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THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC
THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,219,971 to it, the largest being FLORIDA ATTORNEYS CHARITABLE TRUST INC ($741,202). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $273M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $522M
What The Florida Bar Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of the florida bar foundation, inc. Is to increase access to the justice system for people of limited means. The florida bar foundation funds legal services, develops innovative tools and programs, and supports legal aid providers and the courts. For a more in-depth review of the foundation's grants:https://fundingfla.org
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Legal assistance for the poor:in 2024-2025, approved grant awards included children's legal services, iota distributions and the loan repayment assistance program (lrap). Children's legal services grantees assist needy children in critical areas that affect their safety, well-being and future development. Iota distributions support grantees' efforts to increase access to florida's justice system and/or to promote pro bono public service by qualified legal providers through the provision or facilitation of free direct legal services to low-income clients. Through lrap, student loans were forgiven for 136 attorneys at legal aid organizations, strengthening and expanding legal assistance for the poor by supporting the recruitment and retention of the most qualified civil legal aid staff attorneys.other 2024-2025 projects included: 1) coordinating and partially subsidizing online legal research services to legal assistance grantees at a significantly reduced rate, with the foundation facilitating centralized billing for a statewide contract with international legal research firm reuters thomson/westlaw; and 2) continued partial subsidies to grantees for an online case management…
$90,719,371 spentof which $90,257,871 as grants95% of program spendingImprovements in the administration of justice:in 2024-2025, approved grant awards included continued funding for the florida innocence project, which works to exonerate floridians for crimes they did not commit, to florida's children first, which works to improve the child welfare system, and to caba pro bono legal services to assist neurodivergent persons with legal matters.
$800,000 spentof which $800,000 as grants1% of program spendingLaw student assistance:the foundation continued to provide funding to florida state university college of law for a clinic eliminating economic barriers for immigrant and farmworkers. Grants were also approved to fund 14 civil legal aid summer fellows from seven law schools.
$159,738 spentof which $159,738 as grants0% of program spendingPro bono partnerships:"pro bono" roughly translates to "for the good of the public and generally encompasses lawyers representing, at no charge, persons who cannot otherwise afford to hire an attorney. The foundation works to be a hub and connector between law firms, law schools, the judiciary, legal aid programs and other stakeholders to increase awareness of and create pro bono opportunities.the florida bar foundation supports the florida pro bono coordinators association to expand pro bono efforts and opportunities and create further partnerships. The foundation continues to fund and run floridaprobonomatters.org, an online referral system that enables lawyers to search for and take pro bono cases across the state. Pro bono support and enhancement grants were approved to support and enhance pro bono programs and efforts of non-legal services corporation-funded grantees.
$3,520,535 spentof which $3,459,847 as grants4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $95,199,644.
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 $90M to $338M (+275%).
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: 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC’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. 1 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
Dominic C Mackenzie
Executive director/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $366k → $33k.
3 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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: $5k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way Miami Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC’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 FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 97% · 2019 71% · 2020 65% · 2021 69% · 2022 87% · 2023 47% — 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.
How long its funders stay
35% of THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% 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
77% of THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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
THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14 crime & legal nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- DUES - GENERAL $1k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $1k
- FEES-GENERAL-FOR SERVICE $730
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $100
- FEES - GENERAL-FOR SERVICE $50
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 THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% 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
- The Florida Bar Endowment Trust · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC?
- THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,219,971 to it, the largest being FLORIDA ATTORNEYS CHARITABLE TRUST INC ($741,202). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,219,971 in grants to THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC?
- FLORIDA ATTORNEYS CHARITABLE TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $741,202 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 28 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