Maryland · Nonprofit
THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR
THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,050 to it, the largest being ANNE ARUNDEL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($26,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $444k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What The Library Company of the Baltimore Bar does
Mission
The library company of baltimore is a legal research library for judges and lawyers of the baltimore bar. It is supported principally by membership dues, appearance fees, and investment income. No ubi.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Events to promote the library and its mission including various speakers, movie night, and other events
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 $2.0M to $1.6M (−21%).
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.
7% of THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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
Joseph W Bennett Esquire
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $27k → $5k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR’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 LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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 THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR
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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR: 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 THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR?
- THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,050 to it, the largest being ANNE ARUNDEL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($26,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $43,050 in grants to THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR?
- ANNE ARUNDEL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF THE BALTIMORE BAR 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.
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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 2 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