California · Nonprofit
NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD OF LOS ANGELES
NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD OF LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $383,139 to it, the largest being NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INC ($333,139). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $39k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $383k
- Net assets
- $3k
What National Lawyers Guild of Los Angeles does
Mission
NLG is the oldest and most extensive network of public interest and human rights legal activists working within the legal system and the movement. With chapters across the country, we are a coalition of anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and anti-fascist lawyers, legal workers, jailhouse lawyers, law students, and community members. All are welcome to get involved!
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To unite lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers to provide critical community based legal advocacy and support services through a framework that prioritizes human rights over property interests.
$289,023 spentof which $104,314 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $289,023.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $297k to $112k (−62%).
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.
0% of NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD OF LOS ANGELES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $306k → $11k.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD OF LOS ANGELES’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
NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD OF LOS ANGELES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
100% 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 NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD OF LOS ANGELES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 38% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD OF LOS ANGELES draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD OF LOS ANGELES's revenue fell 93% between 2020 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,028 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD OF LOS ANGELES
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD OF LOS ANGELES: 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 NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD OF LOS ANGELES?
- NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD OF LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $383,139 to it, the largest being NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INC ($333,139). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD OF LOS ANGELES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $383,139 in grants to NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD OF LOS ANGELES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD OF LOS ANGELES?
- NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $333,139 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD OF LOS ANGELES 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 3 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