 6 | 34% |
| Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs Inc | $5,072,594 | 8 | 25% |
| Ayuda Inc | $5,059,869 | 8 | 10% |
| Children's Law Center Inc | $4,710,698 | 8 | 9% |
| Whitman-Walker Clinic Inc | $2,621,200 | 8 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
The District of Columbia Bar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · Equal Justice Works · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Women's Bar Association Foundation · Miller & Chevalier Charitable Foundation · Georgetown University
How this is measured
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About The District of Columbia Bar Foundation
- How much does The District of Columbia Bar Foundation give?
- The District of Columbia Bar Foundation reported 69 grants totaling $26,605,035 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The District of Columbia Bar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (84%), Food & Nutrition (7%), Human Services (2%).
- Who are The District of Columbia Bar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia ($27M), Neighborhood Legal Services Program of DC ($14M), Rising for Justice Inc ($14M).
- Does The District of Columbia Bar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The District of Columbia Bar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The Sidley Austin Foundation.
- Where is The District of Columbia Bar Foundation based?
- The District of Columbia Bar Foundation is based in DC.
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