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CINCINNATI BAR ASSOCIATION

EIN 31-0535300 CINCINNATI, OH

Revenue 2024
$2,267,550
Expenses 2024
$1,935,914

As filed

Subsection
06
Classification
1000
Street
225 E 6TH ST

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

To promote professional excellence, foster justice, serve our members and educate the public.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To promote professional excellence, foster justice, serve our members & educate the public.

  • Continuing Legal Education (CLE) programs, meetings and committees - Rule X of the Supreme Court of Ohio mandates that attorneys admitted in Ohio attend 24 hours of approved CLE courses on a biennial basis. To enable attorneys to meet this requirement the Cincinnati Bar Association offers seminars throughout the year on substantive law as well as on other aspects of legal practice. 79 live CLE Seminars were presented, with 2448 registrants. 21 of these seminars were offered in partnership with the Ohio Metropolitan Bar Association Consortium. 617 on-demand CLEs were also completed during the fiscal year. In addition, the CBA hosts over 100 Committee meetings annually, including virtual meetings. These meetings enable members to further their professional development, connect within specialization groups and advise the CBA on needs of the profession. There are more than 3,000 participants in the committees (many members participate in more than one committee).

  • Membership - The CBA offers Greater Cincinnati attorneys many opportunities to network with their colleagues including 45 practice area or professional committees, leadership and community service programs and special events. The CBA offers a host of legal resources and membership includes two publications, the Legal Directory and CBA Report. Providing essential tools in facilitating communications among CBA members, users rely heavily on the Annual Legal Directory as a central source of contact information for local CBA members and non-member attorneys. The directory also provides comprehensive listings of law-related organizations, courts and governments, corporate legal departments, local real estate and financial institutions. The CBA Report, published six times a year, keeps the CBA members appraised of both key legal issues affecting the Greater Cincinnati area and areas of national interest that affect Cincinnati lawyers' professionalism. The magazine also provides a synopsis of the CBA's many activities including seminars as well as those statewide and national activities relevant to members' professional interests.

  • Lawyers Referral Service LRS - The LRS provides the public with referrals to lawyers based upon their legal need and geographic location. The LRS provides education to the public by providing programs with community partners. The LRS handles about 12,000 referrals on an annual basis.

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.

  • Alan Abes

    President Elect

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Lori Anthony

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • J Corey Asay

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Aine M Baldwin

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Marianna Bettman

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chelsea J Chalk

    YLS Chair-Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Terance Coates

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 1 related

  • Eric Cook

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gabriel Davis

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Megan Frient

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chris Kahn

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Elida Kamine

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jonathan Kelly

    YLS Chair Elect - Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related

  • Jacob D Mahle

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Anthony Osterlund

    CBF Liaison

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related

  • Adrienne Roach

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Nicole Sanders

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Adreanne Stuckey

    Trustee - Started 2/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ebunoluwa Taiwo

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sanna-Rae Taylor

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Hon Janaya Trotter Bratton

    Immediate Past President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Melissa Watt

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Faith Whitaker

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • John Williams

    ABA Delegate

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Wende C Cross

    Trustee-exit 12/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $2,267,550
    Expenses
    $1,935,914
    Contributions
    $62,545
    Grants paid
    $1,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,272,215
    Expenses
    $2,012,017
    Contributions
    $252,154
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,324,735
    Expenses
    $2,025,827
    Contributions
    $44,981
    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
    $2,396,496
    Expenses
    $1,838,522
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,437,653

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,843,492
    Expenses
    $1,705,186
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,511,240

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,335,891
    Expenses
    $2,247,511
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,477,166

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,584,179
    Expenses
    $2,710,036
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,534,066

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,632,834
    Expenses
    $2,583,576
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,441,697

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,719,625
    Expenses
    $2,757,495
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,440,149

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,019,335
    Expenses
    $2,849,321
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,450,704

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,117,476
    Expenses
    $3,022,213
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,506,777

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,176,879
    Expenses
    $3,099,063
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,634,805

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,126,161
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,542,618

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related partnerships on its 2024 return

  • Ohio Notary Services Inc

    Related · Notary Testing and Stamps · OH · 19.9% owned · share of income $127,979 · share of assets $101,330

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