California · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC
COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC (California) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,664,769 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($10,869,341). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc does
Mission
To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in east palo alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The immigration program works to keep families together within our community and promote economic stability. We provide direct legal services and outreach to families seeking immigration remedies, incuding asylum and other forms of humanitarian relief, deportation defense, daca renewals, u-visas, and work authorization renewals. Our services impacted 2,500+ household members in fiscal 2025.
$1,457,868 spent$1,334,457 earned by the program43% of program spendingThe housing program works to keep families and community members to remain in safe and stable housing. We provde direct legal services and rental assistance to tenants to stop displacement; we work with pro bono attorneys to provide limited scope representation to tenants in weekly unlawful detainer mandatory settlement conferences; we partner with community groups and coalitions to provide know-your-rights information, and we advocate alongside tenants and families to build a more inclusive silicon valley. Our services impacted 1,884 household members in fiscal 2025.
$1,256,783 spentof which $52,443 as grants$1,150,394 earned by the program37% of program spendingThe economic advancement program works to remove barriers to economic security and stability for people who have past contact with the criminal legal system. We provide direct legal services to provide post-conviction record relief; we assist workers who face workplace challenges like wage theft, harassment, discrimination and retaliation. In fiscal 2025, we removed 213 barriers for 92 clients and recovered $136,000 in unpaid wages and other damages for workers who experienced wage theft and/or unfairness in the workplace.
$659,263 spent$603,454 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,373,914.
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 2019 to 2020, from $5.0M to $7.9M (+57%).
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 13% · 2018 23% · 2019 25% · 2020 17% · 2021 36% · 2022 33% · 2023 60% · 2024 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Katrina Logan
Executive director
Board chair
Michael Flanagan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 24 funders, grant income fell $4.9M → $1.6M.
12 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 47% · 2019 38% · 2020 54% · 2021 39% · 2022 17% · 2023 14% — 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
48% of COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
54% of COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $11M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC?
- COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC (California) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,664,769 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($10,869,341). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $23,664,769 in grants to COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,869,341 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO INC 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 54 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