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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.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
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Median grant, FY2024
$267,367
Largest grant, FY2024
$613,487
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$114M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Acacia Center for Justice supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Justice Alliance Inc: $613,487 over 2y, 18% of budgetImmigration Center for Women & Children: $588,110 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetCentral American Resource Center - CARECEN - of California: $542,454 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc: $533,213 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKind Inc: $348,422 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCanal Alliance: $306,608 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetEast Bay Sanctuary Covenant: $294,087 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetEast Bay Community Law Center: $278,643 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetBet Tzedek: $267,367 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetImmigrant Defenders Law Center: $232,594 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetChildren's Law Center of California: $204,887 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCatholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco: $186,558 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOpening Doors Inc: $172,207 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCentro Legal de la Raza: $169,453 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Oakland: $132,392 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPublic Counsel: $113,189 over 2y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vera Institute of Justice IncNY24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Acacia Center for Justice through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Acacia Center for Justice

How much does Acacia Center for Justice give?
Acacia Center for Justice reported 17 grants totaling $4,996,131 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Acacia Center for Justice fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (56%), Human Services (26%), Civil Rights (15%).
Who are Acacia Center for Justice's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Community Justice Alliance Inc ($613k), Immigration Center for Women & Children ($588k), Central American Resource Center - CARECEN - of California ($542k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Acacia Center for Justice?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vera Institute of Justice Inc, Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc, The California Wellness Foundation.
Where is Acacia Center for Justice based?
Acacia Center for Justice is based in DC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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