Maryland · Nonprofit
MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INC
MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,892 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHOR ($40,892). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Maryland State Bar Association Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to effectively represent maryland's lawyers, to provide member services and to promote professionalism, diversity in the legal profession, access to justice, service to the public, and respect for the rule of law.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Msba develops and publishes legal content to educate and support members in their practice. Content includes, but is not limited to, continuing legal education (cles), coursebooks and treatises, electronic newsletters, blogs and articles, and the maryland bar journal. Msba hosts approximately 80 live (in-person or virtual) cles per year, publishes 8-12 new or updated coursebooks or treatises, and distributes a weekly electronic newsletter containing 8-10 blogs and articles. The maryland bar journal is msba's premier legal content publication, published and printed 3-4 times per year.through the access to justice commission, the msba works with the judiciary, civil legal aid organizations, and other community organizations to improve access to the judicial system.msba also hosts an electronic member directory, a comprehensive directory of members, court information, and government agencies.
Msba is organized into sections to promote the interests of particular segments of membership. The 25+ sections focus on legal content and education for their specific practice areas and affinity groups. Sections provide updates on legislative and legal changes in their respective practice areas, provide mentoring and networking opportunities, and publish blogs and electronic newsletters to support members.
Msba offers an annual legal summit filled with over 70+ educational sessions ranging from thought leadership to nuts & bolts sessions on specific areas of the law. The legal summit also provides networking opportunities and exposure to msba leadership.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2017 to 2018, from $6.1M to $3.5M (−43%).
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: 2022 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Rima Kikani
Ysl chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $1k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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: $5k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Maryland Bar Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INC’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
MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
98% 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 MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 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
98% of MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INC'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maryland funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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.
Organizations like MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INC
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Pro Bono Resource Center Inc · exempt
- Legal Aid Bureau Inc · exempt
- Maryland Bar Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INC: 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 MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INC?
- MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,892 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHOR ($40,892). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $41,892 in grants to MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE EASTERN SHOR is the largest funder on record, with $40,892 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing