New Jersey · Nonprofit
New Jersey State Bar Foundation
New Jersey State Bar Foundation (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,125 to it, the largest being DAVID AND MARILYN KRUPNICK FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.4M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $17M
What New Jersey State Bar Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to: - foster an increased awareness, appreciation and knowledge of law and the legal system among new jersey residents; - serve as the statewide resource for law-related education for the public; - provide opportunities for lawyers to serve the public through the foundation's programs; and - foster professionalism and pride in the profession of law through public service. Founded in 1958, the New Jersey State Bar Foundation is the charitable and educational foundation of the new jersey state bar association. The purpose of the organization is to carry out the charitable, scientific, literary and educational purposes of new jersey state bar association and others in the areas of the profession of law and the administration of justice. The organization offers free and comprehensive public education programs. In addition to its public and school-based activities, the organization presents law-related seminars, conducts conflict resolution training, publi
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Core education programs - provide law-related and violence prevention education to the public through trainings, seminars, workshops, video-loan-library, publications and speaker's bureau.
$2,767,763 spent$532,858 earned by the program45% of program spendingFellowships - provide funding for salary and expenses related to law school clincal programs.
$3,346,703 spentof which $3,346,703 as grants55% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,114,466.
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 2023 to 2024, from $12M to $16M (+42%).
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 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of New Jersey State Bar Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Angela C Scheck
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $26k → $50.
1 of 3 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: $500 from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Law Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money New Jersey State Bar Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of New Jersey State 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
New Jersey State Bar Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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 95% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of New Jersey State Bar Foundation's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $275 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
New Jersey State Bar Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like New Jersey State 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- New Jersey State Bar Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for New Jersey State 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 New Jersey State Bar Foundation?
- New Jersey State Bar Foundation (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,125 to it, the largest being DAVID AND MARILYN KRUPNICK FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does New Jersey State Bar Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $29,125 in grants to New Jersey State Bar Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New Jersey State Bar Foundation?
- DAVID AND MARILYN KRUPNICK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New Jersey State Bar Foundation 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.
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 3 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