California · Public charity
Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County
We use the law to make the social safety net work for everyone in San Mateo County. We represent clients, empower people to advocate for themselves, and fix broken systems through policy change.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $124,539
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $260,710
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 14
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $1.2M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $1.1M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $1.2M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $2.0M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $1.0M | 21% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $845k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immigration Institute of the Bay Area | $1,292,249 | 6 | 4% |
| Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc | $970,126 | 6 | 4% |
| Mission Asset Fund | $950,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco | $884,821 | 4 | 0% |
| University of San Francisco | $621,687 | 6 | 0% |
| Pangea Legal Services | $613,493 | 6 | 8% |
| Faith In Action Bay Area | $444,255 | 6 | 5% |
| Immigrant Legal Resource Center | $386,558 | 6 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties | $369,272 | 2 | 3% |
| Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto | $192,759 | 5 | 4% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immigration Institute of the Bay Area | $1,292,249 | 6 | 4% |
| Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc | $970,126 | 6 | 4% |
| Mission Asset Fund | $950,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco | $884,821 | 4 | 0% |
| University of San Francisco | $621,687 | 6 | 0% |
| Pangea Legal Services | $613,493 | 6 | 8% |
| Faith In Action Bay Area | $444,255 | 6 | 5% |
| Immigrant Legal Resource Center | $386,558 | 6 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties | $369,272 | 2 | 3% |
| Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto | $192,759 | 5 | 4% |
| Coastside Hope | $174,280 | 6 | 2% |
| Nihonmachi Legal Outreach Dba Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach | $73,750 | 1 | 2% |
| Jobtrain Inc | $66,750 | 4 | 0% |
| City of Redwood City | $57,562 | 2 | n/a |
| Puente de la Costa Sur | $40,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Samaritan House | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bay Area Legal Aid | $39,000 | 2 | 0% |
| EMC Research | $13,132 | 1 | n/a |
| El Concilio of San Mateo County | $11,728 | 1 | 1% |
| San Francisco Tenants Union | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($80k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County 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: The San Francisco Foundation · Sunlight Giving · The Grove Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Give Forward Foundation · Immigrant Legal Resource Center · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
How this is measured
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About Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County
- How much does Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County give?
- Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County reported 10 itemized grants totaling $1,157,333, out of $1,279,237 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (63%), Community Improvement (19%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Immigration Institute of the Bay Area ($1.3M), Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc ($970k), Mission Asset Fund ($950k).
- Does Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Sunlight Giving, The Grove Foundation.
- Where is Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County based?
- Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County is based in CA.
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