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Acacia Center for Justice
Acacia coordinates large-scale immigrant legal assistance and defense networks, providing exceptional legal services and expanding the infrastructure necessary to ensure access to justice, fairness, and freedom for all immigrants.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+9 grants · $3.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC | $613,487 |
| IMMIGRATION CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN | $588,110 |
| CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER - CARECEN - OF CALIFORNIA | $542,454 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC | $533,213 |
| KIND INC | $348,422 |
| CANAL ALLIANCE | $306,608 |
| EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT | $294,087 |
| EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER | $278,643 |
| BET TZEDEK | $267,367 |
| IMMIGRANT DEFENDERS LAW CENTER | $232,594 |
| CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CALIFORNIA | $204,887 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO | $186,558 |
| OPENING DOORS INC | $172,207 |
| CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA | $169,453 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE EAST BAY | $132,392 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in East Palo Alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.
La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco provides high quality, highly trusted, free legal services to low-income or immigrant clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.
As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.
In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.
The California Center for Movement Legal Services (Movement Legal) provides legal services in the pursuit of improving the lives of California's traditionally underserved residents, carrying out legal work that fosters community led policy…
Ccij utilizes coordination, advocacy, and legal services to fight for the liberationof immigrants in detention in california. we seek to empower immigrants in detentionand their communities through technical assistance, education, and…
Southern California Immigration Project is a public interest nonprofit organization dedicated to providing pro bono legal services to survivors of human and civil rights violations.
Social justice collaborative is californias leading provider of compassionate full scope deportation defense legal services to low income non-citizens in northern and central california. we boldly provide post-convition relief to…
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.
The immigration institute of the bay area helps immigrants, refugees, and their families join and contribute to the community.
The organization's primary mission is to provide immigration legal services and community education about immigration law. this involves legal representation to the low-income immigrant community, including help to those brought to the us…
CFJ promotes access to justice for underserved communities seeking to assert their legal rights. Our pro bono-based projects bridge the gap for underserved communities seeking safety, stability, and justice. CFJ engages volunteer attorneys…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Bay Community Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Community Justice Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Central American Resource Center - CARECEN - of California ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
- Who funds Immigrant Defenders Law Center ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds OPENING DOORS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC COUNSEL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Vera Institute of Justice Inc · Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc · The California Wellness Foundation · The California Endowment · California Access to Justice Commission · Immigrant Legal Resource Center · United Way of the Bay Area · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Acacia Center for Justice funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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