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Inland Counties Legal Services

Inland Counties Legal Services (ICLS) mission is to pursue justice and equality for low-income individuals through counsel, advice, advocacy, and community education, treating all with dignity and respect.

$280k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$167k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$2.3MHousing & Shelter$534kPublic Benefit$163kHuman Services$20kPhilanthropy$12k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $268k
$101,576
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Step Up on Second$166,754
CV Association of Governments$101,576
CSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUND$11,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $388k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Step Up on Second: $167k → 14%DESERT SANCTUARY: $29k → 14%Step Up on Second: $75k → 14%DESERT SANCTUARY: $25k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND: $35k → 14%Desert Sanctuary: $20k → 14%DESERT SANCTUARY: $2k → 14%LIBRERIA DEL PUEBLO INC: $20k → 14%SAN BERNARDINO COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC: $15k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 9 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$3.0M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+124%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LA
    LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN BERNARDINO INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $658k · revenue +393% · 27% of their budget
  • PS
    PUBLIC SERVICE LAW CORPORATION DBA RIVERSIDE LEGAL AID
    2× · 2017–2018 · $355k · revenue +170% · 27% of their budget
  • SU
    STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $277k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue ×12 · 67% of their budget
  • LD
    Libreria Del Pueblo Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +124%
  • SB
    SAN BERNARDINO COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +134%
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
Inland Counties Legal Services

Inland Counties Legal Services (ICLS) mission is to pursue justice and equality for low-income individuals through counsel, advice, advocacy, and community education, treating all with dignity and respect. Over the last six decades, ICLS…

Crime & Legal
2
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
3
Inner City Law Center

In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.

Crime & Legal
4
Community Legal Aid Socal

Community legal aid socal provides compassionate, holistic, and impactful legal services to residents of los angeles and orange counties who need help with housing, family law, healthcare access and other areas of law.

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
Legal Services of Northern California

To empower the poor to identify and defeat the causes and effects of poverty within their communities by providing high quality civil legal services to the poor, seniors, and persons with disabilities in over twenty three counties in n.…

Crime & Legal
7
Inland Empire Legal Aid

The Mission of the Inland Empire Legal Aid is to provide select legal services to low-income residents of Spokane County and outlying counties who may otherwise be denied adequate representation or access to the civil justice system and to…

Crime & Legal
8
San Luis Obispo Legal Assistance Foundation

San luis obispo legal assistance foundation's mission is to provide legal services and resources to people in need.

Crime & Legal
9
Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County

To provide high-quality civil legal services to vulnerable santa barbara county residents.

Crime & Legal
10
Apoyo Legal Migrante Asociado

Serve immigrants, especially immigrant victims of crime.

Crime & Legal
11
Prison Law Office

The mission of the prison law office is to reduce incarceration and ensure humane and constitutional treatment of people who remain in prisons, jails and on parole.

Crime & Legal
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Aid Society of San Bernardino Inc; the most unlike its peers is Loyola Marymount University. 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

13 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. 13 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INLAND EMPIRE LATINO LAWYERS ASSOCIATION INC: $836,059 · Crime & LegalINLAND EMPIRE LATINO LAWYERS ASSOCIATION INCPUBLIC SERVICE LAW CORPORATION DBA RIVERSIDE LEGAL AID: $354,624 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC SERVICE LAW CORPORATION DBA RIVERSIDE …+1 more: $22,876 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN BERNARDINO INC: $658,058 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN BERNARDINO INCCoachella Valley Assoc of Gov: $242,813 · OtherCoachella Valley Assoc of GovCOUNTY OF RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH AGENCY: $223,355 · OtherCOUNTY OF RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH AGENC…+1 more: $6,705 · OtherSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $276,650 · Human ServicesSTEP UP ON SEC…The Desert Sanctuary Inc: $76,225 · Human ServicesThe Desert San…Libreria Del Pueblo Inc: $20,100 · Human ServicesSAN BERNARDINO COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC: $14,832 · Human ServicesFAIR HOUSING COUNCIL OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY: $177,562 · Housing & ShelterRIVERSIDE AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $112,263 · HealthCSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $11,500 · PhilanthropyLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $10,800 · Education
Crime & Legal$1,213,559Other$1,130,931Human Services$387,807Housing & Shelter$177,562Health$112,263Philanthropy$11,500Education$10,800

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 budgetINLAND EMPIRE LATINO LAWYERS ASSOCIATION INC: $836,059 over 6y, 57% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN BERNARDINO INC: $658,058 over 3y, 27% of budgetPUBLIC SERVICE LAW CORPORATION DBA RIVERSIDE LEGAL AID: $354,624 over 2y, 27% of budgetSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $276,650 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFAIR HOUSING COUNCIL OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY: $177,562 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetRIVERSIDE AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $112,263 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetThe Desert Sanctuary Inc: $76,225 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $22,876 over 1y, 67% of budgetLibreria Del Pueblo Inc: $20,100 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSAN BERNARDINO COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC: $14,832 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $10,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOneJustice: $6,705 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Weingart FoundationCalifornia Community …Inland Empire Communi…Amazonsmile Foundation
Weingart FoundationCA19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Inland Counties Legal Services funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Inland Counties Legal Services. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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