Illinois · Nonprofit
Hellenic Bar Association Foundation
Hellenic Bar Association Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,485 to it, the largest being The Renaissance Fund NFP ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $189k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $746k
What Hellenic Bar Association Foundation does
Mission
To apply its income and all or any part of its principal to: (1) Support programs and organizations which may be expected to contribute to the administration of justice and of the legal services available to the public with particular reference to the State of Illinois; (2) Support any program or organization whose purposes and operations are exclusively charitable, scientific, literary or educational; (3) Foster and maintain the honor and integrity of the profession of the law; (4) Promote the study of the law and research therein, the diffusion of knowledge thereof, and the continuing education of lawyers; (5) Provide support organizations established to provide legal services through staff attorneys or unpaid volunteers to persons who find it difficult to obtain such services through normal channels.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarship ball paying tribute to scholarship recipients and distinguished honorees in the legal profession. Used to promote public understanding of the role of hellenism in the law and cultivate social relationships among its members. Likewise, used to promote the interests of the public and advocate for the legal rights of the people of the united states.
$80,000 spentof which $80,000 as grants94% of program spendingLaw day essay contest for elementary school students.
$5,299 spentof which $1,600 as grants6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $85,299.
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 $416k to $600k (+44%).
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: 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Hellenic Bar Association Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Athena Farmakis
Chair of Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $13k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Hellenic Bar Association 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
Hellenic Bar Association Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 89%; 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: 2017 86% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 84% · 2022 66% · 2023 60% — 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
89% of Hellenic Bar Association Foundation's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Hellenic Bar Association Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Hellenic Bar Association 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hellenic Bar Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hellenic Bar Association 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 Hellenic Bar Association Foundation?
- Hellenic Bar Association Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,485 to it, the largest being The Renaissance Fund NFP ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hellenic Bar Association Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $60,485 in grants to Hellenic Bar Association Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hellenic Bar Association Foundation?
- The Renaissance Fund NFP is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hellenic Bar Association Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing