California · Nonprofit
MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW
MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,570 to it, the largest being ACCESSLEX INSTITUTE ($81,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $121k
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Monterey College of Law does
Mission
Monterey College of Law is a tax exempt corporation organized to provide a high-quality, affordable, and challenging legal education for all applicants who meet the academic requirements.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Law school - strategic objectives:1. Improve performance on the california bar exam.2. Maintain quality admission standards.3. Maintain prudent fiscal stewardship.4. Develop collaborative relationships within higher education community.5. Expand recognition and marketing program.6. Expand clinical programs - mandell gisnet center.admissions: mcl continues to be committed to providing opportunities for access to a legal edcuation and the legal profession to all qualified california residents. Admission standards have been consistent over the past five years.mcl's enrollment strategy is to select the most qualified 40 to 60 new students each year while maintaining a relatively constant standard for undergraduate gpa. Our basic goal is to achieve an entering class standard of at least a 3.00 undergraduate gpa. Mcl has exceeded this goal for the past five years. Mcl's overall graduation rate for the past ten years is approximately 75%. Admission standards are competitive on a state-wide level.faculty excellence - 80 local lawyers and judges serve as adjunct faculty.over two-thirds of the current mcl faculty are graduates of tier 1 u.s. Law schools. (us news and world report rankings.)…
$3,383,460 spent$5,560,322 earned by the program86% of program spendingSince 2007, the Monterey College of Law's mandell gisnet center for conflict management has provided mediation program services to the monterey county superior court. The court directed civil mediation referral provides two hours of free mediation from a volunteer experienced lawyer-mediator. The program also provides mediation training for law students and community members.
$410,793 spent10% of program spendingScholarships and heisler moot court programthe college awards scholarships to enrolled law students and administers the heisler moot court for training of law students.
$99,042 spentof which $97,250 as grants3% of program spendingAcademic and librarythe college provides academic and library facilities and services to law students and to the community for research and continuing legal education.
$38,457 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,931,752.
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 $7.7M to $7.0M (−9%).
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 13% · 2023 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $24k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW’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
MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 98% · 2022 67% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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
MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW: 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 MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW?
- MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,570 to it, the largest being ACCESSLEX INSTITUTE ($81,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $120,570 in grants to MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW?
- ACCESSLEX INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $81,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW 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 7 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