California · Nonprofit
Family Violence Law Center
Family Violence Law Center (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,637,633 to it, the largest being WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA ($453,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Family Violence Law Center does
Mission
FVLC helps diverse communities in Alameda County heal from domestic violence and sexual assault, advocating for justice and healthy relationships. We provide survivor-centered legal and crisis intervention services, offer prevention for youth and other community members, and engage in policy work to create systemic change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
FVLC's Legal Department provided legal information, assessments, paperwork preparation assistance, advice and counsel, and representation to 925 legal clients. In addition, FVLC advocated for systems change to address issues impacting survivors such as homelessness.
$2,125,491 spentof which $735,274 as grants45% of program spendingFVLC's Family Violence Intervention Unit provided survivor-centered services for 2,043 people who experience domestic violence and sexual assault including 24-hour crisis intervention services and case management.
$1,669,060 spentof which $397,223 as grants36% of program spendingFVLC provided prevention initiatives for Youth including youth leadership development, community organizing and community outreach, and education. FVLC completed 3 youth leadership cohorts.
$906,459 spent$2,885 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,701,010.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $3.1M (+101%).
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 87% · 2018 89% · 2019 92% · 2020 85% · 2021 85% · 2022 86% · 2023 92% · 2024 89% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Family Violence Law Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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.
Board chair
David Wallach
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $35k → $430k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Family Violence Law Center’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
Family Violence Law Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 Family Violence Law Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 99% · 2019 69% · 2020 44% · 2021 40% · 2022 41% · 2023 50% — 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
45% of Family Violence Law Center'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
99% of Family Violence Law Center's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $274k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Family Violence Law Center has grown faster 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
Government funding Family Violence Law Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.9M
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 Family Violence Law Center
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Family Violence Law Center: 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 Family Violence Law Center?
- Family Violence Law Center (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,637,633 to it, the largest being WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA ($453,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Family Violence Law Center have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,637,633 in grants to Family Violence Law Center, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Family Violence Law Center?
- WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA is the largest funder on record, with $453,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Family Violence Law Center 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 20 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