California · Nonprofit
ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (California) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,336,568 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($3,701,320). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.0M
- Funders on record
- 114
- Grants received
- $29M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Ella Baker Center for Human Rights does
Mission
The organization advances racial and economic justice to ensure dignity and opportunity for low-income people and people of color.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Justice reform and community organizing: the organization's work is informed by a "truth and reinvestment" framework; "truth" means reckoning with the reality of racial injustice from slavery to jim crow to our current criminal justice system. "reinvestment" means leading a material shift in resources away from the punishment economy and toward programs that promote economic empowerment for families and neighborhoods. The organization's key programs include:1. People powered policy - the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights works with members and allies throughout california to advance state and local policy priorities including curbing extreme sentences, ending abusive practices inside prisons and jails, keeping families connected with their loved ones who are locked up, and reducing the financial burdens faced by incarcerated people and their families. 2. Pathways to freedom - the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights supports the advocacy of individuals and families who are seeking freedom for their loved ones and works to ensure recent policy wins have the most robust implementation possible. Ebc advances pathways to freedom by developing and distributing written resources and…
$3,917,170 spent$150 earned by the program100% of program spendingRestore oakland: a joint initiative between the ebc and restaurant opportunities center united, inc. ("rocu"), restore oakland is a community advocacy and training center that equips residents with the tools they need to make a secure economic future possible for themselves and for their families. The restore oakland model leads with organizing and advocacy to build real power and self-determination for our communities while also providing hands-on job training, business incubation, restorative justice mediation and housing rights services all in one space. Restore oakland is the home of ebc's headquarters, as well as affordable office space for other oakland-based social justice groups.
$4,693 spent$1,229,056 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,921,863.
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 2017 to 2018, from $7.6M to $11M (+40%).
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: 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Marlene Sanchez
Executive director
Board chair
Holly Delaney Cole
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $2.1M.
29 of 114 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 114 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
ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% 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
49% 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 ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 45% · 2019 47% · 2020 21% · 2021 13% · 2022 24% · 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
40% of ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
80% of ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Ella Baker Center Action Fund · exempt
- Ro Leverage Lender LLC · partnership
- 1419 34th Avenue LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS?
- ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (California) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,336,568 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($3,701,320). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS have?
- IRS filings report 114 organizations giving $29,336,568 in grants to ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $3,701,320 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 114 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