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MIDDLESEX COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION INC

MIDDLESEX COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $43,000 to it, the largest being Massachusetts Bar Foundation Inc ($43,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$493k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$43k
Net assets
$170k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Middlesex County Bar Association Inc does

Mission

The Middlesex County Bar Association is a professional assoc. committed to serving the Middlesex County legal community and the general public. The MCBA seeks to enhance member satisfaction by providing a variety of services that stimulate professional growth and personal contacts, assist in the practice of law and public service.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The mcba provides a variety of services that stimulate professional growth and personal contacts, assist in the practice of law and provide opportunity for meaningful public service. These services include sponsorships of meetings, seminars and social events.

    $474,833 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $474,833.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($476k) Expenses 100 ($450k) Net assets 100 ($148k)2018 Revenue 92 ($436k) Expenses 98 ($442k) Net assets 96 ($142k)2019 Revenue 97 ($461k) Expenses 96 ($432k) Net assets 115 ($170k)2020 Revenue 76 ($361k) Expenses 90 ($406k) Net assets 85 ($126k)2021 Revenue 103 ($492k) Expenses 80 ($362k) Net assets 173 ($255k)2022 Revenue 84 ($399k) Expenses 103 ($463k) Net assets 130 ($192k)2023 Revenue 110 ($522k) Expenses 124 ($557k) Net assets 106 ($158k)2024 Revenue 101 ($480k) Expenses 105 ($475k) Net assets 110 ($163k)2025 Revenue 104 ($493k) Expenses 108 ($487k) Net assets 115 ($170k)
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Revenue (104)Expenses (108)Net assets (115)

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 $126k to $255k (+103%).

$148k
$142k
$171k
$126k
$255k
$192k
$158k
$163k
$170k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’17
−$6k
’18
$28k
’19
−$45k
’20
$130k
’21
−$64k
’22
−$35k
’23
$5k
’24
$7k
’25
4.2
months of
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

Jonathan Cowles

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed232324131313131313
Joined·+4+3+1+7+6+7+6+6
No longer listed·421276766
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $12k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
total
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of MIDDLESEX COUNTY 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.

Where its funders are

MIDDLESEX COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 1 state in all.

MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
New Jersey out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MIDDLESEX COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION INC

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In New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

24
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Middlesex County Bar Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds MIDDLESEX COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION INC?
MIDDLESEX COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $43,000 to it, the largest being Massachusetts Bar Foundation Inc ($43,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MIDDLESEX COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $43,000 in grants to MIDDLESEX COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MIDDLESEX COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION INC?
Massachusetts Bar Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $43,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MIDDLESEX COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 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