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THE JOHN M LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES INC
THE JOHN M LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,000 to it, the largest being MUNGER TOLLES & OLSON FOUNDATION ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $265k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $246k
What The John M Langston Bar Association of Los Angeles Inc does
Mission
To provide charitable services and scholarships to preceptive students of law.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sixteen scholarships were awarded that ranged from $4,000 to $10,000.
$102,500 spent99% of program spendingDonations to various charities amounted to $1,411.
$1,411 spent1% of program spendingContinuing legal education four classes
Youth opportunity programs held at various schools which included gang prevention, college visits and other related activities for higher education.
Bar tutorial to help law students prepare for the Bar examination. Four attorneys assisting 50 law students.
Five attorneys staff a legal clinic providing pro bono legal services.
Sponsor the law institute for continuing legal education.
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $103,911.
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 2020 to 2021, from $76k to $307k (+305%).
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.
90% of THE JOHN M LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES INC’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. 3 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
2020 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $8k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 JOHN M LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES 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 JOHN M LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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
93% 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 JOHN M LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 85% · 2021 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
88% of THE JOHN M LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES 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. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 JOHN M LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES INC runs a healthier operating margin 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 JOHN M LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES 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
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 THE JOHN M LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES 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 JOHN M LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES INC?
- THE JOHN M LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,000 to it, the largest being MUNGER TOLLES & OLSON FOUNDATION ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE JOHN M LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $14,000 in grants to THE JOHN M LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES INC.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JOHN M LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES INC?
- MUNGER TOLLES & OLSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JOHN M LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES 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 2017–2024), 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