Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FRANKLIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ADVOCATES INC
FRANKLIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ADVOCATES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $269,500 to it, the largest being Massachusetts Bar Foundation Inc ($269,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $270k
- Net assets
- $1k
What Franklin County Bar Association Advocates Inc does
Mission
Free legal representation and consultations to the less fortunate
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Programs provide and pay for legal representation and consultation. Included is representation for individuals that are deemed to be indigent by the court. The program also serves low income children in noncriminal matters and both low income battered spouses and low income elders.
$79,363 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $79,363.
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 2022 to 2023, from $30k to $803 (−97%).
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.
100% of FRANKLIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ADVOCATES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $38k → $45k.
From the IRS filings of FRANKLIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ADVOCATES INC’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
100% of FRANKLIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ADVOCATES INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts 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.
Against its field
FRANKLIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ADVOCATES INC has grown faster than half of the 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRANKLIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ADVOCATES 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRANKLIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ADVOCATES INC: 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 FRANKLIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ADVOCATES INC?
- FRANKLIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ADVOCATES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $269,500 to it, the largest being Massachusetts Bar Foundation Inc ($269,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRANKLIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ADVOCATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $269,500 in grants to FRANKLIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ADVOCATES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRANKLIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ADVOCATES INC?
- Massachusetts Bar Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $269,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRANKLIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ADVOCATES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2017–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing