California · Nonprofit
Public First Law Center
Public First Law Center (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being Hawaii Leadership Forum CO CFM ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Public First Law Center is better cushioned than half of the 2,529 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,529 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Chamber of Commerce of Hawaiilocal
- Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Incportfolio match
- Iwamoto Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
88% of Public First Law Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Chamber of Commerce of HawaiilocalHI · funds 213 organizations near you
- Donald and Astrid Monson Education Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iwamoto Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hawaii Justice Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frost Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Finance Factors Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abigail K K Kawananakoa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The O L Moore Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cades Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aloha Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hawaii Women's Legal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kenneth and Diane Matsuura Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Public First Law Center
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
80% 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 Public First Law Center: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Public First Law Center?
- Public First Law Center (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being Hawaii Leadership Forum CO CFM ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Public First Law Center have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to Public First Law Center, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Public First Law Center?
- Hawaii Leadership Forum CO CFM is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Public First Law Center 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 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing