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TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION D/B/A TACOMAPROBONO COMMUNITY LAWYERS
TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION D/B/A TACOMAPROBONO COMMUNITY LAWYERS (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,494,054 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($2,375,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Foundation D/B/A Tacomaprobono Community Lawyers does
Mission
Funding legal aid programs in pierce county washinigton, which combat systemic inequities by providing civil legal aid to low income, under served population experiencing barriers to accessing the civil justice system.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provides legal services to address the root causes of homelessness, provides community outreach, information on covid and eviction moratorium issues, and provides civil legal services to civtims of crime.
$2,776,537 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,776,537.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $742k to $2.9M (+292%).
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: 2019 70% · 2020 53% · 2021 52% · 2022 69% · 2023 55% · 2024 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION D/B/A TACOMAPROBONO COMMUNITY LAWYERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $277k → $16.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION D/B/A TACOMAPROBONO COMMUNITY LAWYERS’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
TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION D/B/A TACOMAPROBONO COMMUNITY LAWYERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
100% 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 TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION D/B/A TACOMAPROBONO COMMUNITY LAWYERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 63% · 2021 97% · 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 TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION D/B/A TACOMAPROBONO COMMUNITY LAWYERS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION D/B/A TACOMAPROBONO COMMUNITY LAWYERS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION D/B/A TACOMAPROBONO COMMUNITY LAWYERS
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION D/B/A TACOMAPROBONO COMMUNITY LAWYERS: 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 TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION D/B/A TACOMAPROBONO COMMUNITY LAWYERS?
- TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION D/B/A TACOMAPROBONO COMMUNITY LAWYERS (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,494,054 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($2,375,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION D/B/A TACOMAPROBONO COMMUNITY LAWYERS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $2,494,054 in grants to TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION D/B/A TACOMAPROBONO COMMUNITY LAWYERS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION D/B/A TACOMAPROBONO COMMUNITY LAWYERS?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION D/B/A TACOMAPROBONO COMMUNITY LAWYERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), 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