2022 Annual Report
2022 ANNUAL REPORT
A Note from the President and Director
February 28, 2023
Dear Friend of the South Carolina Bar Foundation:
The South Carolina Bar Foundation Board and Staff are pleased to share with you our Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2022. We are honored to fund organizations around the state that improve the lives of the poor, the homeless, and those with nowhere else to turn by meeting their legal needs and beyond. The annual report details the South Carolina Bar Foundation’s funding and illustrates how our resources are distributed.
We are fortunate to have dedicated donors and consistent IOLTA income, but the needs of human trafficking victims, the homeless, veterans, domestic violence victims, and children far outweigh what we can provide.
We hope to reach 2,023 donors by December 31, 2023. We are already at 109. Please consider donating to assist your neighbors in need. You can donate online at https://scbf.networkforgood.com/.
We appreciate your generosity and continued support of the South Carolina Bar Foundation!
Lisa Cotten
President
Megan Seiner
Executive Director
Your Donations at Work
We support Administration of Justice organizations that use innovative and cost-effective means to enhance legal services to the poor, help Civil Legal Aid organizations that provide direct civil legal aid to those who are underserved by legal services, and work with Law Related Education organizations that teach students to become responsible citizens under the law doing the following:
Grants Across South Carolina
6
UPSTATE
7
MIDLANDS
8
LOWCOUNTRY
14 STATEWIDE SERVICE PROVIDERS
“The SC Victim Assistance Network Legal Team is a small group that does big work across our state. The need for our services increases each year. The funds we receive from the SC Bar Foundation allow us the ability to meet the challenges of our ever-growing client base in this ever-changing landscape. We leverage our funds to maximize our resources and staff. From orders of protection to immigration filings, our successes in court and beyond depend upon the funds we receive from the SC Bar Foundation. We are so grateful for the continuing support.”
LAUREN BARNWELL | Senior Staff Attorney, SC Victim Assistance Network
Fiscal Year 2022 Expenses
$2,016,983
GRANT DOLLARS
35
GRANTEES
$415,194
OPERATING
COSTS
Fiscal Year 2022 Assets
$2,124,125 TOTAL INCOME
$7,916,478 INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO
IN 2022
643
DONORS
(ONLY 4.85%
OF ACTIVE
BAR MEMBERS)
DONATED AN AVERAGE OF
$343
Fiscal Year 22 Grantees
CIVIL LEGAL AID
Charleston Pro Bono Legal Services
Hopeful Horizons
Lowcountry Legal Volunteers
One 80 Place
Project R.E.S.T, formerly Safe Home
SC Appleseed Legal Justice Center
Sistercare
South Carolina Legal Services
South Carolina Victim Assistance Network, Inc.
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
Catholic Charities Office of Immigration Services
Charleston Legal Access
Medical Legal Partnership
Midlands Mediation Center
National Judicial College
Richland County CASA
Root and Rebound
SC Access to Justice Commission
SC Bar Ask-A-Lawyer
SC Center For Fathers & Families
Serve and Connect
Transitions
Turn 90, formerly Turning Leaf Project
Upstate Mediation Center
LAW RELATED EDUCATION
SC Bar Law Related Education
SC YMCA Youth In Government
Spartanburg County Criminal Youth Institute
USC Pro Bono Program
81¢ per dollar
is distributed
statewide
Bank of America Settlement Grants
Special grant program established as a result of a settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and Bank of America. These funds must be used by nonprofit organizations in SC to provide legal services relating to foreclosure prevention and/or community redevelopment benefiting SC residents.
Bank of America Settlement Grantees
Antioch Educational Center
Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation
Charleston Legal Access
Charleston Pro Bono Legal Services
Charleston Trident Urban League
Greenville County Human Relations Commission
Lowcountry Legal Volunteers
One-Eighty Place Homeless Justice Project
SC Bar Pro Bono Program
SCCADVASA
South Carolina Environmental Law Project
SC Legal Services
University of South Carolina School of Law Veterans Legal Clinic
SC Restorative Justice Initiative (USC)
“We have been extremely grateful for the SC Bar Foundation grant. It has allowed us to assist individuals pay for the court costs or administrative fees that had the potential to entangle them in the criminal legal system indefinitely. Costs that seem straightforward or simple, for example the $100 reinstatement fee for the Department of Motor Vehicles, are less straightforward when they are buried under complex and powerful systems. Getting one's license back is more than just getting on the road - it allows someone to expand the geographic scope of their job and housing opportunities. Being given the choice between pretrial intervention and a time-served plea is not really a choice if you cannot afford the program fees. The SC Bar Foundation grant has allowed us to remove finances from decisions like this; it has allowed us to chip away at the hurdle of economic inequity that stands between a person and their opportunities.”
KIELEY SUTTON | Rainy Day Fund
None of this would be possible without our donors. Thank you to those who support us financially! Click the link below to support these good works:
FISCAL YEAR 2022 South Carolina Bar Foundation Annual Report