Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$374,603

Total expenses

$306,931

Contributions and grants received

$192,190

Grants paid

$159,000

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$189,709

Other revenue

-$7,296

Total assets, end of year

$5,146,701

Total liabilities, end of year

$51,391

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$5,095,310

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$171,767

Management and general expenses

$135,164

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$171,767

Program services were 56.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• Scholarships: Foundation scholarships promote the practice of federal law and help young adults pursue university and law school education, ushering in a new generation of bright professionals, attorneys, and judges.The Robert A. McNew Law Student Scholarship - promotes the practice of federal law by awarding a scholarship to a law student. The scholarship is awarded to a current law student who is a Federal Bar Association law student associate member in good standing or has an interest in federal practice. Applicants must exhibit professionalism and high character in their personal and professional lives as demonstrated in application materials. See Schedule O for continuation

  Expenses $62,500 · Grants $62,500

• Chapter Community Outreach Grants - The Foundation provides funding to support projects and initiatives that provide legal services in local communities. Projects must align with the Foundation's mission.Pathways to the Profession Grants - The Foundation provides funding to support educational, community service, or outreach projects and initiatives that support pathway programs and events that encourage high school, college and law school students, and newer lawyers, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds, to pursue and succeed in a legal career through educational, networking, mentorship programs and other opportunities. Projects must align with the Foundation's mission. See Schedule O for continuation

  Expenses $57,000 · Grants $57,000

• Awards and Recognition Programs: The Foundation funds the following FBA awards and recognition, through generous donations given for these purposes:Elaine R. "Boots" Fisher Award - This award is intended to stimulate, encourage, and recognize exemplary community, public and charitable service by members of the FBA. The Foundation makes an annual charitable contribution of $1,000 to an organization for which an FBA member has performed outstanding public service.See Schedule O for continuation

  Expenses $38,267 · Grants $25,500

• Judicial Research and Education: From time to time, the Foundation provides support for the conduct of research, programs, and education relating to the federal courts and federal jurisprudence. This program provides funding and other support for analytical research and educational programs and activities on a broad range of subject matters, including the history and role of the federal court system and the judiciary, the structure and operation of the courts, the independence of the judiciary, federal jurisprudence, and the relevance of the rule of law to society.Moot Court Competition - The Foundation provided financial support to the Thurgood Marshall Memorial Moot Court Competition, sponsored by the Federal Bar Association's Younger Lawyers Division.The Foundation fiscally supported The Justice & Democracy Centers of Minnesota Project for FBA Minnesota.The Justice & Democracy Centers of Minnesota opened the first location inside the Warren E. Burger Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in downtown St. Paul. The second center will be inaugurated in 2025-2026 in the federal courthouse in Minneapolis.

  Expenses $14,000 · Grants $14,000

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• Federal Bar Association

  $16,500

  Moot Court Sponsorship,Judicial Intern Academy, and Pride in ADR

• Federal Bar Association Chapter for the Districts of Kansas and Western Dis

  $11,000

  Shaw Public Service Award/ Chapter Community Outreach Grant

• Orange County Chapter Of The Federal Bar Association

  $10,000

  Shaw Public Service Award

• Minnesota Chapter Federal Bar Association

  $6,000

  Diversity Grant/ Chapter Community Outreach Grant

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• Federal Bar Association

  501(c)(6) · Premier bar association serving the federal practitioner & judiciary. · DC

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

15 May 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

202511369349301326

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