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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 FY2025still arriving
101
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$12MCivil Rights$1.9MHuman Services$1.1MHousing & Shelter$349kEducation$284kHealth$243kCommunity Improvement$242kArts & Culture$183kOther$0
02FY2025 · 101 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 101 grants below total $6,093,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,448,321 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $354,571 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k61 grants · $1.8M
  • $50k–250k39 grants · $3.9M
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$42,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CA Collab for Immigrant Just$350,000
CLSEPA$186,250
Immigration Inst of Bay Area$183,250
Mixteco Indigena Com Org Prj$172,000
Immigrant Legal Defense QBO$169,000
Asian Americans Advancing Jus$159,500
Latin Advoc Network-Latinan$158,500
Legal Services for Children$157,500
Immigration Project Inc$152,500
Inland Counties Legal Srv Inc$151,000
Pship for the Adv of New Amcn$148,750
Loyola Marymount University$128,000
Thai Community Dvlpmnt Ctr$125,000
California Indian Legal Srvcs$118,500
National Center for Youth Law$117,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Mixteco Indigena Com Org Prj: $172k → 10%Centro Del Inmigrante Inc: $46k → 11%SIREN: $63k → 8%SECURE FAMILIES COLLAB: $120k → 9%SECURE FAMILIES COLLAB: $40k → 9%Secure Families Collaborative: $27k → 9%AL OTRO LADO: $94k → 11%The Watsonville Law Center: $19k → 13%Al Otro Lado: $75k → 11%TODEC Legal Center Perris: $35k → 11%AL OTRO LADO: $31k → 11%Garment Worker Center: $19k → 14%Jubilee Immigration Advocates: $31k → 10%Pship for the Adv of New Amcn: $149k → 11%Pship for Adv of New Amer: $60k → 11%PTNRSHP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT: $30k → 11%Immigrant Legal Resource Ctr: $88k → 10%AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK: $94k → 10%Thai Community Dvlpmnt Ctr: $125k → 14%AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK: $31k → 10%Thai Community Dev Ctr: $117k → 14%THE LGBT ASYLUM PROJECT: $56k → 14%THE LGBT ASYLUM PROJECT: $19k → 14%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 72 repeat orgs$5.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

72 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 52 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
2

Total granted

$14M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
0%

Still filing today

97%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationHousing & ShelterHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CALIFORNIA COLLABORATIVE FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $700k · revenue +27%
  • NL
    Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County
    2× · 2022–2023 · $400k · revenue +27%
  • PL
    PUBLIC LAW CENTER
    3× · 2022–2025 · $344k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • VO
    VARIOUS OTHER GRANTS
    one grant, 2024 · $2.6M
  • NL
    NIHONMACHI LEGAL OUTREACH DBA ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER LEGAL OUTREACH
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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.

1
California Center for Movement Legal Services

The California Center for Movement Legal Services (Movement Legal) provides legal services in the pursuit of improving the lives of California's traditionally underserved residents, carrying out legal work that fosters community led policy…

Crime & Legal
2
Law Foundation of Silicon Valley

The Law Foundation uses the law as a tool for change. The Law Foundation addresses problems linked to social injustices like poverty, discrimination, child abuse, and neglect. Every day, our attorneys, social workers, and advocates craft…

Crime & Legal
3
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
4
Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights
5
Santa Barbara County Immigrant Legal Defense Center

To provide equal access to justice and due process to indigent immigrants facing removal proceedings.

Crime & Legal
6
Community Legal Aid Socal

To provide civil legal services to low-income individuals and to promote equal access to the justice system through advocacy, legal counseling, innovative self-help services, in depth legal representation, community education, and economic…

Crime & Legal
7
California Lawyers Foundation

The California Lawyers Foundation shares a common mission with the California Lawyers Association of promoting excellence, diversity, and inclusion in the legal profession and fairness in the administration of justice and the rule of law.…

Education
8
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
9
Immigrant Legal Services of the Central Coast Inc

Immigrant legal services of the central coast (ilscc) provides immigration-related legal services and information to the immigrant community of the central coast region of california, primarily santa cruz, san benito, and monterey…

Crime & Legal
10
Legal Aid Association of California

The Legal Aid Association of California, the statewide membership of legal services nonprofits, serves its members through advocacy and other support in efforts to provide legal assistance to low-income Californians and ensure access to…

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11
Civil Liberties Defense Center

CIVIL LIBERTIES DEFENSE CENTER (CLDC) educates the general public about their rights and privileges under the US Constitution and provides free legal support to climate and social justice activists.

