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PUBLIC COUNSEL
PUBLIC COUNSEL is a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to (see sch o for continuation)advancing civil rights and racial and economic justice, as well as to amplifying the power of our clients through comprehensive legal advocacy.
$382k
Granted FY2024
5
Grants
2
Communities
$132k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of PUBLIC COUNSEL’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
agreement subgranthealth
2023
subgrantee hpiii
2024
subgrantee hpiiirfpsubgrantee tcenonprofit
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $294k
$77,467
Median grant
2
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ACCE INSTITUTE$131,684
- LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY$84,722
- LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW$77,467
- BET TZEDEK$22,380
- EAST LA COMMUNITY CORPORATION$8,413
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 87% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$415k · 3 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +114% since the first grant, against +111% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
3
Total granted
$415k
$63k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+114%
+111%
Still filing today
100%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Housing & ShelterEducationCivil RightsOther
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
- AIACCE INSTITUTE2× · 2023–2024 · $289k · revenue +46%
- BTBET TZEDEK2× · 2023–2024 · $111k · revenue +114%
- ELEAST LA COMMUNITY CORPORATION2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +1020%
Funded once
RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +501%- NLNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES OF LOS ANGELESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +111%
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +34%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Inner City Law Center
Fighting for justice and housing by providing legal representation for the homeless and working poor.
Crime & Legal
2
Equal Justice Center
The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…
Civil Rights
3
Asian Americans Advancing Justice -
The mission of AAAJ-ALC is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist in the United…
Crime & Legal
4
Legal Link
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem. We embed legal navigation support in community-based settings by training and supporting frontline partners.
Crime & Legal
5
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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6
Los Angeles Black Worker Center
The mission of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center is to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ black workers through action and unionization.
Employment
7
Legal Aid Association of California
LAAC is the statewide membership of civil legal nonprofits. We serve our community and their clients by advocating for more legal aid funding, by training legal aid staff, and by coordinating and connecting advocates throughout the state.
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8
Public Counsel
Public counsel is a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to (see sch o for continuation)advancing civil rights and racial and economic justice, as well as to amplifying the power of our clients through comprehensive legal advocacy.
Crime & Legal
9
The Public Interest Law Center
The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…
Crime & Legal
10
Legalcorps
LegalCORPS' mission expands access to business law services for individuals and organizations to promote economic development and stabilize communities. Economic justice means that everyone has opportunities to participate and thrive in…
Crime & Legal
11
Legal Council for Health Justice
Use the power of law to secure dignity, opportunity & well-being for people w/illness & disability.
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12
Latino Business Chamber of Greater La
To facilitate economic structures and policy initiatives that empower Latino business development and foster economic growth across Los Angeles.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Legal Services and the most unlike its peers is Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$298,616Education$288,752Civil Rights$30,000Housing & Shelter$23,115
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 ACCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds EAST LA COMMUNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (NHS) ↗
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.
California Community FoundationCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation PUBLIC COUNSEL 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ACCE INSTITUTE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 271487442 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ACCE INSTITUTE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Public Counsel?
Find your warmest path to Public Counsel through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines