· Public charity
The Florida Bar Foundation Inc
The mission of the florida bar foundation, inc.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
- $250k+35 grants · $94M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES OF MID-FLORIDA INC | $7,516,641 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC | $7,452,872 |
| BAY AREA LEGAL SERVICES INC | $6,636,062 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE ORANGE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION INC | $5,863,089 |
| FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC | $5,736,227 |
| LEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC | $5,475,253 |
| JACKSONVILLE AREA LEGAL AID INC | $5,249,827 |
| LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA INC | $4,180,444 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES LEGAL SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI INC | $3,969,257 |
| AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE | $3,798,635 |
| DADE LEGAL AID | $3,664,209 |
| GULFCOAST LEGAL SERVICES INC | $3,444,471 |
| FLORIDA HEALTH JUSTICE PROJECT | $2,525,782 |
| THREE RIVERS LEGAL SERVICES INC | $2,482,084 |
| BREVARD COUNTY LEGAL AID INC | $2,322,241 |
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 (FY17–25, $5.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +79% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- FLFLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $15M · revenue +241% · 87% of their budget
- JAJACKSONVILLE AREA LEGAL AID INC9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +95%
- LALegal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +67%
Funded once
- EJEQUAL JUSTICE WORKSone grant, 2018 · $400k · revenue -11%
- FAFLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY TERMone grant, 2023 · $133k
- FLFlorida Law Related Education Association Incone grant, 2017 · $118k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Legal Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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 45 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 54 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
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 FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE AREA LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES OF MID-FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE ORANGE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc ↗
- Who funds Gulfcoast Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Legal Services Archdiocese of Miami Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN LEGAL COUNSEL INC ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Cuban American Bar Association Pro Bono Project Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RURAL LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Brevard County Legal Aid Inc ↗
- Who funds INNOCENCE PROJECT OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HEALTH JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SEMINOLE CO BAR ASSOC LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COAST TO COAST LEGAL AID OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA'S CHILDREN FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF MANASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Community Law Program Inc ↗
- Who funds HEART OF FLORIDA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Justice Technology Center Inc ↗
- Who funds IDIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAELS LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds TALLAHASSEE BAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
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: Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc · Equal Justice Works · The Miami Foundation Inc · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · Legal Services Corporation · Bay Area Legal Services Inc · The Impact Fund · Hfsf Grants Management Inc · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · AARP Foundation
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 The Florida Bar Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
- Florida Legal Services Inc — 39% of income from government
- Innocence Project of Florida Inc — 30% of income from government
- Legal Services of North Florida Inc — 27% of income from government
- Gulfcoast Legal Services Inc — 27% of income from government
- Lawyers for Children America Inc — 19% of income from government
- Bay Area Legal Services Inc — 14% of income from government
- Jacksonville Area Legal Aid Inc — 13% of income from government
- Brevard County Legal Aid Inc — 13% of income from government
- Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc — 10% of income from government
- Idignity Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Legal Aid of Manasota Inc — 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Florida Rural Legal Services Inc — 2% of income from government
- Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Legal Aid Service of Broward County Inc — 1% of income from government
- St Thomas University Inc — 0% of income from government
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.