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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.

$37M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8.8M
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$58M
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
  • $250k+12 grants · $37M
$1,408,226
Median grant
1
States reached
$79M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Housing Rights Center$8,782,626
Liberty Hill Foundation$7,075,104
Inner City Law Center$5,765,800
Eviction Defense Network$3,763,381
Basta Universal$3,342,235
Neighborhood Legal Services$2,970,134
Community Legal Aid SoCal$1,408,226
Bet Tzedek$1,082,484
California Center for Movement Legal Services$805,018
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy$750,174
Public Counsel$647,061
Mental Health Advocacy Services$320,853
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California$61,134
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 (FY21–22, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Chrysalis: $25k → 11%The People Concern: $35k → 14%The People Concern: $30k → 14%Korean American Family Services: $8k → 14%WomenShelter of Long Beach: $15k → 14%Thai Community Development Center: $14k → 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$77M · 15 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
6

Total granted

$77M
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+17%

Still filing today

87%
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%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • IC
    Inner City Law Center
    5× · 2021–2025 · $15M · revenue +27%
  • BI
    BASTA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $11M · revenue +19%
  • NL
    Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County
    5× · 2021–2025 · $8.6M · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • CS
    Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -19%
  • WO
    WOMENSHELTER OF LONG BEACH
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -33%
  • TC
    THAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +109%
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
Counsel for Justice

CFJ promotes access to justice for underserved communities seeking to assert their legal rights. Our pro bono-based projects bridge the gap for underserved communities seeking safety, stability, and justice. CFJ engages volunteer attorneys…

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2
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
3
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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4
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.

Crime & Legal
5
Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice

The survivor justice center secures justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowers them to create their own future.

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6
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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7
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc

To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in east palo alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.

Crime & Legal
8
Alameda County Homeless Action Center

HAC assists homeless and mentally ill clients in the long and difficult process of becoming eligible for SSI and MediCal benefits. HAC provides assistance with other public benefits that clients need in the interim to survive until their…

Housing & Shelter
9
Legal Link

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

Crime & Legal
10
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
11
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
12
Community Legal Services

Community Legal Services was established to ensure the best interests of the public are represented by participating and intervening before the California Public Utilities Commission, and all other municipal, state, or federal regulatory…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network; the most unlike its peers is Mental Health Advocacy Services 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

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Inner City Law Center: $14,555,175 · Crime & LegalInner City Law CenterEVICTION DEFENSE NETWORK: $9,174,453 · Crime & LegalEVICTION DEFENSE NETWORKCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL: $3,743,775 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCALPUBLIC COUNSEL: $2,499,545 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC COUNSEL+2 more: $1,201,542 · Crime & LegalBASTA INC: $10,683,307 · OtherBASTA INCNeighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County: $8,624,710 · OtherNeighborhood Legal Services …BET TZEDEK: $4,280,386 · OtherBET TZEDEK+1 more: $13,406 · OtherSouthern California Housing Rights Center: $20,320,451 · Civil RightsSouthern California Hous…LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $17,258,486 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY HILL FOUNDAT…SAJE: $1,073,479 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC: $930,858 · HealthTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $64,746 · Human ServicesChrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc: $24,900 · Human ServicesWOMENSHELTER OF LONG BEACH: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $13,750 · Human ServicesKOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $7,829 · Human ServicesCANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $97,500 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR THE PACIFIC-ASIAN FAMILY INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $12,500 · Housing & Shelter
Crime & Legal$31,174,490Other$23,601,809Civil Rights$20,320,451Philanthropy$17,258,486Health$2,004,337Human Services$126,225Community Improvement$97,500Housing & Shelter$42,500

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 budgetSouthern California Housing Rights Center: $20,320,451 over 5y, 47% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $17,258,486 over 5y, 16% 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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 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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