California · Nonprofit
HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW
HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,510,195 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($409,916). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law does
Mission
Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law is a non-profit corporation organized in 1984 that ensures meaningful access to justice in the family law system by providing free legal services, education, and advocacy for low-income residents of los angeles county.Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law is a non-profit corporation organized in 1984 that ensures meaningful access to justice in the family law system by providing free legal services, education, and advocacy for low-income residents of los angeles county. The organization's work empowers clients to protect themselves and their children from domestic violence, poverty, housing insecurity, and other barriers to lasting stability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Family law and domestic violence legal services: provide legal consultations, case management services, and in court representation in child custody and visitation, child support, parentage, restraining orders, divorce, property division, and spousal support.education and advocacy: deliver targeted workshops and clinics, partner with community colleges and domestic violence shelters, mobilize pro bono support for urgent cases, and engage in policy advocacy to address systemic barriers in the family law system.
$2,368,873 spent$1,197 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,368,873.
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 $2.0M to $3.5M (+72%).
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 9% · 2018 13% · 2019 12% · 2020 19% · 2021 27% · 2022 25% · 2023 37% · 2024 30% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW’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. 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
Stacy Horth-Neubert
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $325k → $398k.
12 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
68% 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 HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 34% · 2019 35% · 2020 33% · 2021 24% · 2022 21% · 2023 33% — 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
53% of HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
55% of HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW's revenue grew 34% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW
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
97%
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 HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW: 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 HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW?
- HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,510,195 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($409,916). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,510,195 in grants to HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $409,916 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARRIETT BUHAI CENTER FOR FAMILY LAW 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 42 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