Washington · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON STATE BAR FOUNDATION
WASHINGTON STATE BAR FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,803 to it, the largest being Legal Foundation of Washington ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WASHINGTON STATE BAR FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 2,529 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,529 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Oscar T and Olivann Hokold Foundationshared funders
- Service Employees International Union Local 775portfolio match
- American Board of Trial Advocates - Chaptersportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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: 2020 0% · 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 4% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of WASHINGTON STATE BAR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $200 → $103.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WASHINGTON STATE 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
WASHINGTON STATE BAR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
98% 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 WASHINGTON STATE BAR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 54% · 2022 100% · 2023 51% — 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
100% of WASHINGTON STATE BAR FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $153 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.
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.
- Oscar T and Olivann Hokold Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- Service Employees International Union Local 775portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Board of Trial Advocates - Chaptersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington Federation of State Employeesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington Education Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington Progress Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ordinary People Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Selinger-Shone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- College Spark Washingtonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kitsap Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Franciscan Foundationshared fundersAZ · backs 15 organizations that share your funders
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 WASHINGTON STATE BAR FOUNDATION
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 Washington
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Washington State Bar Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON STATE 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.
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 WASHINGTON STATE BAR FOUNDATION?
- WASHINGTON STATE BAR FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,803 to it, the largest being Legal Foundation of Washington ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON STATE BAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $40,803 in grants to WASHINGTON STATE BAR FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON STATE BAR FOUNDATION?
- Legal Foundation of Washington is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON STATE BAR FOUNDATION 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 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