California · Nonprofit
LINCOLN LAW SCHOOL OF SAN JOSE
LINCOLN LAW SCHOOL OF SAN JOSE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,000 to it, the largest being THE DAVIDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $729k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $350k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Lincoln Law School of San Jose does
Mission
The goal of Lincoln Law School of San Jose is to provide a superior legal education to its students culminating in the conferral of the juris doctor degree and certification to sit for the california bar examination. (continued on schedule o)Lincoln Law School of San Jose seeks a diverse student body and to provide opportunity to those who are academically qualified for the study and practice of law.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The school provides legal educations to students.27 students registered and enrolled throughout the fall 2024, 26 in spring 2025, and 14 in summer 2025 academic year.
$766,043 spentof which $7,000 as grants$586,871 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $766,043.
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.
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 $914k to $439k (−52%).
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 16% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Claude Fletcher
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of LINCOLN LAW SCHOOL OF SAN JOSE’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
LINCOLN LAW SCHOOL OF SAN JOSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
29% 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 LINCOLN LAW SCHOOL OF SAN JOSE.
“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
100% of LINCOLN LAW SCHOOL OF SAN JOSE's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like LINCOLN LAW SCHOOL OF SAN JOSE
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
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Lincoln Licensing LLC · disregarded
- Lincoln Law School of San Jose Endowment Foundation · exempt
- Lincoln Law School Small Business Clinic · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LINCOLN LAW SCHOOL OF SAN JOSE: 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 LINCOLN LAW SCHOOL OF SAN JOSE?
- LINCOLN LAW SCHOOL OF SAN JOSE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,000 to it, the largest being THE DAVIDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINCOLN LAW SCHOOL OF SAN JOSE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $350,000 in grants to LINCOLN LAW SCHOOL OF SAN JOSE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINCOLN LAW SCHOOL OF SAN JOSE?
- THE DAVIDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINCOLN LAW SCHOOL OF SAN JOSE 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 2 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