2019-01-28T14:36:08-06:00 2018-04-30 EISNERAMPER LLP 750 THIRD AVENUE NEW YORK NY 100172703 990 2017-05-01 136003018 ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND INC % THOMAS J HALTER CAO ASSO 2123826640 42 WEST 44TH STREET NEW YORK NY 100366690 THOMAS HALTER Assistant Treasurer 2123826640 2019-01-28 true CANDICE METH P01306891 2129498700 64.238.150.4 26505220190285000000 2019-01-28 P 99FDA0F67140D27C2D24982E44D7CE6EF6D9F2DF 76F63173862BD53306569026D89B1616E4AE25DE 2017 2019-02-21 02:37:17Z CITY BAR FUND Bret Parker 42 WEST 44TH STREET NEW YORK NY 10036 10377067 false X www.nycbar.org X 1946 NY THE CITY BAR FUND, THE 501(C)(3) AFFILIATE OF THE NEW YORK CITY BAR ASSOCIATION, UNDERTAKES PUBLIC SERVICE, EDUCATION, POLICY ADVOCACY AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES. 29 29 57 1962 0 13982 6075635 5142960 74209 56512 178656 1176354 0 0 6328500 6375826 34000 24000 0 0 4225001 4364382 52500 55000 405009 1143727 1390419 5455228 5833801 873272 542025 10825629 11009083 499206 619364 10326423 10389719 X THE CITY BAR FUND, THE 501(C)(3) AFFILIATE OF THE NEW YORK CITY BAR ASSOCIATION, UNDERTAKES PUBLIC SERVICE, EDUCATION, POLICY ADVOCACY AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES THROUGH THE CITY BAR JUSTICE CENTER, CYRUS R. VANCE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE, THE LAWYERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND THE OFFICE OF DIVERSITY & INCLUSION. false false 3278466 100 City Bar Justice Center ("CBJC") operates approximately a dozen legal projects to provide free legal assistance to low-income, disadvantaged New Yorkers with essential life matters. CBJC's core efforts include immigration projects, Cancer Advocacy and Elderlaw Projects, Consumer Bankruptcy Project, Foreclosure Project, Federal Pro Se Legal Assistance Project, Legal Clinic for the Homeless, LGBT Advocacy Project, Neighborhood Entrepreneur Law Project, Planning and Estates Law Project, Veterans Assistance Project, and the Legal Hotline. CBJC delivers services by recruiting and training volunteer attorneys and matching them with the vetted cases of poor and underserved New Yorkers. Each Year, CBJC leverages $16 million in pro bono services. 957063 8333 The Vance Center advances global justice by engaging lawyers across borders to support civil society and an ethically active legal profession. The Vance Center is a unique collaboration of international lawyers catalyzing public interest innovation. We bring together leading law firms and other partners worldwide to pioneer international justice initiatives and provide pro bono legal representation to social justice NGOs within the human rights and access to justice program, the environment program and the good governance program. The Vance Centers strengthening the legal profession program engages law firms, bar associations, law schools, and pro bono clearinghouses with innovative initiatives, including Women in the Profession, African Legal Fellows, and the Pro Bono Initiative for the Americas. The Vance Center leverages $6 million worth of revenue in the form of pro bono services. 236879 The NYC Bar Fund Lawyer Assistance Program provides free, confidential help to lawyers, judges, law students, bar applicants and their family members who are experiencing mental health, substance abuse, personal, career and any other problems affecting their professional and/or personal life. 