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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 FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$613k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+9 grants · $3.8M
$267,367
Median grant
3
States reached
$114M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $187k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $533k → 14%CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER - CARECEN - OF CALIFORNIA: $542k → 14%IMMIGRATION CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $588k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
La Raza Centro Legal - San Francisco

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.

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2
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc

To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in east palo alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.

Crime & Legal
3
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of 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.

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4
Inner City Law Center

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.

Crime & Legal
5
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice

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…

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6
California Center for Movement Legal Services

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…

Crime & Legal
7
Southern California Immigration Project

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.

International
8
Social Justice Collaborative

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…

Crime & Legal
9
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
10
Immigration Institute of the Bay Area

The immigration institute of the bay area helps immigrants, refugees, and their families join and contribute to the community.

Arts & Culture
11
Centro De Ayuda Legal Para Imigrantes of Mountain View

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…

Crime & Legal
12
Jubilee Immigration Advocates

Our mission is to reflect Gods intent for humanity, to live as a reconciled and and restored community. We stand in solidarity with immigrants by providing high quality, affordable immigration legal services and advocating for just…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Bay Community Law Center; 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.
03the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMMIGRATION CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $588,110 · Human ServicesIMMIGRATION CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDRENCentral American Resource Center - CARECEN - of California: $542,454 · Human ServicesCentral American Resource Center - CARECE…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $533,213 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $186,558 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE…KIND INC: $348,422 · Crime & LegalKIND INCEAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER: $278,643 · Crime & LegalEAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CE…Immigrant Defenders Law Center: $232,594 · Crime & LegalImmigrant Defenders Law C…CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: $169,453 · Crime & LegalCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZAPUBLIC COUNSEL: $113,189 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC COUNSELBET TZEDEK: $267,367 · OtherBET TZEDEKCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CALIFORNIA: $204,887 · OtherCHILDREN'S LA…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND: $132,392 · OtherCATHOLIC CHAR…+1 more: $12,460 · OtherCOMMUNITY JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC: $613,487 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY JUS…EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT: $294,087 · Community ImprovementEAST BAY S…OPENING DOORS INC: $172,207 · Community ImprovementOPENING DO…CANAL ALLIANCE: $306,608 · Religion
Human Services$1,850,335Crime & Legal$1,142,301Other$617,106Civil Rights$613,487Community Improvement$466,294Religion$306,608

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Jus…Catholic Legal Immigr…The California Wellne…The California Endowm…California Access to …Immigrant Legal Resou…United Way of the Bay…The David and Lucile …Conrad N Hilton Found…The William & Flora H…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Acacia Center for Justice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Acacia Center for Justice. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Acacia Center for Justice?

    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.

    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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