How much does The Florida Bar Foundation Inc give?

The Florida Bar Foundation Inc reported 37 grants totaling $94,677,456 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Florida Bar Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (93%), Civil Rights (4%), Health (2%).

Who are The Florida Bar Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Florida Legal Services Inc ($15M), Jacksonville Area Legal Aid Inc ($12M), Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc ($12M).

Does The Florida Bar Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Florida Bar Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc, Equal Justice Works, The Miami Foundation Inc.

Where is The Florida Bar Foundation Inc based?

The Florida Bar Foundation Inc is based in FL.

The Florida Bar Foundation Inc

The Florida Bar Foundation Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

The Florida Bar Foundation Inc

The mission of the florida bar foundation, inc.

$95M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$7.5M

Largest

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$182MCivil Rights$8.0MHealth$3.5MPhilanthropy$511kEducation$437kHuman Services$115kOther$0

02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$50k–250k2 grants · $225k
$250k+35 grants · $94M

$1,713,606

Median grant

States reached

$523M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$190M · 41 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$190M

$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%

Still filing today

88%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

FL
FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $15M · revenue +241% · 87% of their budget
JA
JACKSONVILLE AREA LEGAL AID INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +124% · 47% of their budget
LA
Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +67%

Funded once

EJ
EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS
one grant, 2018 · $400k · revenue -11%
FA
FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY TERM
one grant, 2023 · $133k
FL
Florida Law Related Education Association Inc
one grant, 2017 · $118k

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.

Dade Legal Aid Foundation

Dade legal aid provides quality free civil legal services to low-income people in miami dade county in the areas of family law, guardianship, domestic violence and childrens legal services. we receive donations from firms & individuals to…

Crime & Legal

Lee County Bar Association Inc

We strive to serve as a leader in advancing ethical conduct, excellence, and the professionalism of our attorneys by providing ongoing legal education in support of our members, fostering an environment of public responsibility among legal…

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Orlando Center for Justice

Orlando Center for Justice, Inc.s mission is to bridge the access to justice gap in Florida for newcomers by helping these underserved communities navigate the legal system through education and innovation. We also walk alongside them,…

Crime & Legal

Florida Immigration Law and Justice Center Inc

Our primary mission is to provide free or low-cost immigration legal services to vulnerable immigrant communities in Florida, to advocate for immigrant's rights, and to engage in education efforts to help immigrants and non-immigrants…

Crime & Legal

Florida Childrens Rights Coalition

Legal representation of children.

Community Improvement

Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal

Florida Italian American Bar Assoc

Civil Rights

South Carolina Legal Services

South carolina legal services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income south carolinians.

Crime & Legal

Florida Justice Association

Promotes the development of law in florida

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Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.

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Legal Aid Society of South Florida Inc

The organization provides legal aid to women in distress and victims of domestic violence.

Unclassified

Legal Aid Society of the Martin County Bar Association Inc

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Legal Services Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/48

Grantees still filing

40/48

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$126,794,858Crime & Legal$54,478,834Human Services$5,627,691Health$3,483,115Civil Rights$2,157,776Philanthropy$1,643,998Education$590,465

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence IncFL40.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Florida Bar Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Florida Bar Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home