California · Nonprofit
California Lawyers Foundation
California Lawyers Foundation (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,027 to it, the largest being ROBINS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $882k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $539k
What California Lawyers Foundation does
Mission
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. We believe in a profession that mirrors our population, in access to justice for all and in a society that understands the equalizing role of the rule of law and judicial branch.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Program Service Accomplishments1.2024 CLPC Legislative Day: Sacramento, CAProgram Description: A full day with students from different CLPC High School Law Academies. Agenda included observation of live assembly at the State Capitol in Sacramento, tour of the Capitol and courts, listening keynote speakers, assembly leaders as well as a conversation with a panel.Attendees 100 students2.2024 CLPC SymposiumProgram Description: Full day, 2 track program catering to Law Academy Teaching Teams offering program development by Street Law and an Advisory Board, Administrators and Volunteers session catering to best practices in building and maintaining successful law academies.Attendees - 583.2024 CLF Civics Engagement & Outreach Program for Elementary Schools (Luncheon at the Annual Meeting)Program Description: Catered to elementary schools, students will meet and learn about judges and the courts and how the judicial branch interprets the law fairly. Designed to underscore the importance of civic engagement to maintain a vibrant and healthy society students have the capability to interact with judges and lawyers.Attendees 207
$409,635 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $409,635.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $186k to $486k (+162%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of California Lawyers Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Chris Nguyen
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $17.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $964k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest California Lawyers Association). These are real filings, and they are not money California Lawyers Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of California Lawyers Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
California Lawyers Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
California Lawyers Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
California Lawyers Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like California Lawyers Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- California Lawyers Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for California Lawyers Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds California Lawyers Foundation?
- California Lawyers Foundation (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,027 to it, the largest being ROBINS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does California Lawyers Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,027 in grants to California Lawyers Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of California Lawyers Foundation?
- ROBINS KAPLAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like California Lawyers Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing