California · Nonprofit
THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $723,282 to it, the largest being CRANKSTART FOUNDATION ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Kelson Foundationshared funders
- Irell & Manella Foundationportfolio match
- Munger Tolles & Olson Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $53k → $73k.
From the IRS filings of THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO’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
THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — diversifying over time.
“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
70% of THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO's grant income comes from California 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Kelson Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Irell & Manella Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Munger Tolles & Olson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arnold & Porter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Corporate Counsel Group Returnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lee and Linda Meier Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sullivan & Cromwell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Janet and Clint Reilly Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William Fries II Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Boss Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dla Piper Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Justice & Diversity Center of the Basf · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO?
- THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $723,282 to it, the largest being CRANKSTART FOUNDATION ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $723,282 in grants to THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO?
- CRANKSTART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO 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.
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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing