California · Public charity
Legal Aid at Work
Legal Aid at Work partners with people to help them understand and assert their workplace rights. We also advocate for employment laws and systems that empower low-paid workers and marginalized communities.
- $187k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $105k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $26M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Legal Aid at Work funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 8 | $105k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $125k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $178k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $177k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $90k | 75% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $74k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Workers' Rights | $247,696 | 4 | 17% |
| The Watsonville Law Center | $80,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Warehouse Worker Resource Center | $79,491 | 2 | 3% |
| Chinese Progressive Association | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Refugee & Immigrant Transitions | $45,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Bay Area Resource for Newcomers | $45,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Project Sentinel Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way of Stanislaus County | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Centro Laboral de Graton | $30,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Legal Aid Society of San Bernardino Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Workers' Rights | $247,696 | 4 | 17% |
| The Watsonville Law Center | $80,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Warehouse Worker Resource Center | $79,491 | 2 | 3% |
| Chinese Progressive Association | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Refugee & Immigrant Transitions | $45,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Bay Area Resource for Newcomers | $45,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Project Sentinel Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way of Stanislaus County | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Centro Laboral de Graton | $30,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Legal Aid Society of San Bernardino Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Merced County Arts Council Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Small Business Majority Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Partners | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jakara Movement | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Family Caregiver Alliance | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Casa Familiar Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Legal Aid at Work supplied at peak.
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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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Endowment · Impactassetsinc · Asian Law Caucus · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Tides Center · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · California Community Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation
How this is measured
About Legal Aid at Work
- How much does Legal Aid at Work give?
- Legal Aid at Work reported 8 itemized grants totaling $105,000, out of $187,077 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Legal Aid at Work fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Employment (39%), Crime & Legal (25%), Housing & Shelter (22%).
- Who are Legal Aid at Work's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Center for Workers' Rights ($248k), The Watsonville Law Center ($80k), Warehouse Worker Resource Center ($79k).
- Does Legal Aid at Work fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Legal Aid at Work?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, The California Endowment.
- Where is Legal Aid at Work based?
- Legal Aid at Work is based in CA.
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