Texas · Nonprofit
Dallas Bar Association
Dallas Bar Association (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,750 to it, the largest being JACKSON LEWIS FOUNDATION ($26,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $78k
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Dallas Bar Association does
Mission
The Dallas Bar Association is a nonprofit corporation chartered by the State of Texas to protect and advance the professional interests of persons licensed to practice law in the Dallas area, to improve the relations between the Bench, the Bar, and the Public, and to advance cordial communication among lawyers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Continuing Legal Education -Daily luncheon clinic programs and online hybrid and virtual meetings featuring discussions on special topics by experts in each field; monthly continuing education programs held by each of the 32 sections.
$584,234 spent28% of program spendingMembership Dues and Assessments - The annual dues paid to the Association by its members are its primary source of support. The dues are payments meant to provide support for the Association in exchange for the general benefits of membership derived from affiliation with the Association, and thus bare a direct casual relationship to the accomplishment of the Association's exempt purposes.
$580,860 spent28% of program spendingSection Dues- The Dallas Bar Association (DBA) has 32 sections. Each section represents a particular field of law. DBA members are encouraged to join sections that may be of interest to their specific legal needs. Section dues are collected to pay for educational materials and speakers.
$536,552 spent26% of program spendingLawyer Referral Service - The referral service assists the general public by providing a means by which any person who can afford to pay a reasonable fee for legal services may be informed of and referred to a member of the Association's Lawyer Referral Service panel.
$227,640 spent11% of program spendingMiscellaneous -Various expenses are paid by the Association to generally further bar purposes.
$103,725 spent5% of program spendingAddressing Services - The Association sells a list of names and addresses of its members only to persons or groups who are (1)running for a political office for which membership in the legal profession is a prerequisite or (2)law firms (comprised of lawyers who are members of the Association) that wish to make professional announcements, provided the content of the announcement is approved by the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Association.
$41,490 spent2% of program spendingProbate Manuals and Legal Forms Sales - The Association sells probate manuals and sells standardized preprinted real estate forms for use in typical real estate transactions and standardized preprinted Uniform Commercial Code ("UCC") forms for use in typical financing transactions.
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,074,501.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $5.4M to $6.4M (+17%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Alicia Hernandez
Executive Director
Board chair
Lauren Black
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $11k.
From the IRS filings of Dallas 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
Dallas Bar Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 Dallas Bar Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
53% of Dallas Bar Association's grant income comes from Texas 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 Dallas 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dallas 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 Dallas Bar Association?
- Dallas Bar Association (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,750 to it, the largest being JACKSON LEWIS FOUNDATION ($26,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dallas Bar Association have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $77,750 in grants to Dallas Bar Association, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dallas Bar Association?
- JACKSON LEWIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dallas Bar Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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