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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 legal organizations to combat all forms of discrimination; promotes the appointment of lgbt attorneys to the judiciary, public agencies…
$13k
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0167% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Philanthropy$38kCrime & Legal$9kHealth$3kCivil Rights$2kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$26k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
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2021
transgendertrainingsummerstipendsseedingdedicated increasingincreasing number
2022
peer
2023
queertranssexualhealthracialgenderenvironmental
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$5,160
Median grant
1
States reached
$45k
Total assets
Largest grants
- OASIS LEGAL SERVICES$5,160
- THE BALIF FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 4% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
Civil Rights
2
Imperial Court of Los Ageles Hollywood
Community services
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3
National Trans Bar Association
Education
4
Lavender Legal Center
Public interest law firm
Crime & Legal
5
Bay Area Legal Aid
Bay area legal aid (baylegal) provides free civil legal services to low-income bay area residents.
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6
Lgbt Bar Assn of Los Angeles
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7
Inreach
InReach fka AsylumConnect is a trans-led tech nonprofit dedicated to building the world's first open source verified LGBTQ+ resource platform. InReach's free platform connects LGBTQ+ people facing persecution or discrimination with a range…
Education
8
California Human Trafficking
Crime & Legal
9
Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc
Coordinate pro bono legal assistance for victims of anti-Asian violence
Civil Rights
10
California Lgbtq Foundation
Through events it hosts and contributions it makes to like-minded charities the organization educates promotes and engages the public on issues of importance to the LGBTQ community in order to foster civic engagement and develop community…
Education
11
Queer Works
Our mission is to ameliorate disparities faced by transgender, gender non-binary and intersex people as well as help reduce similar disparities among our lesbian, gay and bisexual communities.
Health
12
Lgbtq Center Lake County
The organization is dedicated to providing space, diverse programing, and cultural activities in an affirming, compassionate, and safe environment in the greater Lake County area.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oasis Legal Services and the most unlike its peers is St James Infirmary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$38,193Other$25,715Crime & Legal$8,992Health$3,000Civil Rights$1,500Community Improvement$1,500
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 THE BALIF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CENTER FOR HUMAN GROWTH ↗
- Who funds OASIS LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE LGBT ASYLUM PROJECT - CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds SOMOS FAMILIA VALLE ↗
- Who funds TRANS LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GLENN BURKE WELLNESS CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES INFIRMIRY ↗
- Who funds ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds IMPACT FUND ↗
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.
Horizons FoundationCA20.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Horizons Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The California Endowment · The San Francisco Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Equality California Institute · The James Irvine Foundation · Tides Foundation · California Access to Justice Commission · Borealis Philanthropy · The Yelp Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation
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 organisation BAY AREA LAWYERS FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE BALIF FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.0× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 352441580 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on THE BALIF FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 53% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom?
Find your warmest path to Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines