California · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,975,506 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($31,002,633). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $38M
- Net assets
- $8.5M
What Community Legal Aid Socal does
Mission
Community Legal Aid Socal provides compassionate, holistic, and impactful legal services to residents of los angeles and orange counties who need help with housing, family law, healthcare access and other areas of law.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Community Legal Aid Socal (cla socal) is dedicated to meeting the civil legal needs of low-income people throughout orange and southeast los angeles counties. Cla socal helps with legal issues related to family law, access to healthcare, public benefits, consumer defense, and housing. Cla socal also has a special unit dedicated to seniors and provides case management to clients who are identified as needing a greater level of support to increase their ability to participate in the legal process. Cla socal offers a full range of legal assistance, including information and referrals, counsel and advice, workshops, clinics, and direct legal representation in each of these areas.
$12,265,949 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,265,949.
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 2025 to 2026, from $12M to $14M (+20%).
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 90% · 2018 96% · 2019 94% · 2021 93% · 2022 81% · 2023 84% · 2024 85% · 2025 96% · 2026 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Kathryn Anne Marr
Executive director
Board chair
Yashina Burns
Board president
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $211k → $5.6M.
6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL’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
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 94% · 2019 91% · 2020 92% · 2021 88% · 2022 88% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $584k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 268 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2026
Government funding COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Justice$750k
- Department of the Treasury$362k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
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 COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL: 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 COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL?
- COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,975,506 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($31,002,633). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $37,975,506 in grants to COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $31,002,633 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 28 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