· Public charity
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
The mission of CRLAF is to achieve social justice and equity in partnership with farmworkers and the underserved in rural communities through community, legislative and legal advocacy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $1,238,905 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,396,480 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $157,575 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| California Immigration Project | $1,238,905 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $949k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC2× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +38%
COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS CALIFORNIA2× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +144%- PLPangea Legal Services2× · 2023–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +106%
Funded once
- CFCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTSone grant, 2024 · $843k · revenue -21%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAYone grant, 2024 · $593k · revenue +7%
- ACAfghan-American Community Organizationone grant, 2024 · $307k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of CRLAF is to achieve social justice and equity in partnership with farmworkers and the underserved in rural communities through community, legislative and legal advocacy. Our vision is for all farmworkers and their families…
To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in East Palo Alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.
Centro Legal De La Raza is a comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income immigrant communities throguh culturally competent bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy.
La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco provides high quality, highly trusted, free legal services to low-income or immigrant clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.
As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.
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…
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…
Southern California Immigration Project is a public interest nonprofit organization dedicated to providing pro bono legal services to survivors of human and civil rights violations.
CFJ promotes access to justice for underserved communities seeking to assert their legal rights. Our pro bono-based projects bridge the gap for underserved communities seeking safety, stability, and justice. CFJ engages volunteer attorneys…
Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) is a next-generation social justice law firm that defends our immigrant communities against injustices in the immigration system.
Social justice collaborative is californias leading provider of compassionate full scope deportation defense legal services to low income non-citizens in northern and central california. we boldly provide post-convition relief to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Concilio California and the most unlike its peers is Afripeace & Development Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Pangea Legal Services ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds OPENING DOORS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY ↗
- Who funds MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Community Water Center ↗
- Who funds Todec Legal Center Perris ↗
- Who funds CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds Central California Environmental Justice Network ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY ↗
- Who funds Afghan-American Community Organization ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HIJAS DEL CAMPO ↗
- Who funds Centro La Familia Advocacy Services INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SERVICE LAW CORPORATION DBA RIVERSIDE LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SAN LUIS OBISPO LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds La Familia Counseling Center Inc ↗
- Who funds University of the Pacific ↗
- Who funds NorCal Resist ↗
- Who funds AFRIPEACE & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STANISLAUS MULTI CULTURAL COMMUNITY HEALTH COALITION WEST MODESTO KING ↗
- Who funds EL CONCILIO CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno ↗
- Who funds Empower Yolo Inc ↗
- Who funds Hands of Hope Resources for Homeless Families ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR HISPANIC ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds The Latino Coalition for Community Leadership ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · The California Endowment · California Access to Justice Commission · The California Wellness Foundation · Public Health Institute · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Latino Community Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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