California · Nonprofit
Pangea Legal Services
Pangea Legal Services (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,735,336 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,330,709). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Pangea Legal Services does
Mission
Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Direct Legal Representation: In 2025, Pangea has proudly represented 380 people in complex immigration matters. This includes asylum, family petitions, permanent residency, cancellation of removal and immigrant visas. Weve also offered more than 100 free legal consultations consisting of individualized legal advice, Know Your Rights orientations, and referrals. ANAR Launched a multilingual monthly community education webinar series with over 1,500 unique attendees. Held 4 workshops with volunteer attorneys providing free assistance to asylum, adjustment of status, and work authorization applicants. Organized community outreach efforts across California.
$1,845,788 spent$87,094 earned by the program87% of program spendingEducation and Legal Empowerment: In 2025, Pangea worked to resource and protect communities. Pangea continues to provide free consultations, monthly asylum Know Your Rights workshops, Healing Justice workshops, and Pro bono clinics. Pangea also successfully launched our hybrid Employment Authorization Document (EAD) clinic for asylum seekers. With the assistance of pro bono attorney attorney teams from Morrison Foerster (MoFo), we successfully prepared 60 EAD applications for Bay Area residents. In 2025, Pangea continues to hold a central role in Rapid Response Coverage around the Bay Area. We provide coverage across San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties. This year, Pangea also stepped further into a leadership role regionally. We have helped coordinate the expansion of rapid response networks around the Bay Area, from recruiting and training new partner organizations to join the ranks of emergency legal responders, to training community members to serve community responder volunteers and dispatches, to convening strategy conversations within and across our networks. In partnership with Mission Action, Pangea helps ALEP workshop participants, who do not have…
$266,910 spentof which $14,760 as grants$6,233 earned by the program13% of program spendingPolicy Advocacy: In May 2025, FREE SF resourced Indivisible SF to create their call to action urging District Attorney Jenkins to end her collusion with federal agencies that have fast-tracked immigrants into ICE detention and deportation. This was the first time that Indivisible SF meaningfully engaged with this campaign. FREE SF met frequently with Indivisible SF, ultimately inviting them to join FREE SF as a partner in our work to disentangle law enforcement from ICE and other federal agencies targeting immigrant communities.
$1,253 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,113,951.
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 $1.4M to $4.0M (+189%).
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 22% · 2018 39% · 2019 49% · 2020 32% · 2021 27% · 2022 39% · 2023 52% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Pangea Legal Services’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $507k → $1.2M.
17 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 Pangea Legal Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 funders by total. 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
Pangea Legal Services has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
79% 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 Pangea Legal Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 54% · 2019 36% · 2020 22% · 2021 17% · 2022 18% · 2023 27% — 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.
How long its funders stay
52% of Pangea Legal Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
95% of Pangea Legal Services's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Pangea Legal Services runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Pangea Legal Services
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
83% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pangea Legal Services: 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 Pangea Legal Services?
- Pangea Legal Services (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,735,336 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,330,709). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pangea Legal Services have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $10,735,336 in grants to Pangea Legal Services, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pangea Legal Services?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,330,709 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pangea Legal Services 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 51 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