California · Public charity
California Changelawyers
To build a better justice system for all californians.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $692k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 66
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations California Changelawyers funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $467k 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 | 23 | $682k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $1.6M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $349k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $602k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $527k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $340k | 57% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $464k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transgender Law Center | $225,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Disability Rights California | $211,615 | 4 | 0% |
| For the People | $210,000 | 5 | 3% |
| California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice | $200,000 | 3 | 55% |
| Uncommon Law | $168,574 | 3 | 6% |
| The Justice and Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco | $160,000 | 2 | 1% |
| California Rural Legal Assistance Inc | $157,485 | 4 | 0% |
| American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education | $130,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Inland Counties Legal Services | $119,262 | 4 | 0% |
| Equal Justice Works | $106,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 90 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
California Changelawyers supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 83 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 Access to Justice Commission · Equal Justice Works · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · Munger Tolles & Olson Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · Weingart Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Skadden Foundation
How this is measured
About California Changelawyers
- How much does California Changelawyers give?
- California Changelawyers reported 24 itemized grants totaling $691,500, out of $1,092,230 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 66 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does California Changelawyers fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (79%), Civil Rights (12%), Education (5%).
- Who are California Changelawyers's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Transgender Law Center ($225k), Disability Rights California ($212k), For the People ($210k).
- Does California Changelawyers fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as California Changelawyers?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Access to Justice Commission, Equal Justice Works, The Morrison & Foerster Foundation.
- Where is California Changelawyers based?
- California Changelawyers is based in CA.
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