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Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom

The group takes action on questions of law and justice that affect the lgbt community,strengthens professional and social ties among lgbt members of the legal profession, builds coalitions with other leg

$13k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
89%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$10k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$5,160
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,160
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$40k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 89% of the organizations Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
Crime & LegalHealthCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$10k50%
FY20239$26k89%
FY20221$8k100%
FY20215$24k80%
FY20201$2k0%
FY20191$9kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$38kCrime & Legal$21kHealth$14kCivil Rights$3kCommunity Improvement$2kArts & Culture$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Balif Foundation$38,193553%
Pacific Center for Human Growth$7,57011%
Oasis Legal Services$5,16010%
Center for Immigrant Protection$2,33210%
Somos Familia Valle$1,50010%
Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline$1,50010%
The Impact Fund$1,50010%
Oakland LGBTQ Community Center Inc$1,50010%
Community Initiatives$1,50010%
Access Reproductive Justice$1,50010%
California Rural Legal Assistance Inc$1,50010%
St James Infirmary$1,50010%
California Arts Council$1,5001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($12k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBalif Foundation: $38,193 over 5y, 53% of budgetPacific Center for Human Growth: $7,570 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOasis Legal Services: $5,160 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Immigrant Protection: $2,332 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSomos Familia Valle: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTranslifeline DBA Trans Lifeline: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Impact Fund: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOakland LGBTQ Community Center Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Initiatives: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAccess Reproductive Justice: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Rural Legal Assistance Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt James Infirmary: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 12.

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.

Horizons FoundationCA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Horizons Foundation · The California Endowment · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Equality California Institute · The James Irvine Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation · California Access to Justice Commission · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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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About Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom

How much does Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom give?
Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom reported 2 itemized grants totaling $10,160, out of $13,410 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (48%), Crime & Legal (27%), Health (17%).
Who are Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Balif Foundation ($38k), Pacific Center for Human Growth ($8k), Oasis Legal Services ($5k).
Does Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 89% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Horizons Foundation, The California Endowment, East Bay Community Foundation.
Where is Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom based?
Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom is based in CA.

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 15 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $11k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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