Virginia · Nonprofit
GREATER RICHMOND BAR FOUNDATION
GREATER RICHMOND BAR FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $680,615 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($400,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $285k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $681k
- Net assets
- $383k
What Greater Richmond Bar Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Greater Richmond Bar Foundation is to expand access to justice by mobilizing, training, and connecting attorneys to pro bono clients. In the commonwealth of virignia, grbf serves as a hub of pro bono service and outreach to the community. Through strategic planning, centralized communications, and support, we assess priority needs for pro bono services and then connect lawyers to these opportunities to serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pro bono clearinghouse: recruit, train, and manage attorney volunteers to provide pro bono legal services to virginia nonprofit organizations through the nonprofit clearinghouse, identifying and collaborating with virginia nonprofits in need of basic civil legal services. Provide free basic legal seminars to nonprofits staff members.
$68,271 spentof which $7,500 as grants29% of program spendingEviction diversion program: recruit, train, manage attorney and non attorney volunteers and work with community partners to help tenants and landlords avoid eviction and stabilize housing in the richmond metropolitan area. Work with community partners to develop and refine outreach, communication, and education efforts related to access to affordable housing.
$101,870 spent43% of program spendingTriage and direct service: collaborate with legal aid and other community partners to assess and prioritize needs and recruit, train, and connect pro bono legal volunteers to current needs via the triage program and wills clinics. Provide educational, administrative, mentoring, and technological support to ensure the success of pro bono volunteers.
$68,271 spent29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $238,412.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $337k to $476k (+41%).
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 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of GREATER RICHMOND BAR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $25k → $475k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GREATER RICHMOND 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
GREATER RICHMOND BAR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 GREATER RICHMOND BAR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 75% · 2019 49% · 2020 91% · 2021 77% · 2022 77% · 2023 84% — 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 GREATER RICHMOND BAR FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
71% of GREATER RICHMOND 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 $197k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $484k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
GREATER RICHMOND BAR FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GREATER RICHMOND 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 GREATER RICHMOND 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 GREATER RICHMOND BAR FOUNDATION?
- GREATER RICHMOND BAR FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $680,615 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($400,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREATER RICHMOND BAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $680,615 in grants to GREATER RICHMOND BAR FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER RICHMOND BAR FOUNDATION?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER RICHMOND BAR FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 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