Texas · Nonprofit
DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION
DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,525 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($72,850). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $133k
- Net assets
- $10M
What Dallas Bar Foundation does
Mission
The purpose or purposes for which the Foundation is organized are educational and charitable, and to that end the corporation is formed to sponsor and encourage research, publications, institutes and forums for the furtherance of justice under the law; to establish scholarships and otherwise promote the study of law and research therein and the continuing education of lawyers; to support legal aid for the indigent; to preserve historical structures, display historical memorabilia and conduct historical observances.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Dallas Bar Foundation Scholarship and Awards Programs are described below: The Sarah T. Hughes Scholarship is granted by the Dallas Bar Foundation to enable talented law students to obtain a legal education in our community with the purpose of expanding access and opportunity for individuals whose experiences and perspectives are not widely represented in the legal community of North Texas. The Scholarship supports students whose journeys to law school reflect determination, resilience, and a strong sense of purpose by overcoming hardships or difficult paths. The Dallas Bar Foundation encourages applicants who are first in their families to attend higher education; have entered law school after pursuing other careers or after overcoming personal or societal challenges; or who balance work, family, or military service while pursuing their legal education. Collins Clerkships provide six-week summer internships to law students at the Fifth District Court of Appeals, the Dallas County District Attorney's Office, the Dallas County Public Defender's Office, the Dallas City Attorney's Office or the City of Irivng Attorney's Office, a Dallas Court Civil District Court. The Stephen H.…
$384,200 spentof which $291,269 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $384,200.
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 $9.2M to $10M (+13%).
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.
47% of DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Elizabeth Philipp
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $11k → $13k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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: $12k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities Foundation of Texas Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of DALLAS 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
DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
61% 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 FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 59% · 2019 56% · 2020 81% · 2021 86% · 2023 38% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
61% of DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $52k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like DALLAS 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- dallas bar association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DALLAS 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 DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION?
- DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,525 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($72,850). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $132,525 in grants to DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $72,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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