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LINES (1A) AND (4)NOTE TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (NOTE A(8)) LIBRARY BOOKS AND WORKS OF ART: LIBRARY BOOKS AND WORKS OF ART THAT HAVE BEEN DONATED TO THE CITY BAR FUND HAVE BEEN RECORDED AT THE NOMINAL VALUE OF ONE DOLLAR. LIBRARY BOOKS AND WORKS OF ART THAT HAVE BEEN PURCHASED HAVE BEEN EXPENSED AS INCURRED. SCHEDULE D, PART V - LINE 4 USE OF ENDOWMENT FUNDS: FOR GENERAL OPERATIONS TO FULFILL THE MISSION OF THE CITY BAR FUND IN ACCORDANCE WITH DONORS' WISHES. SCHEDULE D, PART X - LINE 2 INCOME TAX UNCERTAINTIES: The City Bar Fund is subject to the provisions of the financial accounting standards board's ("FASB") Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") topic 740, Income Taxes, as it relates to accounting and reporting for uncertainty in income taxes, because of the City Bar Fund's general tax-exempt status, management believes that ASC Topic 740 has not had, and is not anticipated to have, a material impact on the City Bar Fund's Financial statements. South America Program Services Visit to Brazil, Colom 4537 South America 1 Program Services Consulting Fees-Colom 2500 South America Program Services Consulting Fees-Chile 10000 North America Program Services Visit to Mexico 2383 North America Program Services Conference 34345 North America Program Services Consulting Fees-Mexico 1981 Sub-Saharan Africa Program Services Visit to South Africa 2253 Sub-Saharan Africa 1 Program Services Consulting fees-Kenya 37369 Sub-Saharan Africa Program Services Consulting Fees-South 4000 Central America and the Caribbean Program Services Visit To Haiti 589 Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland) Program Services Visit to Hungary,Spain 3545 Europe (Including Iceland and Greenland) Program Services Consulting Fees-UK 1250 2 2 104752 104752 false false false false false false SCHEDULE F, PART I, LINE 3(COLUMN F): ACCRUAL METHOD SCHEDULE F, PART I, LINE 3, (1) COLUMN (E): TRIP TO COLUMBIA BY U.S. REPRESENTATIVE - FOR VANCE CENTER'S PROJECT ON THE PARTICIPATION OF AFRO-COLOMBIAN WOMEN IN THE PEACE PROCESS. TRIP TO BRAZIL BY U.S. REPRESENTATIVE - FOR ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE ORGANIZED BY INSTITUTO PRO BONO, A BRAZILIAN PARTNER OF THE VANCE CENTER. SCHEDULE F, PART I, LINE 3 (2) COLUMN (E): CONSULTING FEES PAID TO JULIANA LAMIR FOR ORGANIZING VANCE CENTER'S WORKSHOP ON THE PARTICIPATION OF AFRO-COLOMBIAN WOMEN IN THE COUNTRY'S PEACE PROCESS. SCHEDULE F, PART I, LINE 3 (3) COLUMN (E) CONSULTING FEES PAID TO FUNDACION PRO BONO CILE FOR PROVIDING VANCE CENTER IN CONNECTION WITH THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE PRO BONO NETWORK OF THE AMERICAS. SCHEDULE F, PART I, LINE 3 (4) COLUMN (E): TRIPS TO MEXICO BY U.S. REPRESENTATIVES - For Vance CentER Pro Bono conference and for a Law and Society Association Conference. X X X X X X X true EVENT MANAGEMENT GROUP CBJC GALA DINNER true 1008573 55000 953573 1008573 55000 953573 NY CBJC-GALA Dinne 1008573 911477 97096 97096 0 1008573 911477 97096 97096 97096 SCHEDULE G, PART I, LINE 2B, COLUMN (III) PAYMENTS FOR THE GALA DINNER WERE SENT TO THE ORGANIZATION AND TO THE PROFESSIONAL FUNDRAISER. SCHEDULE G, PART I, LINE 2B, COLUMN (V) Financial agreement: The fee for services under this contract is $55,000 for the April 10, 2018 Dinner Gala Event. Additional billing will be invoiced after full accounting of the event. Additional expenses will not exceed $100 without prior approval from the sub-contractors (graphic designers, printers, publicists, writers, etc.); equipment rentals; travel; mailings including postage, mailing house (for mailings over 100 pieces); multiple faxes of 5 pages or more; extensive long distance calls; overnight shipping; local messengers. Additional amount of $2,339 was paid to the PFR upon completion of the event. true BARBRI INC 9400 N CENTRAL EXWY DALLAS TX 75231 455340430 10000 1 RECRUITMENT & RETENTION FELLOWSHIPS 3 14000 SCH I - PART I LINE 1 AND PART I Line 2 Part I Line 1 Recruitment and Retention fellowships subsidize fellows who were first year students in New York law schools and were selected among other fellows by the Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Lawyers after a rigorous application process to be matched with legal employers for summer employment. They were then matched