California · Nonprofit
Inland Counties Legal Services
Inland Counties Legal Services (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,636,023 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($39,471,153). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $41M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Inland Counties Legal Services does
Mission
Inland Counties Legal Services (ICLS) mission is to pursue justice and equality for low-income individuals through counsel, advice, advocacy, and community education, treating all with dignity and respect. Over the last six decades, ICLS has evolved from its humble beginnings as a 100% volunteer attorney-led organization to become the largest and most comprehensive law firm in our region, with nearly 60 staff attorneys and 100 legal administrative personnel providing free civil legal services to communities across Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Legal Services - Cases: legal advocacy on behalf of low income eligible clients, including the provision of legal advice, limited services (document preparation), and/or direct representation of clients, including court and administrative agency practice. In 2024, ICLS closed 9,353 cases handled by its staff lawyers and paralegals.
$7,380,679 spent$344,537 earned by the program47% of program spendingLegal non-case services or "matters" are activities in the following areas: community legal education: (1) unique website visitors: 55,000 (measured) (2) presentation audiences: 176 and (3) referrals to legal entities: 4,228 and to non-legal entities: none.
$6,448,538 spent41% of program spendingLegal Services - Private Attorney Involvement (PAI) Program: through approved subgrants of federal Legal Services Corporation (LSC) funds, ICLS funded one non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide pro-bono attorney legal assistance to low-income eligible persons residing in Riverside and/or San Bernardino counties. ICLS reports cases closed by subgrantees annually to LSC. In 2024, a total of 83 cases were closed under this program activity.
$1,871,739 spentof which $279,830 as grants12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,700,956.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.3M to $9.9M (+199%).
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 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 95% · 2023 97% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Inland Counties Legal Services’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $5.6M → $6.7M.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Inland Counties Legal Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
Inland Counties Legal Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Inland Counties Legal Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 94% — 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
83% of Inland Counties Legal Services's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 57% 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
Inland Counties Legal Services draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Inland Counties Legal Services has grown faster than half of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Inland Counties Legal Services receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- Department of the Treasury$1.4M
- Department of Justice$600k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$182k
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 Inland Counties Legal Services
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Inland Counties Legal Services: 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 Inland Counties Legal Services?
- Inland Counties Legal Services (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,636,023 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($39,471,153). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Inland Counties Legal Services have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $40,636,023 in grants to Inland Counties Legal Services, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Inland Counties Legal Services?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $39,471,153 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Inland Counties Legal Services 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 14 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