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Children's Law Offices

Children's Law Offices (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being THE ROCK FOUNDATION ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$49k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$6k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Children's Law Offices does

Mission

Free comprehensive legal services to children

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. CLO opened 5-6 cases which could be quickly resolvedand successfully completed 10 which were still active. I recommendedattorneys for those juveniles still under court jurisdiction until age 21.

    $65,384 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $65,384.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($62k) Expenses 100 ($95k) Net assets 100 ($24k)2021 Revenue 103 ($64k) Expenses 61 ($58k) Net assets 123 ($30k)2022 Revenue 80 ($49k) Expenses 76 ($73k) Net assets 26 ($6k)
202020212022
Revenue (80)Expenses (76)Net assets (26)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 2021 to 2022, from $30k to $11k (−63%).

$30k
$30k
$11k
202020212022
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.

2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

10% of Children's Law Offices’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,020 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$33k
’20
$6k
’21
−$23k
’22

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Carole L Brill

Executive Director

Board chair

Manual Abascal

Board President

As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $6k.

Funder
'20
'21
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Children's Law Offices’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.

Where its funders are

100% of Children's Law Offices's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
California out of state home

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

Children's Law Offices's revenue fell 20% between 2020 and 2022.

Operating margin−47% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,550 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2022

Organizations like Children's Law Offices

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In California

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05Profile & governance

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

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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Children's Law Offices: 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 Children's Law Offices?
Children's Law Offices (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being THE ROCK FOUNDATION ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Children's Law Offices have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,000 in grants to Children's Law Offices, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Children's Law Offices?
THE ROCK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Children's Law Offices 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 FY2022 (financials across 2020–2022), and the filings of 1 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