New York · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC
ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,816,784 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,744,285). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.7M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund Inc does
Mission
The city bar fund, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the new york city bar association, undertakes public service, education, policy advocacy and research activities through the city bar justice center, cyrus r. Vance center for international justice, (continued on schedule o) (continued from page 2) the lawyer assistance program and the office for diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The city bar justice center (justice center) furthers access to justice by addressing the unmet civil legal needs of new yorkers struggling with poverty and other systemic socioeconomic barriers. The justice center mobilizes law firms, corporate legal departments, and other legal institutions to provide pro bono legal services; educates the public on pertinent legal issues; fosters strategic community relationships; and impacts public policy. The justice center's dozen civil justice projects, including a comprehensive civil legal hotline that handles upwards of 1,000 inquiries each month, are led by a staff of dedicated attorneys and professionals who benefit nearly 27,000 new yorkers in need each year by providing high quality, free civil legal services through brief advice and information,(continued in schedule o) (continued from page 2) referrals, and both limited scope and extended representation. In 2024-25, the justice center also assisted 20,800 individuals through community outreach; reached 113,600 individuals through online resources and information; leveraged over $30 million in pro bono legal services by 3,768 volunteer attorneys who provided 43,200 hours of pro bono…
$4,358,799 spentof which $209,250 as grants$72,451 earned by the program50% of program spendingThe vance center advances global justice by engaging lawyers across borders to support civil society and an ethically active legal profession. The vance center is a unique collaboration of international lawyers catalyzing public interest innovation. We bring together leading law firms and other partners worldwide to pioneer international justice initiatives and provide pro bono legal representation to social justice ngos within the human rights and access to justice program, the environment program, the institutional integrity program, and the public interest reporting program. The vance center's programs to strengthen the legal profession engage law firms, bar associations, law schools, and pro bono clearinghouses with innovative diversity, rule-of-law, and public interest initiatives, (continued in schedule o) (continued from page 2) including women in the profession, african legal fellows, the lawyers council for civil and economic rights in the americas, the access to justice practicum, and the pro bono promotion program, including co-managing the pro bono network of the americas, as well as through the keep families together initiative, providing pro bono legal support in…
$3,272,372 spentof which $56,000 as grants$49,457 earned by the program38% of program spendingThe office for diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging (odeib) works to drive equitable access to the legal profession. Odeib's work starts with the pipeline to the profession, assisting high school, college and law students to prepare for a career in law. Odeib believes that the pipeline continues into an associate's early career and thus devises workshops and institutes to support practicing professionals across all levels of the industry. We create community and in-roads through our committee work, leadership training, speaking opportunities and events.
$579,499 spentof which $7,630 as grants$31,407 earned by the program7% of program spendingThe city bar fund's lawyer assistance program participated monthly in the bridge the gap program for newly admitted attorneys; provided cle and educational programs at nyc law schools, large law firms, and the city bar, focusing on ethics, stigma, and wellbeing strategies; collaborated with the lap committee to provide mental health, wellbeing, and substance use education and to arrange the annual celebration of service dinner; provided weekly supervision to lap counselor, francesca acocella; collaborated with patrick krill to involve the nyc bar association in a broadbased, updated study on the incidence of mental health and substance abuse in the legal profession; collaborated with the first and second department character and fitness committees to evaluate candidates for admission and with the attorney grievance committees to monitor attorneys who are facing sanctions; and responded to requests for assistance from all new clients, including law students, lawyers, staff, and family members.
$453,774 spentof which $82,643 as grants$845 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,664,444.
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 2020 to 2021, from $14M to $20M (+35%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 42% · 2018 22% · 2019 24% · 2020 13% · 2021 38% · 2022 34% · 2023 37% · 2024 35% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Shaila Rahman Diwan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $604k → $2.4M.
12 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $29k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The New York Bar Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 funders by total. 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
ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
69% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 48% · 2019 47% · 2020 22% · 2021 39% · 2022 33% · 2023 41% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
34% of ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC is better cushioned than half of the 84 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 84 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$500k
- Department of State$333k
- Agency for International Development$239k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Association of the Bar of the City of New York · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC?
- ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,816,784 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,744,285). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $10,816,784 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,744,285 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 60 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