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King Hall Legal Foundation

King Hall Legal Foundation (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,375 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($23,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$105k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$30k
Net assets
$85k
1/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What King Hall Legal Foundation does

Mission

Dedicated to increasing equal access to the American Legal System for underserved populations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Public Interest Grants provided to fund law students

    $52,475 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $52,475.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($64k) Expenses 100 ($62k) Net assets 100 ($89k)2018 Revenue 82 ($52k) Expenses 74 ($46k) Net assets 124 ($110k)2020 Revenue 122 ($78k) Expenses 175 ($109k) Net assets 90 ($80k)2021 Revenue 170 ($108k) Expenses 141 ($88k) Net assets 113 ($100k)2022 Revenue 126 ($80k) Expenses 152 ($95k) Net assets 97 ($86k)2023 Revenue 123 ($79k) Expenses 121 ($75k) Net assets 101 ($89k)2024 Revenue 145 ($92k) Expenses 142 ($88k) Net assets 99 ($88k)2025 Revenue 165 ($105k) Expenses 173 ($108k) Net assets 96 ($85k)
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Revenue (165)Expenses (173)Net assets (96)

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 $89k to $111k (+24%).

$89k
$111k
$80k
$100k
$86k
$89k
$88k
$85k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’17
$6k
’18
−$31k
’20
$20k
’21
−$14k
’22
$3k
’23
$4k
’24
−$3k
’25
0.1
months of
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.

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Listed171816161519813
Joined·+12·+7+9+9+1+10
No longer listed·11·7105125
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $300 → $75.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 King Hall Legal Foundation’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

King Hall Legal Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

76%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 67% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

Where its funders are

King Hall Legal Foundation draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.

CA
MO
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’21
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like King Hall Legal Foundation

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

49% of spending goes to programs.

Program 49%Management 7%Fundraising 44%

Governance

13
board members
54%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for King Hall Legal Foundation: 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 King Hall Legal Foundation?
King Hall Legal Foundation (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,375 to it, the largest being LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($23,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does King Hall Legal Foundation have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $30,375 in grants to King Hall Legal Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of King Hall Legal Foundation?
LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like King Hall Legal Foundation 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 6 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