Ohio · Nonprofit
AKRON BAR FOUNDATION
AKRON BAR FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,250 to it, the largest being The Robert & Iotha Mae Romweber Memorial Foundation Tr ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $424k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $110k
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Akron Bar Foundation does
Mission
The foundation supports the activities of the akron bar association under section 509(a)(3). The foundation also acts as the charitable arm of the akron bar association and provides scholarships to deserving law students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarships and other grants provided to support activities of the akron bar association and other charities.
$207,876 spentof which $95,000 as grants76% of program spendingTo promote legal research and to provide support for legal, educational or literary research and the operation of libraries or other research services for the legal profession.
$65,279 spentof which $21,954 as grants24% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $273,155.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $5.8M to $4.9M (−15%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
24% of AKRON BAR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Catherine Kurela
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $45k → $13k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $208k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Akron Bar Association). These are real filings, and they are not money AKRON BAR FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of AKRON BAR FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AKRON BAR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 86% · 2023 77% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of AKRON BAR FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AKRON BAR FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AKRON BAR FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Akron Bar Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AKRON BAR FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AKRON BAR FOUNDATION?
- AKRON BAR FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,250 to it, the largest being The Robert & Iotha Mae Romweber Memorial Foundation Tr ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AKRON BAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $110,250 in grants to AKRON BAR FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AKRON BAR FOUNDATION?
- The Robert & Iotha Mae Romweber Memorial Foundation Tr is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AKRON BAR FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing