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MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INC

EIN 52-0815403 BALTIMORE, MD

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Revenue 2024
$5,345,644
Expenses 2024
$5,309,031

As filed

Subsection
06
Classification
2000
Street
3700 ODONNELL STREET

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION IS TO EFFECTIVELY REPRESENT MARYLAND'S LAWYERS, TO PROVIDE MEMBER SERVICES AND TO PROMOTE PROFESSIONALISM, DIVERSITY IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION, ACCESS TO JUSTICE, SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC, AND RESPECT FOR THE RULE OF LAW.

Activities or mission (Part I)

REPRESENT MARYLAND'S LAWYERS, PROVIDE MEMBER SERVICES & PROMOTE RESPECT FOR THE RULE OF LAW

  • MSBA DEVELOPS AND PUBLISHES LEGAL CONTENT TO EDUCATE AND SUPPORT MEMBERS IN THEIR PRACTICE. CONTENT INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION (CLES), COURSEBOOKS AND TREATISES, ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTERS, BLOGS AND ARTICLES, AND THE MARYLAND BAR JOURNAL. MSBA HOSTS APPROXIMATELY 80 LIVE (IN-PERSON OR VIRTUAL) CLES PER YEAR, PUBLISHES 8-12 NEW OR UPDATED COURSEBOOKS OR TREATISES, AND DISTRIBUTES A WEEKLY ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER CONTAINING 8-10 BLOGS AND ARTICLES. THE MARYLAND BAR JOURNAL IS MSBA'S PREMIER LEGAL CONTENT PUBLICATION, PUBLISHED AND PRINTED 3-4 TIMES PER YEAR.THROUGH THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE COMMISSION, THE MSBA WORKS WITH THE JUDICIARY, CIVIL LEGAL AID ORGANIZATIONS, AND OTHER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM.MSBA ALSO HOSTS AN ELECTRONIC MEMBER DIRECTORY, A COMPREHENSIVE DIRECTORY OF MEMBERS, COURT INFORMATION, AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.

  • MSBA IS ORGANIZED INTO SECTIONS TO PROMOTE THE INTERESTS OF PARTICULAR SEGMENTS OF MEMBERSHIP. THE 25+ SECTIONS FOCUS ON LEGAL CONTENT AND EDUCATION FOR THEIR SPECIFIC PRACTICE AREAS AND AFFINITY GROUPS. SECTIONS PROVIDE UPDATES ON LEGISLATIVE AND LEGAL CHANGES IN THEIR RESPECTIVE PRACTICE AREAS, PROVIDE MENTORING AND NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES, AND PUBLISH BLOGS AND ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTERS TO SUPPORT MEMBERS.

  • MSBA OFFERS AN ANNUAL LEGAL SUMMIT FILLED WITH OVER 70+ EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS RANGING FROM THOUGHT LEADERSHIP TO NUTS & BOLTS SESSIONS ON SPECIFIC AREAS OF THE LAW. THE LEGAL SUMMIT ALSO PROVIDES NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPOSURE TO MSBA LEADERSHIP.

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.

  • Raphael Santini

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Marisa Trasatti

    PRESIDENT ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jason Deloach

    IMM PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Natasha Dartigue

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Johnine Clark

    PARLIMENTARIAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Wm Carl Isler

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Amy Askew

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrew Stone

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Beatrice Thomas

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bryan Saxton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Buffy Giddens

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Charles Jones

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christine Dixon

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Connie Kratovil-Lavelle

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cynthia Leppert

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dawinder Sidhu

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Donald Quinn

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elissa Levan

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elsa Smith

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Erica Suter

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gwen-Marie Davis

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Harry S Johnson

    ABA DELEGATE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hon Lara Weathersbee

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hon Myshala Middleton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James Astrachan

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,345,644
    Expenses
    $5,309,031
    Contributions
    $104,506
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,289,581
    Expenses
    $5,538,483
    Contributions
    $48,998
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,095,991
    Expenses
    $5,551,444
    Contributions
    $26,161
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $6,014,270
    Expenses
    $5,342,627
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,000,960
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,827,194
    Expenses
    $4,173,847
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,957,157
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,287,870
    Expenses
    $4,898,279
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,793,575
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,022,705
    Expenses
    $6,505,585
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,212,583
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,404,665
    Expenses
    $6,376,980
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,499,161
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,224,711
    Expenses
    $5,254,025
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,093,886
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,166,685
    Expenses
    $5,548,226
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,460,619
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,208,028
    Expenses
    $5,225,065
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,707,177
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,591,765
    Expenses
    $5,118,312
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,688,188
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $4,878,672
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,051,178

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.