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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 FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$38kCrime & Legal$21kHealth$14kCivil Rights$3kCommunity Improvement$2kArts & Culture$2k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $10,160 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,410 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,250 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$5,160
Median grant
1
States reached
$40k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCIL - AUTHENTIC ARTS AND MEDIA: $2k → 10%GLENN BURKE WELLNESS CLINIC: $2k → 10%EL LA PARA TRANS LATINAS: $2k → 10%SOMOS FAMILIA VALLE: $2k → 14%CALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $2k → 10%ST JAMES INFIRMIRY: $2k → 10%PACIFIC CENTER FOR HUMAN GROWTH: $8k → 10%TGI JUSTICE PROGRAM: $7k → 10%OASIS LEGAL SERVICES: $5k → 10%THE LGBT ASYLUM PROJECT - CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT PROTECTION: $2k → 10%IMPACT FUND: $2k → 10%ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $2k → 10%TRANS LIFELINE: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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
Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area

The Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (AABA) has been the voice of the San Francisco Bay Areas Asian Pacific American (APA) legal community since 1976. AABA fosters professional development, community, and service. We…

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3
Sacramento Lgbt Community Center

The Center works to create a region where all LGBTQ+ people thrive; we support health and wellness,advocate for equity and justice, and work to uplift our diverse and culturally rich LGBTQ+ community.

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4
Lgbt Bar Assn of Los Angeles Lgbtq Lawyers Assn of Los Angeles
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National Trans Bar Association
Education
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Lavender Legal Center

Public interest law firm

Crime & Legal
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Aids Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area

Our mission is to advance and protect the rights, dignity, and health of people living with hiv/aids in the bay area. continued on schedule owe accomplish this through direct legal representation by one of our staff attorneys, by careful…

Health
8
Legal Link

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

Crime & Legal
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Transgender Law Center

Transgender Law Center TLC changes law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.

Civil Rights
10
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
11
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
12
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oakland Lgbtq Community Center Inc 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.

04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BALIF FOUNDATION — $38,193 · PhilanthropyBALIF FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $1,500 · PhilanthropyPacific Center for Human Growth — $7,570 · OtherPacific Center for Human GrowthTGI JUSTICE PROGRAM — $7,145 · OtherTGI JUSTICE PROGRAMIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Impact Fund — $1,500 · OtherThe Impact FundACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE — $1,500 · OtherACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICECALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCIL — $1,500 · OtherCALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCILOasis Legal Services — $5,160 · Crime & LegalOasis Legal …Center for Immigrant Protection — $2,332 · Crime & LegalCenter for I…CALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC — $1,500 · Crime & LegalCALIFORNIA R…Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline — $1,500 · HealthST JAMES INFIRMARY — $1,500 · HealthSOMOS FAMILIA VALLE — $1,500 · Civil RightsOakland LGBTQ Community Center Inc — $1,500 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$39,693Other$24,215Crime & 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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetTranslifeline DBA Trans Lifeline — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOMOS FAMILIA VALLE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Impact Fund — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOakland LGBTQ Community Center Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JAMES INFIRMARY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 FoundationThe California Endowm…East Bay Community Fo…The San Francisco Fou…Equality California I…The James Irvine Foun…ImpactassetsincTides FoundationGrass Roots Gay Right…California Access to …Amalgamated Charitabl…Silicon Valley Commun…
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

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 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
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no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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