M Margaret Mckeown Federal Bar Assocation
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What it says it does
To advance jurisprudence and improve the administration of justice promote the highest standards of competence, performance and ethics among the attorneys who appear before federal judges in this district and to improve bench-bar relations.
- Income
- $396,306
- Spending
- $430,847
- Employees
- 0
Source: Form 990 for the year ending September 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending September 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This return does not answer enough of the governance questions to score.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending September 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (9)
- $161,432 spent. The Federal Civil Rights Clinic helps individuals without a lawyer navigate the federal court system by providing couseling on legal processes and procedures. Volunteer attorneys provide limited scope legal assistance to help individuals understand their rights, next steps, and connect with additional community resources.
- $120,288 spent. Winter Conference. The FBA puts on an all day education seminar for members of the bar for continuing legal education. After the seminars, members and the court gather for dinner. At the dinner, awards are given recognzing members or judges. A speaker speaks about issues relevant to to the practice of law.
- $62,400 spent. Diversity Externship Program. The program provides summer judicial externships to law students who bring diverse perspectives to the legal profession as a result of their adaptability, cultural fluency, resilience, and life experiences. The students are placed in judicial chambers and are provided with a structured educational program. The program includes matching students with an attorney mentor, meetings with Assistant Federal Public Defenders, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Probation officers, federal agents and judges, weekly meetings with a judicial coordinator, and oppurtunities to observe civil and criminal proceedings.
- Program Service Expenses 20,249, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Summer and Fall program receptions. FBA members and ninth circuit lawyers gather at judicial conferences to celebrate and promote the FBA.
- Program Service Expenses 4,861, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Litigation Academy. Young lawyers are invited to learn how to litigate cases with the aid of judges and more experienced lawyers.
- Program Service Expenses 2,594, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Youth Law Day. Students from around the Western District of Washington come to the court and learn about many aspects of the law including practicing law, becoming judges, or becoming law enforcement agents.
- Program Service Expenses 1,021, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 DREAM Program. The organization provides support and services to participants in the Western District of Washington DREAM Court program, which is designed to assist qualified participants charged with substance abuse to undergo a process of rehabilitation.
- Program Service Expenses 7,849, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Continuing Legal Education. The FBA conducts legal education programs for lawyers and judges, and sponsors programs and events to advance the administration of justice by lawyers and judges in Federal Court in the Western District of Washington.
- Program Service Expenses 10,434, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Education Grant. The organization made a grant to the Franklin High School PTSA to support a high school moot court program.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending September 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(6) business league.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Caution.
The IRS master file records contributions to this 501(c)(6) business league as not deductible.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending September 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since September 1979.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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