with an employer for the summer. These individuals are placed in fellowships with public sector employers who are unable to pay what fellows employed in the private sector received. The fund supplemented those wages. Part I Line 2 The New York City Bar offers Law Preview Scholarships through Barbri, Inc. to students who enter a New York/New Jersey law school. Scholarship recipients participate in a 6-day Law review law school prep course at no cost. To be eligible, applicants must be (i) a member of a historically underrepresented group in the legal profession; and (ii) enrolled at a participating NYC area law school in the fall of 2017. Scholarship recipients receive more than 45 hours of instruction from top law professors and attorneys who provide comprehensive previews of the following core 1st year classes: Civil Procedure, Constitutional law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Property, Torts and Legal Research & Writing. In additional to the Law Preview prep course,scholarship recipients receive an attorney mentor through the PALS program and become law student members of the New York City Bar Association. X X X X false false false false false false false false false BRET I PARKER VICE-PRESIDENT 0 325068 0 0 0 0 0 8100 0 0 0 333168 0 0 THOMAS J HALTER ASSISTANT TREASURER 0 184906 0 0 0 0 0 5784 0 24879 0 215569 0 0 LYNN M KELLY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - CBJC 207911 0 0 0 0 0 6365 0 14323 0 228599 0 0 0 ALEXANDER PAPACHRISTOU EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - VANCE CTR 176015 0 0 0 0 0 5493 0 28725 0 210233 0 0 0 ALICE MOREY MANAGING ATTORNEY 147094 0 0 0 0 0 4506 0 19420 0 171020 0 0 0 X 3 30934 FMV false false false FORM 990, PART III - LINE 4(D) One component of other program services is the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. The Office of Diversity and Inclusion was created in 2004 to work with NYC legal employees to foster more diverse work environments. To date, we have 157 signatories to our Statement of Diversity Principles adopted in 2003 - 135 law firms and 22 corporate legal departments. The office regularly tracks the progress of signatories on key diversity representation metrics and hosts sessions designed to provide concrete tools to build an effective diversity effort, and provides programming and guidance to students from disadvantaged backgrounds seeking to pursue a legal career. FORM 990, PART V - LINE 3(A) AND 3(B) THE CITY BAR FUND WAS SUBJECT TO UNRELATED BUSINESS INCOME TAX UNDER THE TAX CUTS AND JOBS ACT ON THE DISALLOWED TRANSIT BENEFITS AND ACCORDINGLY FILED THE FORM 990-T. FORM 990, PART VI - LINE 6 THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK COMPRISES THE MEMBERSHIP OF ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FUND, INC. FORM 990, PART VI - LINE 7(A) THE MEMBERS ELECT THE DIRECTORS. FORM 990, PART VI - LINE 11(A) The form 990 and related schedules are submitted to the members of the Audit Committee for review. Any questions or comments brought up following the review by the Audit Committee are addressed prior to submission to the BOARD OF DIRECTORS for final approval. Following approval by the BOARD OF DIRECTORS, the form and related schedules are submitted to the IRS. FORM 990, PART VI - LINE 12(C) POLICY IS CIRCULATED ANNUALLY TO NECESSARY PEOPLE WHO ARE REQUIRED TO FILL OUT THE FORMS ACKNOWLEDGING THEY HAVE READ THE POLICY AND IDENTIFYING CONFLICTS. FORM 990, PART VI - LINES 15(A) AND 15(B) THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SERVED AS THE COMPENSATION COMMITTEE. FORM 990, PART VI - LINE 19 ALL GOVERNING DOCUMENTS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE OFFICE OF THE CAO OF THE ASSOCIATION TO THE PUBLIC BY REQUEST, AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ARE ON THE CITY BAR FUND'S WEBSITE. 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