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East Bay Community Law Center

EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER's mission is to promote justice and build a more healthy, secure, productive and hopeful community by providing: 1) legal services and policy advocacy that responds to the needs of low-income communities, (continued on schedule o)and 2) law training that prepares future attorneys to be skilled and principled…

$265k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$95k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$524kCommunity Improvement$45kYouth Development$30kEnvironment$15k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $206,700, the rows itemized in this filing. The $264,780 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $58,080 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–50k1 grant · $46k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $161k
$65,930
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDEN COUNCIL FOR HOPE & OPPORTUNITY$94,810
MANDELA PARTNERS$65,930
CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA$45,960
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Young Womens Freedom Center: $15k → 10%CURYJ: $15k → 10%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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$457k · 6 repeat orgs$157k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$457k
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+170%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • EC
    EDEN COUNCIL FOR HOPE AND OPPORTUNITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $172k · revenue +5%
  • BA
    BAY AREA LEGAL AID
    2× · 2020–2023 · $74k · revenue +46%
  • POWERSWITCH ACTION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • CJ
    Causa Justa Just Causegraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $52k · revenue +45%
  • RI
    RYSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +207%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue ×11
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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
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
3
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
4
Legal Link

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

Crime & Legal
5
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

—
6
Jubilee Immigration Advocates

Our mission is to reflect Gods intent for humanity, to live as a reconciled and and restored community. We stand in solidarity with immigrants by providing high quality, affordable immigration legal services and advocating for just…

Human Services
7
Pangea Legal Services

Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.

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
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.

—
10
Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco Inc

The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco is dedicated to combating the displacement crisis gripping our city by building the power of working-class tenants of color to take on the real estate industry and win housing justice for all.…

Education
11
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.

—
12
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy

Ebase advances economic, racial and social justice by building a just economy in the east bay on good jobs and healthy communities. we address the root causes of economic injustice by developing strategic alliances amount community, faith…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Women's Freedom Center; the most unlike its peers is Bay Area Legal Aid. 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

14 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EDEN COUNCIL FOR HOPE AND OPPORTUNITY: $171,610 · Housing & ShelterEDEN COUNCIL FOR HOPE AND OPPORTUNITYCausa Justa Just Cause: $51,585 · Housing & ShelterCausa Justa Just CauseMandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc: $73,100 · Community ImprovementMandela Partners Prev…POWERSWITCH ACTION: $30,000 · Community ImprovementPOWERSWITCH ACTIONMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $15,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CEN…CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: $80,126 · Crime & LegalCENTRO LEGAL DE LA R…LEGAL AID OF SONOMA COUNTY: $28,505 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF SONOMA …BAY AREA LEGAL AID: $73,940 · OtherBAY AREA LEGA…RYSE INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ: $15,000 · Human ServicesA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $15,000 · HealthSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Environment
Housing & Shelter$223,195Community Improvement$118,100Crime & Legal$108,631Other$73,940Youth Development$30,000Human Services$30,000Health$15,000Environment$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEDEN COUNCIL FOR HOPE AND OPPORTUNITY: $171,610 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: $80,126 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBAY AREA LEGAL AID: $73,940 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc: $73,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCausa Justa Just Cause: $51,585 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPOWERSWITCH ACTION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID OF SONOMA COUNTY: $28,505 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRYSE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

The California Endowm…East Bay Community Fo…The San Francisco Fou…The California Wellne…Tipping Point Communi…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Amalgamated Charitabl…Rockefeller Philanthr…Northern California G…Californians For Just…The Zellerbach Family…Stupski Foundation
The California EndowmentCA19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Endowment · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Northern California Grantmakers · Californians For Justice Education Fund · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Stupski Foundation

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 East Bay Community Law Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from East Bay Community Law Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 14 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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