Maryland · Nonprofit
PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC
PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,438,524 to it, the largest being MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($8,588,082). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland Inc does
Mission
To champion equitable access to justice for maryland's marginalized communities by providing legal help, pioneering collaboration with partners, and advocating for economic and social justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Training, recruitment and free legal assistance - the center recruits lawyers to engage in pro bono legal work and matches their expertise to the legal non-profit organization that can use their services. The center also educates the bar for both volunteer and staff lawyers by offering numerous courses covering a wide range of subjects including landlord-tenant, home preservation, family law, employment, elder law, foreclosure defense, immigration, veterans' benefits and consumer protection. Furthermore, the center serves as staff to the court's standing committee on pro bono legal services, offers technical assistance and support to pro bono referral agencies, manages the attorney litigation fund, coordinates pro bono mentors, operates a professional skills academy, and supports the local pro bono committees in each jurisdiction. The center's direct service projects focus on legal needs in particularly underserved areas, with legal clinics in courthouses and in at-risk communities.for more than a decade, pbrc has provided direct legal assistance to individuals and families in need through both courthouse and community clinics. Annually, the organization directly serves about…
$4,495,617 spent99% of program spendingConference - the annual partners for justice conference, pbrc's signature event, was held on may 21st, 2025. The registration totaled over 300 and covered a wide range of topics from which attendees could choose, as well as several high-level speakers. Those not participating on the planning committee or panels were charged a fee. The center also co-hosted a veterans legal assistance conference & training on april 4, 2025.
$61,382 spent$863 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,556,999.
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 $3.5M to $4.4M (+28%).
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 42% · 2018 32% · 2019 26% · 2020 31% · 2021 41% · 2022 34% · 2023 52% · 2024 31% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 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
Sharon Goldsmith
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $163k → $1.8M.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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: $454k from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Maryland State Bar Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 funders by total. 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
PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 94% · 2019 93% · 2020 74% · 2021 70% · 2022 60% · 2023 90% — broadly stable.
“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
31% of PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
99% of PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $231k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC 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
Government funding PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.7M on record.
- Grant$3.7M
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 PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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
- Maryland State Bar Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC: 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 PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC?
- PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,438,524 to it, the largest being MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($8,588,082). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $12,438,524 in grants to PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC?
- MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,588,082 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 25 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