California · Nonprofit
THE ACCESS PROJECT INC
THE ACCESS PROJECT INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,353 to it, the largest being LAW ROCKS INC ($60,803). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $372k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $218k
- Net assets
- $11k
What The Access Project Inc does
Mission
The Access Project facilitates and performs free legal services for low-income persons and underserved communities in California
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Continued Rising Scholars Program from 2023 serving justice-impacted and formerly incarcerated community college students from community colleges around the state of California. Conducted know-your-rights meetings at 49 colleges. Conducted 11 volunteer training and post-conviction record analysis workshops with pro bono attorneys at prominent law firms and corporate in-house law departments. Matched 286 pro bono volunteers with students to draft evidentiary declarations for clean slate petitions. Prepared expungement and felony reduction petitions for over 1500 convictions.
$281,834 spent80% of program spendingContinued working toward auto-population of petitions statewide and improved clean slate logic flow working toward the goal of creating a statewide shareable platform in 2025
$71,958 spent20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $353,792.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $6k to $11k (+71%).
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.
100% of THE ACCESS PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Chief executive
Nora Cregan
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $33k → $40k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 THE ACCESS PROJECT INC’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
THE ACCESS PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 THE ACCESS PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 76% · 2023 51% — 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
64% of THE ACCESS PROJECT INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE ACCESS PROJECT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE ACCESS PROJECT INC
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ACCESS PROJECT INC: 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 THE ACCESS PROJECT INC?
- THE ACCESS PROJECT INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,353 to it, the largest being LAW ROCKS INC ($60,803). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ACCESS PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $218,353 in grants to THE ACCESS PROJECT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ACCESS PROJECT INC?
- LAW ROCKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,803 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ACCESS PROJECT INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 6 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