Ohio · Nonprofit
OHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION
OHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being Ohio Access to Justice Foundation ($11,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $19M
What Ohio State Bar Association does
Mission
The Ohio State Bar Association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. The association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Continuing legal education: the Ohio State Bar Association (osba), through its continuing legal eduction program, provides live in-person seminars, live interactive webinars (liws), quick webcasts (qwcs), and self-study cle to osba members, ohio lawyers and related professionals. Annually, the osba produces and administers approximately 50 live programs, 80 liws, and over 90 qwcs programs. Video programs are offered to local bars and law firms for replay viewing. Many of the live, liw and qwc programs were videotaped for additional programming through self-study cle downloads. The programs are repurposed in its state-of-the-art broadcast studio. Many of the live programs include a variety of high level institutes, including the midwest labor and employment law conference, the advanced probate law seminar, the corporate counsel institute, the environmental law, solo and small firm institute, and the osba legal technology and practice management conference.
Publications: the osba publishes a variety of different reports, magazines, newsletters, and other informational resources including social media. Osba publishes the Ohio State Bar Association report through a daily email, as a resource. This report provides a significant amount of information and/or cases released from the ohio supreme court and selected cases from the ohio appellate courts. Osba also publishes the ohio lawyer. This membership magazine features articles on legal issues and trends to help lawyers stay current and shares in-depth information on the latest legal developments with their colleagues around the state. Additional publications by the osba include a variety of different paper and electronic newsletters. Some of the newsletters published by the osba include the paralegal/legal assistant news, section newsletters, and special publications.
Membership retention & engagement services: the osba provides a variety of programs designed to improve and enhance the legal profession and the legal services available to the public. The member relations, services and engagement department is responsible for recruiting and retaining osba members and engaging legal professionals who are not osba members. This department is also responsible for the member services center where calls from consumers of legal services, lawyers, and members of the osba are directed for information, referral, and/or other services.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 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 2020 to 2021, from $22M to $26M (+17%).
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: 2023 3% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Mary Amos Augsburger
CEO/secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $341k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ohio State Bar Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money OHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of OHIO STATE 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 OHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
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.
Organizations like OHIO STATE 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Ohio Lawpac · exempt
- Legal Aid of Southeast and Central Ohio · exempt
- Ohio Bar Liability Insurance Company · corp_trust
- 1650 Lake Shore Inc · corp_trust
- Oblic Holdings LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION: 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 OHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION?
- OHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being Ohio Access to Justice Foundation ($11,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $11,000 in grants to OHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of OHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION?
- Ohio Access to Justice Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 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