California · Nonprofit
Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges of Law
Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges of Law (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $538,794 to it, the largest being COLLEGES OF LAW LEGACY CORPORATION ($538,794). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $539k
- Net assets
- $9.8M
What Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges of Law does
Mission
The mission of The Colleges of Law is to provide access to law and law-related professions through emphasizing opportunity, academic excellence, and community engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Colleges of Law ("COL") is a California nonprofit corporation that operates as a law school with campus locations in Santa Barbara and Ventura, California. COL provides high quality legal education delivered through two modalities: an evening, onsite option and a hybrid (70 percent online and 30 percent onsite) option, leading to the award of a Juris Doctor Degree and eligibility to sit for the California State Bar Examination. COL also offers a Master of Business, Law, and Technology via distance learning.(See continuation on Schedule O)Founded to provide an opportunity for men and women of all ages, backgrounds, and life experiences to enter the legal profession, COL seeks to develop graduates who will be competent practitioners and who recognize and adhere to the high level of ethics, professional responsibility, and civic duty our society expects of lawyers. Duringthe fiscal year ended May 31, 2025, COL provided education to over 350students.
$4,927,858 spentof which $83,986 as grants$7,545,177 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,927,858.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $5.0M to $7.2M (+45%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 4% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Farfalla Borah
Trustee/Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges of Law's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
Government funding Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges of Law receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $777k on record.
- Department of Education$777k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges 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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 10 related entities
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- TCS Education System · exempt
- The Chicago School - Washington DC Inc · exempt
- The Chicago School - California Inc · exempt
- Pacific Oaks Education Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges 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 Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges of Law?
- Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges of Law (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $538,794 to it, the largest being COLLEGES OF LAW LEGACY CORPORATION ($538,794). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges of Law have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $538,794 in grants to Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges of Law.
- Who is the largest funder of Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges of Law?
- COLLEGES OF LAW LEGACY CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $538,794 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges 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 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