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MONTGOMERY BAR ASSOCIATION

MONTGOMERY BAR ASSOCIATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,554 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA BAR TRUST FUND ($5,554). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.8M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$2.2M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Montgomery Bar Association does

Mission

The mission of the Montgomery Bar Association is to promote professional excellence,facilitate access to justice and protect the integrity of hte legal system through service to our members and community. Montgomery Bar Association embraces its responsibility to provide access to justice for all, empower members to exhibit the highest ethical conduct, civility, and technical competence, and work cooperatively with the judiciary in addressing emerging legal issues in montgomery county.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Montgomery county law reporter - publication of legal journal to keep members informed about legal matters.

    $491,850 spent$706,157 earned by the program
    42% of program spending
  2. Programs and events - meeting, seminars, dinners, and other events for members supervised by various committees of the association

    $421,905 spentof which $35,011 as grants$663,740 earned by the program
    36% of program spending
  3. Bench bar conference

    $213,301 spent$190,485 earned by the program
    18% of program spending
  4. Lawyer referral service, legal directory, and continuing legal education.

    $54,513 spent$93,640 earned by the program
    5% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,181,569.

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 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($3.5M)2018 Revenue 93 ($2.2M) Expenses 99 ($2.4M) Net assets 90 ($3.1M)2019 Revenue 94 ($2.2M) Expenses 93 ($2.3M) Net assets 98 ($3.4M)2020 Revenue 64 ($1.5M) Expenses 72 ($1.7M) Net assets 93 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 78 ($1.8M) Expenses 81 ($2.0M) Net assets 93 ($3.2M)2022 Revenue 80 ($1.9M) Expenses 84 ($2.0M) Net assets 77 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 81 ($1.9M) Expenses 89 ($2.2M) Net assets 73 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 76 ($1.8M) Expenses 83 ($2.0M) Net assets 64 ($2.2M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (76)Expenses (83)Net assets (64)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.8M to $3.2M (−15%).

$3.9M
$3.6M
$3.8M
$3.7M
$3.8M
$3.2M
$3.1M
$2.8M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 18% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$54k
’17
−$190k
’18
−$21k
’19
−$230k
’20
−$118k
’21
−$135k
’22
−$233k
’23
−$196k
’24
1.1
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

Denise Vicario

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2828282725122727
Joined·+8+9+6+9+1+15+6
No longer listed·897111406
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of MONTGOMERY 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 MONTGOMERY BAR ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

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 MONTGOMERY 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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

59% of spending goes to programs.

Program 59%Management 41%Fundraising 0%

Governance

26
board members
96%
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

  • Montgomery Bar Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds MONTGOMERY BAR ASSOCIATION?
MONTGOMERY BAR ASSOCIATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,554 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA BAR TRUST FUND ($5,554). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MONTGOMERY BAR ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,554 in grants to MONTGOMERY BAR ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of MONTGOMERY BAR ASSOCIATION?
PENNSYLVANIA BAR TRUST FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,554 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MONTGOMERY BAR ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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