How much did The New York Bar Foundation grant in FY2025?

The New York Bar Foundation reported 46 itemized grants totaling $469,399, out of $912,798 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is The New York Bar Foundation based?

The New York Bar Foundation is based in NY.

The New York Bar Foundation

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

The New York Bar Foundation

The foundation's primary exempt purpose is to advance legal research and (continuted on schedule o) education, to improve the administration of justice, to promote professional ethics and responsibility and service to the public.

$913k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$90k

Largest

01What you fund

01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$3.7MHuman Services$260kCivil Rights$149kHousing & Shelter$120kInternational$68kHealth$65kYouth Development$42kPublic Benefit$32kOther$0

02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 46 grants below total $469,399 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $912,798 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $443,399 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k41 grants · $321k
$10k–50k4 grants · $58k
$50k–250k1 grant · $90k

$8,109

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NYSBA LAWYER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM	$90,000
NYSBA LAW YOUTH AND CITIZENSHIP PROGRAM	$20,000
ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC DBA CITY BAR J	$13,804
HIAS	$13,804
UNITED TENANTS OF ALBANY INC	$10,500
THURGOOD MARSHALL JUNIOR MOCK TRIAL PROGRAM	$9,538
CAPITAL DISTRICT WOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION (CDWBA)	$9,538
CENTER FOR THE INTEGRATION AND ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS	$9,538
THE FAMILY CENTER INC	$9,538
OPEN HANDS LEGAL SERVICES	$9,538
GIRLS RULE THE LAW	$9,538
NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION	$9,538
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC	$9,538
ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND (AALDEF)	$9,538
CENTER FOR ELDER LAW & JUSTICE	$9,538

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $631k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.2M · 93 repeat orgs$356k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

93 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.2M

$324k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+37%

Still filing today

99%

91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

TL
THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER NEW YORK
9× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +152%
VL
VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +159%
WN
Western New York Law Center Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +85%

Funded once

CM
CATHOLIC MIGRATION SERVICES INC
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +23%
NY
NEW YORK STATE UNIFIED COURT SYSTEM
one grant, 2018 · $10k
AC
American Civic Association Incgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +217%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Manhattan Legal Services

Manhattan legal services is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purpose of providing legal assistance to indigent persons in the new york area in noncriminal proceedings or matters.

Crime & Legal

Legal Services of Central New York Inc

Legal services of central new york (lscny) is a 501c3 non-profit law firm that helps people and communities in central new york change law, policy, and systems to promote equity and create pathways out of poverty.

Crime & Legal

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc

Nylpi's mission is to advance equality and civil rights, with a focus on health justice, disability rights and environmental justice, through the power of community lawyering and partnerships with the private bar.

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Federal Defenders of New York Inc

The organization provides representation and related defense services to indigent persons charged with federal crimes.

Crime & Legal

Office of the Appellate Defender

Oad strives to ensure that poor people convicted of felonies receive full and equal access to justice by providing exceptional appellate representation, improving the quality of indigent defense representation through education & training,…

Crime & Legal

Lawyers Alliance for New York

Lawyers alliance for new york (lawyers alliance) is the leading provider of business law and transactional legal services that strengthen nonprofit organizations improving the quality of life in new york city neighborhoods. see schedule o…

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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

Co-Counsel Nyc Inc

To transform our collective capacity to navigate complex legal systems and support safe, thriving, and engaged immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal

New York County Defender Services Inc

New york county defender services (nycds) is a not-for-profit corporation, incorporated under the laws of new york state. as such, many of its obligations are defined by law. nycds' purpose is to represent indigent persons in resolving…

Crime & Legal

Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York Inc

The lawsuit reform alliance of new york (is a broad based coalition of hardworking new york business leaders,professionals and taxpayers who are committed to changing new york's burdensome and expensive legal system to help create more…

Public Benefit

New York State Trial Lawyers' Association Inc

To promote a safer and healthier society, to assure access to the civil justice system by those who are wrongfully injured and to advance representation of the public by ethical, well-trained lawyers.

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The Legal Aid Society of Westchester County

Securing justice for, protecting the rights of and rendering legal assistance and representation to indigent residents and non-residents of westchester county.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is My Sisters Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lesbian & Gay Law Association Foundation of Greater Ny Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.7%1/144

the rest of the field

11%

8,393/77,793

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.

04the grantee network

139 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. 139 of the 144 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

138/139

Grantees still filing

110/139

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,041,871Crime & Legal$1,323,578Human Services$643,442Civil Rights$145,813Education$142,301Housing & Shelter$122,652International$117,029

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.

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.

Mother Cabrini Health Foundation IncNY72.8× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · Equal Justice Works · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Skadden Foundation · New York State Health Fdn D/B/A New York Health Foundation · Immigrant Justice Corps Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · New York Immigration Coalition Inc · Van Ameringen Foundation Inc

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 New York Bar Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

67report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines