New York · Nonprofit
THE NEW YORK BAR FOUNDATION
THE NEW YORK BAR FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $446,811 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($164,050). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $447k
- Net assets
- $13M
What The New York Bar Foundation does
Mission
The foundation's primary exempt purpose is to advance legal research and (continuted on schedule o) education, to improve the administration of justice, to promote professional ethics and responsibility and service to the public. To cultivate the preservation of the history and traditions of the law, the courts and the legal profession. To encourage better public understanding of our legal heritage. To aid in making legal institutions more responsive to the public interest. To sponsor studies, conferences, publications, and any and all other means of discourse, communication, and exchange of ideas appropriate to the foregoing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
>> awards and grants: the foundation makes various program service awards and grants to charitable and other tax-exempt organizations. Individual awards and grants in excess of $5,000 are detailed, along with other relevant information of the grantee/organization, on form 990, schedule I, part ii.>> cy pres administration: the foundation has, from time to time, received distributions of various cy pres (and special court ordered) funds relating to unclaimed and undistributed monies available under various class action settlements. The court's approval of these settlements generally provides that the foundation will oversee and administer their distribution.
$1,013,607 spentof which $912,798 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,013,607.
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 $15M to $12M (−20%).
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: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of THE NEW YORK BAR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
James R Barnes
Chair of the fellows
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $107k → $13k.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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: $847k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest New York State Bar Association). These are real filings, and they are not money THE NEW YORK BAR FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE NEW YORK 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
THE NEW YORK BAR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 NEW YORK BAR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 67% · 2019 99% · 2020 90% · 2021 44% · 2022 44% · 2023 48% — 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
33% of THE NEW YORK BAR FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
58% of THE NEW YORK BAR FOUNDATION'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 $188k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $259k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 NEW YORK BAR FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE NEW YORK 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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
- New York State Bar Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NEW YORK 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 THE NEW YORK BAR FOUNDATION?
- THE NEW YORK BAR FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $446,811 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($164,050). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE NEW YORK BAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $446,811 in grants to THE NEW YORK BAR FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NEW YORK BAR FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $164,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NEW YORK BAR FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 26 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