· Public charity
Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County
As a public interest law firm, NLSLA changes lives and transforms communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $284k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $669k
- $250k+4 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles | $2,311,989 |
| Inner City Law Center | $969,185 |
| Public Counsel Law Center | $838,834 |
| Mental Health Advocacy Services Inc | $475,645 |
| Bet Tzedek Legal Services | $180,890 |
| Legal Aid Society of Orange County -- Community Legal Services | $179,060 |
| Southern California Education Fund | $150,000 |
| Maternal and Child Health Access | $100,000 |
| Alliance for Community Empowerment | $59,000 |
| Pacoima Beautiful | $42,608 |
| Western Center on Law and Poverty | $30,536 |
| El Nido Family Centers | $25,750 |
| Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights | $25,000 |
| National Health Law Program Inc | $24,901 |
| Northeast Valley Health Corporation | $23,332 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $481k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
22 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LALegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +269%
- ICInner City Law Center8× · 2017–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +248%
PUBLIC COUNSEL8× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +85%
Funded once
- CACentral American Resource Center - CARECEN - of Californiagraduatedone grant, 2021 · $16k · revenue +100%
- ACACCELERATE CHANGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +80%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central American Resource Center - Carecen - of California and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds Inner City Law Center ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC COUNSEL ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL ↗
- Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
- Who funds Maternal and Child Health Access ↗
- Who funds Western Center on Law & Poverty Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST VALLEY HEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds ASIAN RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER ACTION LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds VISION Y COMPROMISO ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLINIC ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN BERNARDINO INC ↗
- Who funds PACOIMA BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds EL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Central American Resource Center - CARECEN - of California ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The California Endowment · Weingart Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Wellness Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Community Partners · The Annenberg Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.