Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION
IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,922 to it, the largest being IOWA STATE BAR REVIEW SCHOOL INC ($25,922). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $7.9M
What Iowa State Bar Association does
Mission
Isba is a leading voice and trusted collaborator in helping its members serve their clients, the public, and the judicial system through engagement, advancements in law, innovation, and access to justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Committee and section expenses - the isba has 24 substantive law sections and 36 committees with over 600 volunteer participants. Sections - a section is comprised of lawyers who practice in similar legal specialties. Each section is designed to offer closer association between attorneys engaged in specialized fields of law, thus providing the opportunity to share professional experiences. To accomplish this, many sections publish newsletters/reports covering current topics, pending and adopted legislation, and recent updates on cases. Committees - committees are established by the board of directors and appointed by the president-elect to consider matters of interest to the bar membership, update professional materials, recommend changes to policies and procedures, and study various legal issues affecting the legal profession and the public. Law and civic education - the "know your constitution" committee of the young lawyers division of the Iowa State Bar Association offers one of the best and most publicized law-related educational programs in the state of iowa. Each fall, a quiz with 50 multiple choice questions and one essay question is distributed to high school students all…
$599,118 spent32% of program spendingMembership services - member services are programs and services provided by the isba in order to assist members in the practice of law. These services range from practice manuals, forms, technology services, and free legal research.
$541,912 spent29% of program spendingContinued legal education (cle) - the isba cle department is dedicated to meeting the educational needs of isba members. Over 40 cle seminars are held annually. Iowa cle seminars are offered throughout the state of iowa, via webcasts and teleconference. They include half-day, full-day, multi- day sessions, typically divided into segments of various lengths. The programs address substantive areas and legal procedures, legal ethics, elimination of bias, law office management, and professional development. Iowa cle publishes outlines and materials to accompany its education courses, as well as other books, pamphlets and materials containing practice guides, legal forms, and reference information.
$515,626 spent27% of program spendingLegislative program - each year the isba's affirmative legislative program includes proposals for enactment by iowa's legislature for the benefit of iowa's citizens. For example, after extensive study the association has recommended adoption and/or amendment of the probate code, trust code, commercial code, and business corporation act. It has also been active in studies and recommendations concerning community-based corrections programs for drug-addicted, non-violent criminal offenders; for improvements in laws governing electronic commerce; and in proposed legislation for the modernization of real estate records.
$237,327 spent13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,893,983.
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.
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 $7.6M to $8.8M (+16%).
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: 2020 0% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $550k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Iowa State Bar Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION’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 IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
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.
Organizations like IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Iowa State Bar Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION: 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 IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION?
- IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,922 to it, the largest being IOWA STATE BAR REVIEW SCHOOL INC ($25,922). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,922 in grants to IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION?
- IOWA STATE BAR REVIEW SCHOOL INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,922 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 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