Tarrant County Bar Foundation

Analysis

Tarrant County Bar Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Fort Worth, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Tarrant County Bar Foundation reported income of $210k and spending of $371k, spending 176% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $261k to $210k (-19%), an average of -5.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 116% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Tarrant County Bar Foundation sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 59th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include John R Elliott Foundation ($210k), Denton County Alternative Dispute Resolution Program Inc ($210k) and Reaching Out From Within Inc ($210k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 66% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $19k, net assets of $1.7m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.