Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION
PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,130 to it, the largest being BERKS COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $20M
What Pennsylvania Bar Association does
Mission
The Pennsylvania Bar Association is a non-profit corporation committed to advancing the science of jurisprudence; to promote the administration of justice; to see that no one, on account of poverty, is denied his or her legal rights; to secure proper legislation; to encourage through legal education; to uphold the honor and dignity of the bar; to promote diversity throughout the profession and to perpetuate the history of the profession and the memory of its members. The Pennsylvania Bar Association maintains committees that study issues of interest to the legal profession, carry out special assignments, provide advisory ethics opinions and monitor the activities of law-related institutions and agencies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pba offers members access to products and services that are designed to help them better manage their practices and provide some of the basic elements needed to operate a business. These benefits range from group insurance products and management consulting services to online legal research and court opinions.during the 2025 year, the association had 6,791 non-paying members and 14,180 paying members.
The pba provides members with several award winning publications and other information resources to help them stay informed of developments and trends in the law that affect their practices. The publications include a biweekly newspaper, a biweekly e-newsletter, a bimonthly magazine, and a scholarly publication that is produced on a quarterly basis.
Pba provides continuing legal education (cle) to lawyers that are timely and of the highest quality for lawyers in every area of practice and at every level of experience. These cle opportunities include live programming, webcasts, webinars, on-demand and simulcasts.the pba also produces a number of meetings and educational conferences for members each year. These range from meetings of sections and committees that provide education and updates in specific areas of law to meetings of pba governing bodies where association policies are developed on topics from those impacting members' practices to improving the law for the citizens of pennsylvania.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 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 2019 to 2020, from $9.9M to $17M (+68%).
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: 2021 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. 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
Matthew Holliday
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $17k → $30.
Left out of every figure on this page: $403k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Pennsylvania Bar Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of PENNSYLVANIA 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.
How concentrated its funding is
PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 47% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 99% · 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 PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Government funding PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$2k
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 PENNSYLVANIA 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Pennsylvania Bar Trust Fund · exempt
- Pennsylvania Bar Assn - PAC · exempt
- Pennsylvania Bar Foundation · exempt
- Pennsylvania Bar Insurance Fund · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNSYLVANIA 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 PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION?
- PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,130 to it, the largest being BERKS COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $85,130 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION?
- BERKS COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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