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CENTER FOR ACCESS TO QDROS

CENTER FOR ACCESS TO QDROS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being California Access to Justice Commission ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$200k
Net assets
$34k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Center for Access to Qdros does

Mission

To protect and promote the retirement security of workers, retirees, and their families through a low cost retirement benefits division platform and free legal education to low income persons.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The center's legal education program provided free mcle webinars on a variety of topics related to retirement benefit division, including qdros for support to collect support arrearages and crucial pre-judgement steps to take to ensure retirement benefits are protected pending entry of the qdro, like notices of adverse interest ("nais") or joinders.

    $375,971 spent
    33% of program spending
  2. Provided bespoke qdro basics or qdro issue-spotting trainings for specific qlsps as requested. The issue-spotting trainings are particularly useful for programs that do not offer family law services but which work with large numbers of seniors, who may have lingering qdro issues unresolved from a past divorce.

    $375,971 spent
    33% of program spending
  3. Provided consultation and technical assistance including being available for questions on an as needed basis and consulting with staff at legal aids and self-help centers to determine what qdro services a particular case may need and develop a plan in partnership with them to secure their client's interest.

    $375,971 spent
    33% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,127,913.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($152k) Expenses 100 ($127k) Net assets 100 ($26k)2024 Revenue 188 ($286k) Expenses 275 ($348k) Net assets -160 ($-41064)2025 Revenue 857 ($1.3M) Expenses 967 ($1.2M) Net assets 133 ($34k)
202320242025
Revenue (857)Expenses (967)Net assets (133)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $473 to $981k (+207215%).

$26k
$473
$981k
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of CENTER FOR ACCESS TO QDROS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,090 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’23
−$62k
’24
$80k
’25
8.7
months of
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.

20242025
Listed48
Joined·+4
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
'25*
total
$50k
funders
2
2
1

From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR ACCESS TO QDROS’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

CENTER FOR ACCESS TO QDROS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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 CENTER FOR ACCESS TO QDROS.

75%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

75% of CENTER FOR ACCESS TO QDROS's grant income comes from California funders.

NV
CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CENTER FOR ACCESS TO QDROS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 497 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · below the median
Months of reserve8.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)193% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like CENTER FOR ACCESS TO QDROS

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Qdro Counsel LLC · corp_trust

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR ACCESS TO QDROS: 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 CENTER FOR ACCESS TO QDROS?
CENTER FOR ACCESS TO QDROS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being California Access to Justice Commission ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTER FOR ACCESS TO QDROS have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $200,000 in grants to CENTER FOR ACCESS TO QDROS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR ACCESS TO QDROS?
California Access to Justice Commission is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTER FOR ACCESS TO QDROS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), 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