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MEXICAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY
MEXICAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $61,500 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($61,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $428k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $62k
- Net assets
- $362k
What Mexican American Bar Association of Los Angeles County does
Mission
The specific and primary purposes for which this association is formed shall be to advance the science of jurisprudence; to promote the administration of justice; to encourage a comprehensive legal education; to maintain the honor and dignity of the legal profession; and to cultivate social interactions among its members.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization achieved its goal of encouraging and providing continued legal education for its members and law students by hosting and co sponsoring various legal continuing education seminars.
The organization achieved its goal of cultivating social interaction among its members by hosting networking events throughout the year.
The organization achieved its goal of promoting the administration of justice by hosting and sponsoring its annual pro bono legal fair. This event offers free lagal advice and information to the community at large.
The organization achieved its goal of promoting advancement in the legal profession by offering attorney and judicial mentorship opportunities to law students. In addition, the organization provided judicial externship program. Finally, the organization conducted presentations to students in elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as in community colleges, to discuss their academic and professional careers.attorney mentorship program.the maba attorney mentorship program (amp) provides maba's student members with the opportunity to build lasting relationships with prominent and experienced maba attorneys who provide study, career, and job-search advice and guidance to latino law students.the goal of the program is simple: to match members of the los angeles legal community with energetic law students sharing similar professional aspirations or academic interests. Attorneys serve as role models, offer academic and career advice, and guide students as they develop important professional networks.during 2023, an estimated of 10-15 pairs of mentors and students attendend the attorney mentorship program. Maba judicial externship program.in 2013, the Mexican American Bar…
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2023 to 2024, from $245k to $362k (+48%).
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.
5% of MEXICAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $10k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MEXICAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MEXICAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MEXICAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MEXICAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEXICAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: 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 MEXICAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY?
- MEXICAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $61,500 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($61,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MEXICAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $61,500 in grants to MEXICAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEXICAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $61,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEXICAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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