Minnesota · Nonprofit
HENNEPIN COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION
HENNEPIN COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,655 to it, the largest being ROBINS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ($20,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $254k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $191k
What Hennepin County Bar Foundation does
Mission
The Hennepin County Bar Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable corporation that serves as the charitable arm of the hennepin county bar association. The foundation provides equal access to justice for the people of hennepin county through financial grants to law-related organizations and projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
We did not give community grants this year, only to vln
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The hcbf supports programs that (1) provide legal services to individuals of limited resources, (2) educate the public about the legal system, and (3) contribute to the improvement of the legal system and administration of justice. The foundation derives virtually all of its funding from direct contributions from local hennepin county lawyers, area law firms, and other organizations in the legal arena. Contributions to the hcbf provide far-reaching support to a wide range of legal service programs in hennepin county. Grant recipients serve diverse clients and populations throughout hennepin county and ensure that those in need receive legal services and access to justice from agencies in their communities. Funding from the foundation has facilitate the creation and continued existence of programs that address the legal needs of indigent residents of hennepin county, including volunteer lawyers network, legal aid, advocates for human rights, the legal rights center, and children's law center.
$120,000 spentof which $120,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $120,000.
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 $220k to $451k (+105%).
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.
92% of HENNEPIN COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Cheryl Dalby
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $4k → $20k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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: $1.0M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hennepin County Bar Association). These are real filings, and they are not money HENNEPIN COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of HENNEPIN COUNTY 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
HENNEPIN COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
29% 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 HENNEPIN COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 96% · 2023 50% — 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
100% of HENNEPIN COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
HENNEPIN COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 HENNEPIN COUNTY 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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
- Hennepin County Bar Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HENNEPIN COUNTY 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 HENNEPIN COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION?
- HENNEPIN COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,655 to it, the largest being ROBINS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ($20,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HENNEPIN COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $34,655 in grants to HENNEPIN COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HENNEPIN COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION?
- ROBINS KAPLAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HENNEPIN COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2017–2025), 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