California · Nonprofit
EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC
EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,298,155 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($624,330). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What East Bay Childrens Law Offices Inc does
Mission
The mission of the East Bay Childrens Law Offices, Inc. is to protect and defend the rights of children and youth through holistic, vigorous and compassionate legal advocacy. EBCLO strives to provide a voice for children in and out of court and to promote positive outcomes for them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Dependency Advocacy Program: East Bay Childrens Law Offices is appointed by the Alameda County Superior Court to represent children and youth in juvenile dependency cases at all stages of juvenile dependency court proceedings which begin when Alameda County Social Services files a petition alleging abuse or neglect of children by their parents or guardians. From the initial detention hearing through the child exiting the system, our multi-disciplinary model of representation focuses on empowering the childs voice in decisions that really matter and identifying and requesting services needed by our clients. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)
$3,314,435 spent$332,537 earned by the program100% of program spendingProbate Guardianship Counsel for Children Program: EBCLO is appointed to represent children in a limited number of probate guardianship proceedings. The multi-disciplinary EBCLO team assesses the appropriateness of the guardianship and assists the children and their families in obtaining necessary community-based services through comprehensive case management. While children are not entitled to an attorney in probate court proceedings, EBCLO is appointed in the most complex and challenging cases before the court. In 2025, we represented 72 children in probate court and helped to secure guardianship orders for 16 children. We also successfully advocated for 3 children to stay with or return to their parents care.
Community-based Advocacy for Resources and Education (CARE): The CARE program uses a trauma-informed approach to address the needs of our child clients beyond the four walls of the courtroom. CARE provides intensive and individualized support through specialist attorneys and social workers who hone in on key areas of practiceeducation, mental health, juvenile justice and early childhood developmentto maximize positive outcomes for our child clients. Staff provided education-related services to over 250 children in over 30 different school districts, which included advocacy at 77 school meetings. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,314,435.
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 $2.2M to $3.1M (+42%).
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 76% · 2018 71% · 2019 65% · 2020 71% · 2021 76% · 2022 75% · 2023 74% · 2024 75% · 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $232k → $385k.
8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
60% 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 EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 27% · 2019 28% · 2020 34% · 2021 23% · 2022 19% · 2023 22% — 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
58% of EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
74% of EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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
EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC: 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 EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC?
- EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,298,155 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($624,330). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $3,298,155 in grants to EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $624,330 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES 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 39 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