California · Nonprofit
BEVERLY HILLS BAR ASSOCIATION
BEVERLY HILLS BAR ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,587 to it, the largest being THE RAY AND WYN RITCHIE EVANS FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Beverly Hills Bar Association does
Mission
The mission of the Beverly Hills Bar Association is to serve our members, lead our profession and to advocate for justice in our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization discontinued operations of Personnel Referral Service, Inc., a separate and wholly owned entity. The entity ceased operations on 2/28/2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Beverly Hills Bar Association and Beverly Hills Bar Association personnel referral service, inc., collectively, are defined as "the association." the association is a nationally recognized major metropolitan bar association based in beverly hills, california, and serves more than 60,000 lawyers primarily in california. The mission of the association is to serve its members, to lead its profession, and to advocate for justice in its community. To these ends, the association operates the following programs: membership activities this program focuses primarily on providing mandatory continuing legal education ("mcle") courses for attorneys in more than 45 substantive law practice areas, almost all of which are presented as live webcasts per year. The association also maintains mcle records for attendees of association education programs and maintains a recap of the mcle programs attorneys attend on an annual basis. Members may improve their leadership skills through participation in section executive committees and the board of governors. Members may also take advantage of a range of member benefits and services, including [genna] suitable for legal practitioners ranging from sole…
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $0.
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 $1.2M to $1.6M (+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: 2020 1% · 2022 9%. 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 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
Belinda Macauley
Executive director and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $31k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $156k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Beverly Hills Bar Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BEVERLY HILLS BAR ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of BEVERLY HILLS BAR ASSOCIATION’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
BEVERLY HILLS BAR ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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: 2018 100% · 2019 80% — 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 BEVERLY HILLS BAR ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from California 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.
Organizations like BEVERLY HILLS BAR ASSOCIATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Beverly Hills Bar Association Personnel · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BEVERLY HILLS BAR ASSOCIATION: 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 BEVERLY HILLS BAR ASSOCIATION?
- BEVERLY HILLS BAR ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,587 to it, the largest being THE RAY AND WYN RITCHIE EVANS FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEVERLY HILLS BAR ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $34,587 in grants to BEVERLY HILLS BAR ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of BEVERLY HILLS BAR ASSOCIATION?
- THE RAY AND WYN RITCHIE EVANS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEVERLY HILLS BAR ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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