California · Nonprofit
LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS
LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,851,671 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($670,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Legal Assistance for Seniors does
Mission
Ensuring the independence and dignity of seniors by protecting their legal rights through education, counseling and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Legal - las has been advocating for alameda county seniors for over 45 years. We provide free legal services, including representation in court and at administrative hearings. Our practice areas include elder abuse, public benefits, guardianship of minor children, naturalization, health law, limited conservatorships, and housing. In the housing area, las also provides limited case management to clients who need support in obtaining and stabilizing their housing. We are also court appointed to represent proposed conservatees. We make home visits to our clients who because of their health or economic situations cannot come to our office. During the year, our attorneys and advocates provided legal services to 3,102 seniors.
$1,531,689 spentof which $22,158 as grants$281,863 earned by the program63% of program spendingHealth insurance counseling and advocacy program (hicap)-the alameda county hicap of las provides individual counseling, advocacy and community education on medicare, supplemental options, medicare advantage and prescription drug plans, long term care insurance, and screening and application assistance for low-income programs. The hicap department provides these services through 7 paid staff persons and 34 trained and state-registered volunteer counselors at 24 counseling sites throughout the county. Complex issues are referred to the legal department for assessment and action. In fy 2024/25, hicap counseled 2,214 individual clients and recorded 6,203 separate contacts with these clients. Hicap staff and volunteers contributed 2293, counseling hours and an additional 1,407 hours of training, community education, and travel time. The legal department represented 34 clients with health law cases.
$479,662 spent20% of program spendingCommunity education-las provides group education presentations and agency representation at community events such as health and senior fairs. Legal presentation topics include consumer protection, elder abuse prevention, guardianship, housing, supportive information for aging in place, naturalization, and public benefits. In fy 2024/25, the legal department provided 104 presentations, reaching 2,392 people. Hicap presentation topics include medicare coverage and rights, options for supplementing medicare, low]income assistance programs for health care, medicare and consumer fraud, and long-term care insurance. Our hicap program participated in 163 community education events, reaching 5,118 attendees. Two full]time staff persons schedule and coordinate all the events and deliver most presentations and training in the county. One full time staff provides data entry support.
$276,476 spent11% of program spendingConservatorship -las is appointed by the alameda county superior court to represent conservatees. Las serves the conservatee, a person whom the court has deemed is unable to handle their personal affairs, financial affairs, or is susceptible to undue influence.
$132,441 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,420,268.
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 $1.1M to $4.4M (+308%).
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 72% · 2018 60% · 2019 60% · 2020 57% · 2021 65% · 2022 30% · 2023 65% · 2024 71% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Caitlin Chan
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $103k → $397k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS’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
LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
53% 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 LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 54% · 2019 24% · 2020 31% · 2021 35% · 2022 36% · 2023 25% — 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
67% of LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
100% of LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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
LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS is better cushioned than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS: 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 LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS?
- LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,851,671 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($670,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,851,671 in grants to LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $670,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS 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 22 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