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Chicago Bar Foundation

EIN 36-6109584Human and Civil Rights Illinois Mid-sized

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Our community. Our profession. Our foundation.

The Chicago Bar Foundation (CBF) mobilizes our legal community around a cause that is a distinctive responsibility of our profession: ensuring that everyone in the Chicago metropolitan area has equal access to justice, particularly the low-income and disadvantaged people who are in most critical need of the protections of the legal system. Through grants, advocacy, pro bono and partnerships, the CBF takes a system-wide approach to improving access to justice and focuses on those objectives that are best achieved by the legal community working together.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

88.90Overall score
out of 100

84.31Financial score
out of 100

100.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$4,297,420

Total expenses · USD$4,461,315

Program expenses

$3,685,046.19 recorded amount

82.6%

Fundraising expenses

$285,524.16 recorded amount

6.4%

Administrative expenses

$486,283.34 recorded amount

10.9%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.06 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Robert Glaves
Recorded compensation: $133,538.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 2.99%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Chicago Bar Foundation
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	100.0
`category` Category	Human and Civil Rights
`description` Mission & description	The Chicago Bar Foundation (CBF) mobilizes our legal community around a cause that is a distinctive responsibility of our profession: ensuring that everyone in the Chicago metropolitan area has equal access to justice, particularly the low-income and disadvantaged people who are in most critical need of the protections of the legal system. Through grants, advocacy, pro bono and partnerships, the CBF takes a system-wide approach to improving access to justice and focuses on those objectives that are best achieved by the legal community working together.
`ein` EIN	36-6109584
`tot_exp` Total expenses	4461315.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.109
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.06
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.064
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.826
`fscore` Financial score	84.31
`leader` Recorded leader	Robert Glaves
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	133538.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.029900000000000003
`motto` Tagline	Our community. Our profession. Our foundation.
`name` Charity name	Chicago Bar Foundation
`tot_rev` Total revenue	4297420.0
`score` Overall score	88.9
`state` State code	IL
`subcategory` Subcategory	Advocacy and Education
`size` Source size label	mid
`program_exp` Program expenses	3685046.19
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	285524.16000000003
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	486283.335

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 36-6109584
Source category: Human and Civil Rights
Source subcategory: Advocacy and Education
Recorded location: Illinois (IL)
Expense-based size: Mid-sized
$3.5M–$13.5M in total expenses · source label: mid

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.