California · Nonprofit
CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA
CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA (California) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,431,335 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($5,049,300). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 104
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Centro Legal de la Raza does
Mission
Centro Legal De La Raza is a comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income immigrant communities throguh culturally competent bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Centro Legal De La Raza's core legal services include full scope representation referrals, and counsel and advice to more than 10,000 individuals each year. Key programs include the tenants' rights program, which promotes safe, stable, and healthy housing by helping fight unlawful evictions, rent increases, and bad conditions; the workers' rights program which promotes lawful, fair, and safe working conditions and employment practices by helping low-wage workers defend against wage theft, discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination, and the immigration program which promotes family stability and economic security by representing our most vulnerable community members, including families living in poverty, long residing undocumented immigrants and families, youth victims of violent crimes, asylum seekers, dreamers, those facing deportation.
$9,622,514 spentof which $2,792,176 as grants96% of program spendingCentro Legal De La Raza's youth law academy is building a diversity pipeline into higher education and the law by helping low-income youth of color enroll in and graduate from college, as well as explore professional careers. The first phase is a three-year after-school program that provides comprehensive support services to help youth graduate high school and prepare for college. The second phase is a college component, which helps students transition to college with a plan to fund their education and provides ongoing case management to ensure persistence.
$437,119 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,059,633.
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 2020 to 2021, from $7.7M to $11M (+49%).
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 28% · 2018 50% · 2019 64% · 2020 46% · 2021 74% · 2022 95% · 2023 89% · 2024 80% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Stephanie Tang
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 38 funders, grant income fell $2.5M → $2.2M.
26 of 104 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 104 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
CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
70% 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 CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 66% · 2019 56% · 2020 22% · 2021 32% · 2022 16% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“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
45% of CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
81% of CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA is better cushioned than half of the 165 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 165 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA
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
83% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: 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 CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA?
- CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA (California) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,431,335 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($5,049,300). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA have?
- IRS filings report 104 organizations giving $24,431,335 in grants to CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,049,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 104 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