California · Public charity
Bay Area Legal Aid
Baylegal provides free civil legal services to low-income residents of san francisco bay area to address legal barriers to housing, healthcare, personal safety, financial independence and stability so to escape poverty.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $183,094
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,763,127
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $24M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Bay Area Legal Aid funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $3.9M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $3.4M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $2.8M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $1.9M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $1.6M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $1.6M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $918k | 8% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Assistance to the Elderly | $8,168,178 | 8 | 49% |
| The Justice & Diversity Center - Hap | $6,746,829 | 8 | n/a |
| Centro Legal de la Raza | $482,961 | 1 | 3% |
| Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County | $314,485 | 8 | 1% |
| Law Foundation of Silicon Valley | $231,505 | 2 | 1% |
| Western Center on Law & Poverty Inc | $169,214 | 8 | 1% |
| National Health Law Program Inc | $167,195 | 8 | 0% |
| Contra Costa Cnty Flood Control & Water | $161,641 | 2 | n/a |
| Housing and Economic Rights Advocates | $112,500 | 1 | 12% |
| CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse | $106,524 | 7 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Bay Area Legal Aid supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sunlight Giving · California Access to Justice Commission · United Way of the Bay Area · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Munger Tolles & Olson Foundation · Pinpoint Foundation · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · Equal Justice Works · The Sobrato Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Bay Area Legal Aid
- How much does Bay Area Legal Aid give?
- Bay Area Legal Aid reported 8 grants totaling $3,899,427 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Bay Area Legal Aid fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (57%), Housing & Shelter (30%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Bay Area Legal Aid's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Legal Assistance to the Elderly ($8.2M), The Justice & Diversity Center - Hap ($6.7M), Centro Legal de la Raza ($483k).
- Does Bay Area Legal Aid fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bay Area Legal Aid?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Sunlight Giving.
- Where is Bay Area Legal Aid based?
- Bay Area Legal Aid is based in CA.
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