California · Nonprofit
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL INC
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being CONTRA COSTA COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $400k
What Independent Counsel Inc does
Mission
This nonprofit mutual benefit corporation is organized to promote social welfare within the meaning of section 501(c)(4) to coordinate appointment of legal counsel to represent adult and indigent individuals in court actions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The program handled 3,139 cases in fy25, assigning counsel to represent indigent people in criminal, juvenile, probate, and immigration cases. To improve the quality of the indigent defense, the program continues to support attorneys through the attorney support division, offering access to social workers, paralegals, research attorneys and mentors. Ici is an accredited state bar mcle provider. In fy25, the program offered 7 mcle trainings to attorneys on topics of mental health diversion, hearsay, special immigrant juvenile status, crime lab discovery and dna, new laws 2025, introduction to federal courts, and tools for challenging rap evidence in the courtroom.
$4,194,959 spent$37,967 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,194,959.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $528k to $159k (−70%).
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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of INDEPENDENT COUNSEL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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 6 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.
Against its field
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL INC receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like INDEPENDENT COUNSEL INC
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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
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDEPENDENT COUNSEL 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 INDEPENDENT COUNSEL INC?
- INDEPENDENT COUNSEL INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being CONTRA COSTA COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDEPENDENT COUNSEL INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to INDEPENDENT COUNSEL INC.
- Who is the largest funder of INDEPENDENT COUNSEL INC?
- CONTRA COSTA COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDEPENDENT COUNSEL 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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