California · Public charity
California Access to Justice Commission
The California Access to Justice Commission advances access to justice for all Californians by expanding resources, removing barriers, and developing innovations so everyone can effectively and efficiently resolve their civil legal issues.
- $6.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 101
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $6.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $42,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 70
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations California Access to Justice Commission funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 99 | $6.1M | 53% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $6.3M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 70 | $5.1M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice | $700,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Centro Legal de la Raza | $526,875 | 4 | 1% |
| Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County | $400,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc | $353,125 | 3 | 4% |
| Public Law Center | $344,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Inner City Law Center | $336,700 | 4 | 1% |
| Alliance for Children's Rights | $322,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Thai Community Development Center | $316,875 | 4 | 8% |
| Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking | $312,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Central California Legal Services Inc | $305,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 125 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
California Access to Justice Commission supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 100 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: California Changelawyers · Equal Justice Works · The California Endowment · Immigrant Legal Resource Center · The San Francisco Foundation · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc · The California Wellness Foundation · Weingart Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
How this is measured
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About California Access to Justice Commission
- How much does California Access to Justice Commission give?
- California Access to Justice Commission reported 101 itemized grants totaling $6,093,750, out of $6,448,321 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 70 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does California Access to Justice Commission fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (64%), Civil Rights (10%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are California Access to Justice Commission's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice ($700k), Centro Legal de la Raza ($527k), Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County ($400k).
- Does California Access to Justice Commission fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as California Access to Justice Commission?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Changelawyers, Equal Justice Works, The California Endowment.
- Where is California Access to Justice Commission based?
- California Access to Justice Commission is based in CA.
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