California · Nonprofit
Casa Cornelia Legal Services
Casa Cornelia Legal Services (California) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,558,953 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,304,550). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Casa Cornelia Legal Services does
Mission
Casa Cornelia Law Center CCLC provides a bridge to justice for people who come to the US from around the world seeking safe refuge.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Casa cornelia law center (cclc) provides free legal services to san diego's most vulnerable residents, indigent immigrants with legitimate claims to humanitarian-based immigration relief. We focused on three main areas in 2023 - (1) unaccompanied children, served 1,159 children either detained by immigration authorities or non-detained children identified in the community, an increase of 29% from the previous year; (2) victims of domestic violence, human trafficking, and other serious crimes, responded to 517 individuals, a 17% increase; and (3) responded to 1,137 asylum seekers who fled to the u.s. Due to persecution or torture, and this number includes the 160 afghan clients. In 2023, cclc continued to provide services despite the many challenges faced by its clients and an increase in the number of asylum seekers. In 2023, cclc responded to 2,650 individuals (almost a 20% increase from the previous year) from 77 nations speaking 56 languages. Not included in the program expenses is the significant value of volunteer legal services alone in the amount of 824,397 contributed or donated services, a marked increase of 30% from the previous year.
$2,671,969 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,671,969.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $13M (+26%).
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: 2022 25% · 2023 48% · 2024 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Casa Cornelia Legal Services’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Gloria Bader
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $236k → $902k.
17 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Casa Cornelia Legal Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 funders by total. 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
Casa Cornelia Legal Services has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
61% 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 Casa Cornelia Legal Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 22% · 2019 30% · 2020 21% · 2021 43% · 2022 24% · 2023 26% — 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.
How long its funders stay
52% of Casa Cornelia Legal Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
77% of Casa Cornelia Legal Services's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states 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
Casa Cornelia Legal Services runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Casa Cornelia Legal Services
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Casa Cornelia Legal Services: 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 Casa Cornelia Legal Services?
- Casa Cornelia Legal Services (California) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,558,953 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,304,550). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Casa Cornelia Legal Services have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $7,558,953 in grants to Casa Cornelia Legal Services, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Casa Cornelia Legal Services?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,304,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Casa Cornelia Legal Services 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 74 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing