California · Nonprofit
Orange County Bar Foundation
Orange County Bar Foundation (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,570,380 to it, the largest being JEFFREY CARLTON FOUNDATION 105848-000 ($4,137,753). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Orange County Bar Foundation does
Mission
Keeping at-risk youth out of jail, in school, healthy and drug free through education, counseling, and mentoring.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Juvenile crime prevention/substance abuse intervention: shortstop, program shortstop, are taught by volunteer attorneys and legal professionals to approximately 1,600 youths and their families. Stop short of addiction: An intensive program designed to specifically address the needs of first-time juvenile offenders arrested for criminal offenses as well as those having drug abuse problems.
$504,837 spent27% of program spendingHealth education: provides health education groups with risk education services to Latina mothers combined with family counseling to improve family functioning. Also provides comprehensive sexual health education for Latina youth via evidence-based program models.
$445,657 spent$465,518 earned by the program24% of program spendingAcademic and career development: targets Latina high school juniors and seniors from the City of Santa Ana who are interested in entering college but need assistance due to academics, cultural and gender barriers and limited financial resources. Project self allows selected students to participate in an eight week summer paid internship at local law firms, government agencies or local businesses.
$932,599 spent50% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,883,093.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.3M to $3.9M (−8%).
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: 2017 27% · 2018 28% · 2019 21% · 2020 36% · 2021 39% · 2022 30% · 2023 38% · 2024 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Orange County 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. 2 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
Laura Marcum
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $118k → $956k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $81k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Orange County Bar Association Charitable Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money Orange County Bar Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Orange County 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
Orange County Bar Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 88%; 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 51% · 2018 61% · 2019 35% · 2020 76% · 2021 85% · 2022 84% · 2023 86% — 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of Orange County Bar Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Orange County Bar Foundation draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $483k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states 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
Orange County Bar Foundation's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Orange County Bar Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- Department of Education$990k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Orange County 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Orange County 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 Orange County Bar Foundation?
- Orange County Bar Foundation (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,570,380 to it, the largest being JEFFREY CARLTON FOUNDATION 105848-000 ($4,137,753). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Orange County Bar Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $5,570,380 in grants to Orange County Bar Foundation, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Orange County Bar Foundation?
- JEFFREY CARLTON FOUNDATION 105848-000 is the largest funder on record, with $4,137,753 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Orange County Bar Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing