How much does Utah Bar Foundation give?

Utah Bar Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $3,717,409 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Utah Bar Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (87%), International (7%), Education (3%).

Who are Utah Bar Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Disability Law Center ($1.3M), Utah Legal Services Inc ($1.2M), Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake ($1.2M).

Does Utah Bar Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Utah Bar Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Sorenson Legacy Foundation, And Justice for All.

Where is Utah Bar Foundation based?

Utah Bar Foundation is based in UT.

Utah Bar Foundation

Utah Bar Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Utah Bar Foundation

1) promote legal education and increase the knowledge and awareness of the law in the community.

$3.7M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$447k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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$12MInternational$878kEducation$455kHuman Services$453kCommunity Improvement$12k

02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $9k
$10k–50k11 grants · $343k
$50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
$250k+6 grants · $2.0M

$79,888

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LEGAL AID SOCIETY	$446,867
DISABILITY LAW CENTER	$390,000
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES	$318,000
TIMPANOGOS LEGAL CENTER	$315,642
AND JUSTICE FOR ALL	$310,004
CLEAN SLATE UTAH	$253,023
UTAH LEGAL SERVICES	$166,406
ROCKY MTN INNOCENCE	$165,000
UTAH LAW RELATED EDUCATION	$152,210
WASATCH IMMIGRATION PROJECT	$150,000
UTAH DISPUTE RESOLUTION	$123,400
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA	$110,900
SALT LAKE JUSTICE COURT	$100,000
UTAH COMMUNITY ACTION	$80,900
MOUNTAIN MEDIATION CENTER	$79,888

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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$13M · 33 repeat orgs$339k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 7 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

$13M

$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

Still filing today

67%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationHealthInternationalOther

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

DL
DISABILITY LAW CENTER
8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +48%
UL
UTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +1%
LA
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SALT LAKE
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +92%

Funded once

UF
UTAH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -28%
NL
NONPROFIT LEGAL SERVICES OF UTAH
one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +19%

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.

Utah Crime Victim Legal Clinic Inc

Provides free legal representation for victims of crime including providing information, support, and advocacy for victims as they go through the criminal justice process.

Human Services

Utah Donor Collaborative

Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.

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Utah Trial Lawyers Association Inc Aka Utah Association for Justice

To educate utah trial lawyers and promote professionalism, to uphold and defend the constitutions of the usa and utah.

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Utah Land Use Institute

To assist governmental units, developers and the public with land use issues.

Education

Idaho Legal Aid Services Inc Idaho Legal Aid Services Inc

Idaho legal aid services inc is a statewide nonprofit law firm dedicated to providing equal access for low-income people through quality advocacy and education

Crime & Legal

Utah Civil Justice League

Promote tort reform by working exclusively in the legislature and the courts to introduce fairness and predictability to the civil justice system. Works as an advocate to reduce excessive and abusive litigation that increases business and…

Community Improvement

Utah Housing Coalition Inc

The promotion of low-income housing within the state of utah.

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Utah Public Lands Alliance

Education

Utah Swat Inc

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Aclu of Utah Foundation Inc

The organization's mission is to preserve and promote individual civil rights and civil liberties as guaranteed by the united states and utah constitutions and the civil rights laws within the state of utah.

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Utah Leads

Utah Leads set out to understand what makes our information ecosystem in Utah unique, who is influencing policy formation in Utah, how that influence works in practice through multiple channels and across channels, and what policy…

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Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Legal Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

30 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. 30 of the 42 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)

29/30

Grantees still filing

20/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Crime & Legal$7,486,201Other$4,185,447International$877,728Education$308,536Civil Rights$199,500Health$195,000Human Services$131,229

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.

George S and Dolores Dore Eccles FoundationUT34× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · And Justice for All · Park City Community Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Florence J Gillmor Foundation · Utah's Promise · Ihc Health Services Inc · Utah State Bar

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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