California · Nonprofit
CAPITAL PRO BONO
CAPITAL PRO BONO (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,254 to it, the largest being AMERICAN COLLEGE OF BANKRUPTCY FOUNDATION ($24,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $921k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Capital Pro Bono does
Mission
Provides free civil legal services to indigent persons in sacramento and surrounding counties through the efforts of approximately 47 attorneys and 4 non-attorney volunteers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provided free legal help to indigent residents of the sacramento region primarily through the use of volunteer attorneys, law students, paralegals and interpreters. These volunteers contributed many hours of their time. The type of legal problems addressed include bankruptcy, wrongful denial of unemployment insurance, wage and hour violations, family law, debt collection, probate, conservatorship of adults, estate planning and guardianships of minors, and the assistance provided ranged from self-help and educational services to full scale representation. Capital Pro Bono had 44 attorneys and 1 paralegal who volunteered their time and donated 1,056.9 hours in 2024 and served 449 clients.revenue is generated by settlement income.
$653,668 spent$315,943 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $653,668.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $1.4M (+22%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 49% · 2018 74% · 2019 45% · 2020 47% · 2021 37% · 2022 60% · 2023 40% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Gary F Smith
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $41.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $529k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Legal Services of Northern California). These are real filings, and they are not money CAPITAL PRO BONO raised.
From the IRS filings of CAPITAL PRO BONO’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
CAPITAL PRO BONO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CAPITAL PRO BONO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 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
CAPITAL PRO BONO draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $254 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.
Organizations like CAPITAL PRO BONO
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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
- Legal Services of Northern California · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAPITAL PRO BONO: 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 CAPITAL PRO BONO?
- CAPITAL PRO BONO (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,254 to it, the largest being AMERICAN COLLEGE OF BANKRUPTCY FOUNDATION ($24,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAPITAL PRO BONO have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $24,254 in grants to CAPITAL PRO BONO, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPITAL PRO BONO?
- AMERICAN COLLEGE OF BANKRUPTCY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $24,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPITAL PRO BONO 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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