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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$7.3MInternational$2.1MHuman Services$1.4MCivil Rights$1.3MEnvironment$753kHealth$31kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $1,238,905, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,396,480 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $157,575 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.
$1,238,905
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
California Immigration Project$1,238,905
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%California Human Development Corp: $20k → 9%Mixteco Indigena Community Organization Project: $183k → 10%Empower Yolo Inc: $20k → 16%Mixteco Indigena Community Organization Project: $126k → 10%TODEC Legal Center Perris: $126k → 11%El Concilio California: $29k → 12%Mixteco Indigena Community Organization Project: $126k → 10%TODEC Legal Center Perris: $126k → 11%TODEC Legal Center Perris: $126k → 11%La Familia Counseling Center: $45k → 12%La Familia Counseling Center Inc: $23k → 12%La Familia Counseling Center Inc: $4k → 12%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 18 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
20

Total granted

$9.0M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+7%

Still filing today

94%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +38%
  • COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS CALIFORNIA
    2× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +144%
  • PL
    Pangea Legal Services
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • CF
    COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
    one grant, 2024 · $843k · revenue -21%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY
    one grant, 2024 · $593k · revenue +7%
  • AC
    Afghan-American Community Organization
    one grant, 2024 · $307k · 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 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. Our vision is for all farmworkers and their families…

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2
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc

To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in East Palo Alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.

Crime & Legal
3
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
4
Centro Legal De La Raza

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.

Crime & Legal
5
La Raza Centro Legal - San Francisco

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.

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6
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of 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.

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7
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
8
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
9
Southern California Immigration Project

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.

International
10
Counsel for Justice

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…

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11
Immigrant Defenders Law Center

Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) is a next-generation social justice law firm that defends our immigrant communities against injustices in the immigration system.

Crime & Legal
12
Social Justice Collaborative

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…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Concilio California; 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.
04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
28/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Pangea Legal Services: $1,263,187 · Crime & LegalPangea Legal Servi…CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT: $376,500 · Crime & LegalCENTER ON RACE POV…CALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $150,000 · Crime & LegalCALIFORNIA RURAL L…PUBLIC SERVICE LAW CORPORATION DBA RIVERSIDE LEGAL AID: $100,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $85,000 · Crime & LegalLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: $85,000 · Crime & LegalSAN LUIS OBISPO LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Crime & LegalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,987,789 · InternationalInternational Resc…+3 more: $74,910 · InternationalCALIFORNIA IMMIGRATION PROJECT: $1,238,905 · OtherCALIFORNIA IMMIGRATION PROJECTCRLA Inc: $564,913 · OtherCRLA IncOPENING DOORS INC: $667,979 · OtherOPENING DOORS INCJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY: $592,725 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVIC…Afghan-American Community Organization: $307,007 · OtherAfghan-American Community Organiza…HIJAS DEL CAMPO: $140,832 · Other+10 more: $367,127 · Other+10 moreCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS CALIFORNIA: $1,807,801 · Arts & CultureCOUNCIL ON AMER…COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $843,450 · Civil RightsCOALITION F…LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $376,500 · Civil RightsLEADERSHIP …+1 more: $37,710 · Civil RightsMIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $433,500 · Human ServicesTodec Legal Center Perris: $376,500 · Human ServicesLa Familia Counseling Center Inc: $70,860 · Human Services+3 more: $68,500 · Human ServicesCommunity Water Center: $376,500 · EnvironmentCentral California Environmental Justice Network: $376,500 · Environment
Crime & Legal$2,134,687International$2,062,699Other$3,879,488Arts & Culture$1,807,801Civil Rights$1,257,660Human Services$949,360Environment$753,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,987,789 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS CALIFORNIA: $1,807,801 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetPangea Legal Services: $1,263,187 over 2y, 19% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $843,450 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetOPENING DOORS INC: $667,979 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY: $592,725 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $433,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT: $376,500 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetCommunity Water Center: $376,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTodec Legal Center Perris: $376,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCentral California Environmental Justice Network: $376,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $376,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHIJAS DEL CAMPO: $140,832 over 3y, 12% of budgetCentro La Familia Advocacy Services INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPUBLIC SERVICE LAW CORPORATION DBA RIVERSIDE LEGAL AID: $100,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $85,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: $85,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLa Familia Counseling Center Inc: $70,860 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of the Pacific: $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorCal Resist: $37,710 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAFRIPEACE & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $32,100 over 2y, 73% of budgetSTANISLAUS MULTI CULTURAL COMMUNITY HEALTH COALITION WEST MODESTO KING: $31,202 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetEL CONCILIO CALIFORNIA: $28,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $24,360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $22,810 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmpower Yolo Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCentro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR HISPANIC ADVANCEMENT: $15,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHands of Hope Resources for Homeless Families: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWASHINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $13,225 over 1y, 20% of budgetSACRAMENTO AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER: $12,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Latino Coalition for Community Leadership: $1,040 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Sierra Health Foundat…The California Endowm…California Access to …The California Wellne…Public Health Institu…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Latino Community Foun…Sierra Health Foundat…The James Irvine Foun…Sacramento Region Com…Amalgamated Charitabl…Immigrant Legal Resou…
Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program ManagementCA37.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Rural Legal Assistance Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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How do I get to California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation?

Find your warmest path to California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 39 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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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home