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Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom at a glance

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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
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $10,160, the rows itemized in this filing. The $13,410 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,250 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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
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.

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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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5
National Trans Bar Association
Education
6
Lavender Legal Center

Public interest law firm

Crime & Legal
7
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
9
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oakland Lgbtq Community Center Inc; 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 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. 12 of the 15 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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

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 Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
    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.

    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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