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Legal Aid at Work

Legal Aid at Work partners with people to help them understand and assert their workplace rights.

$187k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
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.

Employment$289kCrime & Legal$184kHousing & Shelter$163kHealth$30kYouth Development$30kHuman Services$30kCommunity Improvement$23k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $105,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $187,077 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $82,077 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.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Burma Refugee Families & Newc$15,000
Watsonville Law Center$15,000
Chinese Progressive Associati$15,000
Refugee & Immigrant Transitio$15,000
Warehouse Worker Resource Cen$12,500
Korean Immigrant Workers Adv$12,500
United Way of Stanislaus Cont$10,000
Project Sentinel$10,000
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, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Burma Refugee Families & Newc: $15k → 10%CASA FAMILIAR: $6k → 11%Watsonville Law Center: $30k → 13%Jakara Movement: $10k → 19%Burma Refugee Families & Newc: $15k → 10%Watsonville Law Center: $25k → 13%Burma Refugee Families & Newc: $15k → 10%Watsonville Law Center: $15k → 13%Watsonville Law Center: $10k → 13%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$682k · 10 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$682k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS
    4× · 2017–2022 · $248k · revenue +38%
  • THE WATSONVILLE LAW CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +107%
  • WW
    Warehouse Worker Resource Center
    2× · 2021–2024 · $79k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • MC
    MERCED COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +30%
  • SB
    SMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +35%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +32%
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
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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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
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
4
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
5
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
6
Legal Link

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

Crime & Legal
7
California Alliance of Caregivers

California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…

Health
8
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
9
Collective Legal Services Eviction Defense Center

Legal Aid

Crime & Legal
10
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights

To advance the human & civil rights of immigrants & refugees in los angeles; promote harmonious multi-ethnic human relations.

Civil Rights
11
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
12
Center for Community Advocacy

Provide Educational Programs, Health Services and Legal Services to Farm Workers at housing sites and throughout the Salinas Valley and promote improved living conditions.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chinese Progressive Association; the most unlike its peers is Merced County Arts Council Inc. 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

17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS: $247,696 · EmploymentCENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTSWarehouse Worker Resource Center: $79,491 · EmploymentWarehouse Worker Resource CenterTHE WATSONVILLE LAW CENTER: $80,000 · Human ServicesTHE WATSONVILLE LAW C…BAY AREA RESOURCE FOR NEWCOMERS: $45,000 · Human ServicesBAY AREA RESOURCE FOR…JAKARA MOVEMENT: $10,000 · Human ServicesJAKARA MOVEMENTCASA FAMILIAR INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesRefugee & Immigrant Transitions: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentRefugee & Im…PROJECT SENTINEL INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT SENT…CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $45,000 · HealthFAMILY CAREGIVER ALLIANCE: $7,500 · HealthUnited Way of Stanislaus County: $40,000 · PhilanthropyKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $12,500 · Community ImprovementSMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCentro Laboral de Graton: $30,000 · EducationLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN BERNARDINO INC: $30,000 · OtherMERCED COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $10,000 · Other
Employment$327,187Human Services$141,000Youth Development$85,000Health$52,500Philanthropy$40,000Community Improvement$32,500Education$30,000Other$40,000

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 budgetCENTER FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS: $247,696 over 4y, 17% of budgetTHE WATSONVILLE LAW CENTER: $80,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetWarehouse Worker Resource Center: $79,491 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Transitions: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBAY AREA RESOURCE FOR NEWCOMERS: $45,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetPROJECT SENTINEL INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of Stanislaus County: $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCentro Laboral de Graton: $30,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN BERNARDINO INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMERCED COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAKARA MOVEMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY CAREGIVER ALLIANCE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA FAMILIAR INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The James Irvine Foun…The California Endowm…ImpactassetsincAsian Law CaucusSierra Health Foundat…Tides CenterEast Bay Community Fo…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Rockefeller Philanthr…California Community …Local Initiatives Sup…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA17.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Legal Aid at Work funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Legal Aid at Work. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    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 17 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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