Civil Rights
12
Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law Foundation

The center for human rights and constitutional law (chrcl) is a nonprofit organization that advances and protects the rights of immigrants and communities impacted by systems of oppression through training and support, advocacy, and impact…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Bay Community Law Center; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

122 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 122 of the 126 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
121/122
Grantees still filing
74/122
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: $526,875 · Crime & LegalCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZACommunity Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc: $353,125 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC LAW CENTER: $344,000 · Crime & LegalInner City Law Center: $336,700 · Crime & LegalCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING: $312,000 · Crime & LegalCENTRAL CALIFORNIA LEGAL SERVICES INC: $305,000 · Crime & LegalLegal Access Alameda: $297,000 · Crime & LegalOPEN DOOR LEGAL: $291,875 · Crime & LegalELDER LAW & ADVOCACY: $275,000 · Crime & LegalImmigration Project Inc: $270,500 · Crime & Legal+46 more: $4,795,150 · Crime & Legal+46 moreVARIOUS OTHER GRANTS: $2,617,500 · OtherVARIOUS OTHER GRANTSCALIFORNIA COLLABORATIVE FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $700,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA COLLABORATIVE FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTI…Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County: $400,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $322,500 · OtherLOS ANGELES CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: $290,000 · OtherLawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area: $280,000 · OtherOneJustice: $275,000 · OtherNational Center for Youth Law: $267,500 · Other+28 more: $2,476,250 · Other+28 moreTHAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $316,875 · Human ServicesTHAI COMM…PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $238,750 · Human ServicesPARTNERSH…AL OTRO LADO: $200,000 · Human ServicesAL OTRO L…SECURE FAMILIES COLLABORATIVE: $186,500 · Human ServicesSECURE FA…MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $172,000 · Human ServicesMIXTECO I…AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK: $125,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN A…IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $87,500 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT…SERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN): $62,500 · Human Services+5 more: $148,500 · Human Services+5 moreCenter For Gender And Refugee Studies- California Inc: $212,250 · Civil RightsTHE TRANSLATIN COALITION: $210,000 · Civil RightsDisability Rights Education and Defense Fund Inc: $166,000 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $100,000 · Civil RightsLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $100,000 · Civil RightsJUSTICE AT LAST INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsLEARNING RIGHTS LAW CENTER: $69,750 · Civil Rights+1 more: $12,500 · Civil RightsMISSION ACTION INC: $215,500 · Housing & ShelterAlameda County Homeless Action Center: $98,500 · Housing & ShelterVETERANS LEGAL INSTITUTE: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterEviction Defense Collaborative Inc: $34,500 · Housing & ShelterAIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA: $152,500 · HealthCalifornia Advocates for Nursing Home Reform: $138,400 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC: $75,000 · HealthLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $128,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $63,000 · EducationUC LAW SF FOUNDATION: $37,000 · EducationINLAND COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $31,250 · EducationTHE GUILD LAW SCHOOL PEOPLES COLLEGE OF LAW: $26,000 · EducationEducation and Leadership Foundation: $25,000 · Education
Crime & Legal$8,107,225Other$7,628,750Human Services$1,537,625Civil Rights$970,500Housing & Shelter$433,500Health$365,900Education$310,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA COLLABORATIVE FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $700,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: $526,875 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNeighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County: $400,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc: $353,125 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetPUBLIC LAW CENTER: $344,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetInner City Law Center: $336,700 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $322,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $316,875 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING: $312,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA LEGAL SERVICES INC: $305,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLegal Access Alameda: $297,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetOPEN DOOR LEGAL: $291,875 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: $290,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetLawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area: $280,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetOneJustice: $275,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetELDER LAW & ADVOCACY: $275,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetImmigration Project Inc: $270,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetNational Center for Youth Law: $267,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetROOT & REBOUND: $250,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetLegal Aid at Work: $246,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $238,750 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCalifornia Indian Legal Services Inc: $232,400 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetInland Counties Legal Services: $228,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPublic Interest Law Project: $220,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetMISSION ACTION INC: $215,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetCounsel for Justice: $214,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCenter For Gender And Refugee Studies- California Inc: $212,250 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetCalifornia Rural Legal Assistance Foundation: $210,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetOasis Legal Services: $210,250 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIN COALITION: $210,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAL OTRO LADO: $200,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLegal Assistance to the Elderly: $198,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSECURE FAMILIES COLLABORATIVE: $186,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetIMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA: $183,250 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetEAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT: $180,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetKIND INC: $180,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES: $178,500 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetHARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW: $175,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN BERNARDINO INC: $175,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $172,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE: $169,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDisability Rights Education and Defense Fund Inc: $166,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetAIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA: $152,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCENTER FOR ACCESS TO QDROS: $150,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPUBLIC ADVOCATES INC: $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetContra Costa Senior Legal Services: $147,000 over 4y, 6.5% 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.

California Changelawy…Equal Justice WorksThe California Endowm…Immigrant Legal Resou…The San Francisco Fou…The Morrison & Foerst…Catholic Legal Immigr…The California Wellne…Weingart FoundationEast Bay Community Fo…The Wilson Sonsini Go…Kaiser Foundation Hos…
California ChangelawyersCA88.6× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 California Access to Justice Commission funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from California Access to Justice Commission. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    74report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 126 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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