New York · 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. To cultivate the preservation of the history and traditions of the law, the courts and the legal profession.…
- $913k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $469k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,109
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 77
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The New York Bar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 43 | $469k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $419k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $406k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $343k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $503k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 77 | $537k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 70 | $713k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $548k | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York State Bar Association | $873,304 | 9 | 1% |
| The Legal Aid Society of Rochester New York | $102,246 | 9 | 0% |
| Volunteer Legal Services Project of Monroe County Inc | $97,546 | 9 | 2% |
| Western New York Law Center Inc | $92,770 | 9 | 1% |
| Hias Inc | $86,219 | 7 | 0% |
| Mobilization for Justice Inc | $79,942 | 8 | 0% |
| The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo | $74,023 | 8 | 0% |
| Access Justice Brooklyn Inc | $73,471 | 9 | 1% |
| The Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York Inc | $73,137 | 6 | 0% |
| Brooklyn Defender Services | $70,985 | 8 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The New York Bar Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About The New York Bar Foundation
- How much does The New York Bar Foundation give?
- 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. It funded between 28 and 77 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The New York Bar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (81%), Human Services (6%), Civil Rights (3%).
- Who are The New York Bar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New York State Bar Association ($873k), The Legal Aid Society of Rochester New York ($102k), Volunteer Legal Services Project of Monroe County Inc ($98k).
- Does The New York Bar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The New York Bar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc, The New York Community Trust, Robin Hood Foundation.
- Where is The New York Bar Foundation based?
- The New York Bar Foundation is based in NY.
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