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CINCINNATI BAR FOUNDATION

EIN 31-6059929 CINCINNATI, OH

Revenue 2024
$496,716
Expenses 2024
$299,108

Program services were 72.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I02
Classification
1000
Street
225 EAST SIXTH STREET 2ND FLOOR

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

Promoting justice and changing lives through the law with the desire to serve the legal profession, the justice system and the Greater Cincinnati community. The Cincinnati Bar Foundation concentrates grant-making efforts in the following four areas: 1. Knowledge and understanding of and respect for the law in the community, particularly with young people, 2. Improving the quality and administration of justice in all its facets, 3. Supporting the delivery of legal services at an affordable cost for the poor, elderly and otherwise disadvantaged, 4. Fostering professionalism and civility in the practice of law.

  • The Cincinnati Bar Foundation makes grants to law related programs that improve the administration of justice, support delivery of legal services to the disadvantaged, provide education about the law and improve the practice of law. Established in 1961, the Cincinnati Bar Foundation has provided more than 60 years of service to the community. Seed money and grants are awarded on a semi-annual basis for these areas: 1. Education and Training on the law for the community and young people, 2. Improving the administration of justice, 3. Supporting the delivery of legal services to the disadvantaged and children, 4. Providing education and training for attorneys to improve the practice of law.

    Expenses $216,890 · Grants $168,667

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.

  • Anthony L Osterlund

    Immediate Past President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related

  • Bernice L Walker

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Danielle L Lorenz

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Derek M Freitas

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elisher J Williams

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jacqueline Aguilar

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeffrey M Hendricks

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jesse L Jenike-Godshalk

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Louise M Roselle

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Reginald Staples Jr

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sarah Topy

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stephen A Simon

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Adam Centner

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Terance Coates

    CBA Liaison

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 10 related

  • Amy Ferguson

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dominick Gerace

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Megan Gramke

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jonathan Kelly

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related

  • Jabari Shaw

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Barry Visconte

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $496,716
    Expenses
    $299,108
    Contributions
    $112,419
    Grants paid
    $168,667
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $297,566
    Expenses
    $286,978
    Contributions
    $129,324
    Grants paid
    $162,012
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $392,718
    Expenses
    $285,774
    Contributions
    $126,048
    Grants paid
    $159,662

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
    $568,062
    Expenses
    $251,587
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,761,362

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $476,924
    Expenses
    $257,347
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,730,435

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $365,471
    Expenses
    $282,074
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,035,710

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $289,328
    Expenses
    $302,433
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,973,761

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $406,494
    Expenses
    $239,179
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,877,626

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $305,579
    Expenses
    $276,745
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,606,692

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $363,131
    Expenses
    $225,717
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,377,968

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $434,777
    Expenses
    $247,444
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,346,540

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $297,452
    Expenses
    $253,765
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,225,078

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $246,779
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,077,501

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

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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.