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Orange County Bar Association Charitable Fund
As the charitable giving and fundraising arm of the orange county bar association, the ocba charitable fund provides resources to organizations and programs in order to enhance the system of justice and promote equal justice for all.
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.
The 13 grants below total $205,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $215,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION | $36,000 |
| PUBLIC LAW CENTER | $34,000 |
| VETERANS LEGAL INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SO CAL | $20,000 |
| ELDER LAW & DISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER (ELDR) | $15,000 |
| COLLABORATIVE COURTS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| LAURA'S HOUSE | $9,500 |
| RADIANT FUTURES | $9,500 |
| HUMAN OPTIONS | $9,500 |
| PROJECT YOUTHOCBF | $9,000 |
| UCI SCHOOL OF LAW | $8,000 |
| UCI SCHOOL OF LAW | $8,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY JUSTICE FUND | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CRCONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $296k · revenue +14%
- PLPUBLIC LAW CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $214k · revenue +89%
- CLCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL7× · 2017–2024 · $193k · revenue +91%
Funded once
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.
Inland Counties Legal Services (ICLS) mission is to pursue justice and equality for low-income individuals through counsel, advice, advocacy, and community education, treating all with dignity and respect. Over the last six decades, ICLS…
The California Lawyers Foundation shares a common mission with the California Lawyers Association of promoting excellence, diversity, and inclusion in the legal profession and fairness in the administration of justice and the rule of law.…
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…
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.
Community Lawyers, Inc. provides underserved low- and no-income community members access to legal representation, pro-bono legal clinics, and community advocacy and engagement.
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.
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.
The center for human rights and constitutional law (chrcl) is a nonprofit organization that advances and protects the rights of immigrants and communities impacted by systems of oppression through training and support, advocacy, and impact…
Advocate for victims of crime within the criminal justice system and protective order cases; provide referrals to social-service agencies that can help crime victims recover. the center's services are available statewide at no cost to…
To empower communities, organizations and individuals to handle disputes constructively by developing and designing appropriate and creative solutions that address all interests, needs, and values.
Orlando Center for Justice, Inc.s mission is to bridge the access to justice gap in Florida for newcomers by helping these underserved communities navigate the legal system through education and innovation. We also walk alongside them,…
The primary purpose of the orange county trial lawyers' charities (octlc) is to make a positive difference in the quality of life for people within the greater orange county area, focusing on issues related to education, children,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Public Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Chapman University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL ↗
- Who funds VETERANS LEGAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Collaborative Courts Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Human Options Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Elder Law and Disability Rights Center ↗
- Who funds WOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES ↗
- Who funds Orange County Bar Foundation ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY JUSTICE FUND ↗
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: Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Orange County Bar Association Charitable Fund 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.
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