Texas · Nonprofit
SMITH COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION
SMITH COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being BYERS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $352k
What Smith County Bar Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Smith County Bar Foundation is to further justice and promote the rule of law by providing resources and education to our community. Established in 2002, the Smith County Bar Foundation serves as the charitable giving arm of the smith county bar association.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Law day is a national program, held annually, designed to educate the public of their rights and responsibilities under our country's rule of law. As part of law day, the Smith County Bar Foundation hosts poster and essay contests for smith county students (public, private, and home-school). Additionally, law day is an opportunity to recognize attorneys, paralegals and community members that have had significant impact on the legal community. The celebration culminates in a recognition luncheon.
$30,131 spent43% of program spendingConstitution day is another national program, designed to celebrate and promote the backbone of our country - the us constitution. While constitution day efforts focus on high school and college youth, it is available to anyone interested in learning more about our constitution and the legal profession. The scbf facilitates the day, providing speakers, materials, and other resources needed.
$11,372 spent16% of program spendingCommunity outreach and engagement is at the core of the scbf mission. Through the provision of a variety of resources, including volunteers, grants, scholarships, education opportunities, and more, the scbf works to continually support justice and promote the rule of law. One of the key community outreach projects is the people's law school. People's law school (pls), a free event that is open to the public, has grown significantly in size and scope over the past four years. Pls provides classes on variety of legal topics, taught by knowledgeable and experienced legal professionals. The scbf also facilitates a volunteer attorney program for member attorneys and the general public. What initially started as a day-event that assisted lone star legal aid with client outreach, the volunteer attorney program has grown to an online feature thatallows anyone, at any time, to submit a request for legal assistance/advice from a group of 30+ attorneys. Attorneys then reach out to the person to provide direct assistance.
$28,107 spent40% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $69,610.
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 2021 to 2022, from $374k to $303k (−19%).
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.
87% of SMITH COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SMITH 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
SMITH COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
“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 SMITH COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas 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.
Against its field
SMITH COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SMITH 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SMITH 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 SMITH COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION?
- SMITH COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being BYERS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SMITH COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,000 in grants to SMITH COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of SMITH COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION?
- BYERS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SMITH COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 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