Missouri · Nonprofit
BAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS
BAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being FOLEY & MANSFIELD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $500
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Bar Association of Metropolitan St Louis does
Mission
The bar association of metropolitan st. Louis (bamsl) seeks to maintain the highest professional standards among attorneys and to enhance their professional competence, to improve the administration of justice and promote the rule of law, to serve the needs of members, and to provide law-related services and education to the public.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Dues, partnership, general operations, sustain approximately 5,402 members. The association organizes relevant events to foster its goals. There are groups, such as the women in the legal profession and the young lawyers division, which provide opportunities for mentoring and networking with peers as well as with others in the legal community. The association also strives to keep members informed through its publication, the st. Louis law journal magazine. We continue to offer both in-person and virtual options for our events and meetings; although virtual meetings remain very popular.
The missouri bar requires all lawyers actively practicing law in missouri to complete 15 hours of continuing legal education (cle) every year. The association offered 34 cle classes to all lawyers with discounted registration fees for members. We continue to offer both in-person and virtual options for cle seminars; although virtual options remain very popular.
The lawyer referral & information service (lris) is sponsored by the association as a public service. The lris mission is to assist the public in obtaining legal services. In operation for more than 70 years, the lris serves as the gateway between the public and the legal profession. During the past year, the lris made approximately 3,216 referrals to lawyers and other agencies and services in the metropolitan st. Louis area. Beginiing in 2016, this is through an online platform.
The 3 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.7M to $3.8M (+40%).
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: 2021 1% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 10 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $420k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest St Louis Bar Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS raised.
From the IRS filings of BAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS’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.
Where its funders are
BAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state in all.
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.
Organizations like BAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: 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 BAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS?
- BAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being FOLEY & MANSFIELD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to BAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS.
- Who is the largest funder of BAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS?
- FOLEY & MANSFIELD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing