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FOUNDATION OF THE FEDERAL BAR ASSOCIATION

EIN 52-0741814 ARLINGTON, VA

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Revenue 2024
$722,541
Expenses 2024
$359,004

Program services were 65.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1280
Street
4250 N FAIRFAX DR STE 301

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 301). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Promote and support legal research and education; advance the science of jurisprudence and facilitate the administration of justice; and foster improvements in the practice of federal law.

  • 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 $82,500 · Grants $82,500

  • 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 $77,784 · Grants $77,784

  • 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 $57,744 · Grants $33,761

  • Expenses $17,500 · Grants $17,500

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Hon Michael Newman

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stephen Jackson

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Bruce Moyer

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Hon Donna Phillips Currault

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Ashley L Belleau

    Historian and Fellows Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Ernest Bartol

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Erin Brown

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Calvert Chipchase

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Karen King

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • David Guerry

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • James R Hammerschmidt

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Rachel Rose

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Stacy King

    Chief Executive Officer

    Total calculated
    $312,626
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $295,527
    Other
    $17,099
    Hours/week
    2 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $245,527 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $50,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $9,303 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $7,796 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $312,626 related

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $722,541
    Expenses
    $359,004
    Contributions
    $488,642
    Grants paid
    $211,545
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $374,603
    Expenses
    $306,931
    Contributions
    $192,190
    Grants paid
    $159,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,827,391
    Expenses
    $541,201
    Contributions
    $2,779,921
    Grants paid
    $366,894

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,006,596
    Expenses
    $464,085
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,114,745

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $783,809
    Expenses
    $148,552
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,918,047

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $191,725
    Expenses
    $230,367
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,176,568

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $219,400
    Expenses
    $172,173
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,136,402

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $224,761
    Expenses
    $239,439
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,081,211

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $261,574
    Expenses
    $254,899
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,072,167

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $198,088
    Expenses
    $217,813
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,003,951

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $124,727
    Expenses
    $110,725
    Assets (EOY)
    $983,538

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $236,880
    Expenses
    $154,110
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,026,764

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $109,784
    Assets (EOY)
    $939,746

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • Federal Bar Association

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

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.