· Public charity
The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation
The Foundation is organized and operated to make gifts to other section 501c3 organizations that engage in activities that a improve the quality of life and community b further the professional and educational interest of the legal profession and c conduct charitable educational and or community activities.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k254 grants · $885k
- $10k–50k71 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $903k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bay Area Legal Aid | $135,000 |
| Law Foundation of Silicon Valley | $133,820 |
| Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto | $101,000 |
| Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area | $98,100 |
| Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area | $98,100 |
| Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area | $98,100 |
| California Community Foundation | $68,233 |
| Center for Justice & Accountability | $61,000 |
| Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles | $60,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $50,000 |
| Stanford University | $42,500 |
| Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums | $39,070 |
| Tahirih Justice Center | $35,000 |
| Combined Campaign for Justice | $35,000 |
| Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County | $35,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $252k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
100 repeat relationships: 79 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 152 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $768k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BABAY AREA LEGAL AID6× · 2020–2025 · $765k · revenue +46%
- LFLaw Foundation of Silicon Valley6× · 2020–2025 · $764k · revenue +18%
- LCLawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area6× · 2020–2025 · $594k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -51%
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2022 · $57k · revenue +8%
MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +138%
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.
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.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
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.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
The Legal Aid Association of California, the statewide membership of legal services nonprofits, serves its members through advocacy and other support in efforts to provide legal assistance to low-income Californians and ensure access to…
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.
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.
FVLC helps diverse communities in Alameda County heal from domestic violence and sexual assault, advocating for justice and healthy relationships. We provide survivor-centered legal and crisis intervention services, offer prevention for…
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
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…
Central california legal services is a private, not-for-profit, public interest law firm established for the purpose of providing free civil legal assistance to low-income individuals, families, organizations and communities.
How this is measured
280 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. 280 of the 284 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BAY AREA LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds Law Foundation of Silicon Valley ↗
- Who funds Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area ↗
- Who funds Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD JUSTICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid at Work ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds UC LAW SF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Smuin Ballet ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CHANGELAWYERS ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
- Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
- Who funds Equal Justice Society ↗
- Who funds The Clearity Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOINT VENTURE SILICON VALLEY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together Peninsula ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds AIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO VOLUNTEER LAWYER PROGRAM INC ↗
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 Morrison & Foerster Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Perkins Coie Foundation · Equal Justice Works · California Access to Justice Commission · The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation · Munger Tolles & Olson Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Littler Mendelson Foundation Inc Attn Tax Manager · The San Francisco Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · California Changelawyers
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Child Inc: 71% of income from government
- Center for Medicare Advocacy Inc: 63% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Society Inc: 38% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc: 26% of income from government
- Innocence Delaware Inc: 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in: 9% of income from government
- Delaware Bar Foundation: 6% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
- Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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