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Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles seeks to achieve equal justice for people living in poverty across Greater Los Angeles. We change lives through direct representation, systems change, and community education.

$37M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,408,226
Largest grant, FY2025
$8,782,626
Organizations funded a year
12 to 18
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$79M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementHousing & Shelter
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$30M0%
FY202413$22M8%
FY202312$11M0%
FY202218$8.5M33%
FY202114$5.6Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$58M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southern California Housing Rights Center$20,320,451547%
Inner City Law Center$14,555,175520%
Basta Inc$10,683,3075n/a
Eviction Defense Network$9,174,4535n/a
Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County$8,624,71059%
Bet Tzedek$4,280,38657%
Community Legal Aid Socal$3,743,77559%
Public Counsel$2,499,54553%
Saje$1,073,47957%
Mental Health Advocacy Services Inc$930,858410%
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All grantees of Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southern California Housing Rights Center$20,320,451547%
Inner City Law Center$14,555,175520%
Basta Inc$10,683,3075n/a
Eviction Defense Network$9,174,4535n/a
Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County$8,624,71059%
Bet Tzedek$4,280,38657%
Community Legal Aid Socal$3,743,77559%
Public Counsel$2,499,54553%
Saje$1,073,47957%
Mental Health Advocacy Services Inc$930,858410%
California Center for Movement Legal Services$904,241248%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California$297,30151%
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network$97,50031%
The People Concern$64,74620%
Center for the Pacific-Asian Family Inc$30,00020%
Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc$24,90010%
Womenshelter of Long Beach$15,00010%
Thai Community Development Center$13,75011%
Chrysalis Center$13,40610%
Ltsc Community Development Corporation$12,50010%
Korean American Family Services Inc$7,82910%

Where it is load-bearing

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouthern California Housing Rights Center: $20,320,451 over 5y, 47% of budgetInner City Law Center: $14,555,175 over 5y, 20% of budgetNeighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County: $8,624,710 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetBet Tzedek: $4,280,386 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetCommunity Legal Aid Socal: $3,743,775 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetPublic Counsel: $2,499,545 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetSaje: $1,073,479 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetMental Health Advocacy Services Inc: $930,858 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetCalifornia Center for Movement Legal Services: $904,241 over 2y, 48% of budgetAsian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California: $297,301 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network: $97,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetThe People Concern: $64,746 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for the Pacific-Asian Family Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc: $24,900 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWomenshelter of Long Beach: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThai Community Development Center: $13,750 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetChrysalis Center: $13,406 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLtsc Community Development Corporation: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKorean American Family Services Inc: $7,829 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…Weingart FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…Liberty Hill Foundati…The California Wellne…The California Endowm…The Ralph M Parsons F…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Sempra FoundationMunger Tolles & Olson…Durfee Foundation
California Community FoundationCA28.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The California Endowment · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sempra Foundation · Munger Tolles & Olson Foundation · Durfee 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.

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About Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles

How much does Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles give?
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles reported 13 grants totaling $37,011,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (100%).
Who are Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Southern California Housing Rights Center ($20M), Inner City Law Center ($15M), Basta Inc ($11M).
Does Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, Weingart Foundation.
Where is Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles based?
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles is based in CA.

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 22 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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