Arizona · Nonprofit
MARICOPA COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION
MARICOPA COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,041 to it, the largest being LITTLER MENDELSON FOUNDATION INC ($4,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $193k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $59k
What Maricopa County Bar Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Maricopa County Bar Foundation is to support the justice-related public service and educational activities of the maricopa county bar association and other organizations, and to support local pro bono legal service providers that serve low-income residents of maricopa county.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation supports the volunteer lawyers program (vlp) in maricopa county, which is a joint project of community legal services and the maricopa county bar association. Volunteers represent clients with problems related to housing, employment, consumer issues, debt collection, bankruptcy, tax, tort defense, and family law/domestic violence. They provide advice to individuals and families seeking counsel about debt management or defense, and where relief from wage garnishment is needed. If needed, they will recommend or help provide representation in no asset bankruptcy petitions.
$31,900 spentof which $31,900 as grants19% of program spendingThe Maricopa County Bar Foundation's diversity writing program scholarships are designed to promote the recruitment and retention of minority lawyers by offering second-year law students the opportunity to gain practical writing skills and exposure to real-world legal work through internships at private firms. Scholarship recipients are designated by participating firms.
$132,000 spentof which $132,000 as grants77% of program spendingThe foundation offers justice michael d. Ryan scholarships to law students at the asu sandra day o'connor college of law. As part of its mission, the foundation strives to aid law school students from diverse backgrounds with the student loan debt associated with obtaining a law degree. The justice michael d. Ryan scholarships are designed to help students afford their dream of service to the community through law.the foundation also offers a paralegal scholarship.
$8,200 spentof which $8,200 as grants5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $172,100.
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 $63k to $92k (+46%).
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 MARICOPA 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. 2 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
Laurie Williams
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $4k → $16.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Maricopa County Bar Association). These are real filings, and they are not money MARICOPA COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of MARICOPA 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
MARICOPA COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
MARICOPA COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41 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
MARICOPA COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 1,661 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,661 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MARICOPA 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Maricopa County Bar Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARICOPA 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 MARICOPA COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION?
- MARICOPA COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,041 to it, the largest being LITTLER MENDELSON FOUNDATION INC ($4,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARICOPA COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $4,041 in grants to MARICOPA COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARICOPA COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION?
- LITTLER MENDELSON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARICOPA COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2 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