California · Nonprofit
THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,778,062 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION ($1,575,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $8.5M
What The Justice and Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco does
Mission
The justice & diversity center (jdc) advances fairness and equality by providing pro bono legal services to low-income people and educational opportunities that foster diversity in the legal profession.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Pro bono legal services program (pbls): pbls provides free legal and social services to low-income individuals and families in the areas of eviction defense, family law, domestic violence, tax law, and federal employment discrimination and civil rights matters. Also, nonprofit organizations serving low-income communities receive business law services. Jdc's volunteer recruitment, training, and retention program operates through pbls at jdc's office in downtown san francisco. Clients are the working poor, families, people with disabilities, and seniors who are served via volunteer attorneys, jdc staff attorneys, or at jdc's court-based programs. As a result of pbls' services, clients retain their housing, gain custody of their children, receive access to justice, and achieve greater stability.within this program also resides the homeless advocacy project (hap), which provides free legal and supporting social services to low-income individuals and families in the areas of eviction defense, public benefits advocacy, and immigration documentation. Clients are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness, and approximately 75% have a mental health disability and/or physical disability.…
$5,189,087 spentof which $3,500 as grants68% of program spendingCooperative restraining order clinic (croc): is a san francisco-based legal services agency that upholds the legal rights and dignity of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking survivors. Committed to empowerment, croc works to protect the rights and safety of survivors and their children through effective legal assistance, institutional training, and policy advocacy.
$1,300,899 spent17% of program spendingImmigrant legal defense programs (ildp): ildp provides direct and volunteer legal services to immigrants and their families vulnerable to deportation. Jdc acts as the legal lead for the san francisco immigrant legal defense collaborative (sfildc). Through the collaborative, jdc helps coordinate the representation of over 1,400 individuals across the collaborative's 15 partner organizations. Ildp also houses the attorney of the day program (aod) for the san francisco immigration court. When acting as attorney of the day, jdc attorneys, along with our panel of over 100 volunteer attorneys, provide limited scope representation at the immigration court for individuals who appear at their hearing without representation. In 2020, ildp launched its attorney of the day hotline, providing remote legal consultations and wrap around services to any unrepresented individual appearing before the san francisco immigration court. As a result of these services, immigrants, their families, advocates, and other stakeholders have access to the legal resources they need to prevent immigrant detentions and deportations.
$908,504 spent12% of program spendingDiversity educational programs: diversity in the legal profession is an integral part of our mission. Our education programs help students succeed and explore their interest in a career in the law. From high school to law school, our programs break down barriers, build confidence, and shows that the legal profession is for everyone. The programs transform student's lives through mentoring by our volunteers and the generous support from our legal community that make field trips, prep courses, and a career in law possible.
$196,035 spentof which $85,000 as grants$280 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,594,525.
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 2022 to 2023, from $8.3M to $10M (+26%).
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 49% · 2018 42% · 2019 45% · 2020 70% · 2021 22% · 2022 84% · 2023 42% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (79% 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.
Chief executive
Yolanda Jackson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 10 funders, grant income rose $436k → $1.6M.
14 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $703k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Bar Association of San Francisco). These are real filings, and they are not money THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO raised.
From the IRS filings of THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
62% 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 JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 36% · 2019 40% · 2020 52% · 2021 26% · 2022 27% · 2023 87% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
92% of THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 55 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 55 public safety & disaster nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.1M on record.
- Department of Justice$2.7M
- Department of the Treasury$1.4M
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 THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Bar Association of San Francisco · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO?
- THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,778,062 to it, the largest being THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION ($1,575,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $6,778,062 in grants to THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO?
- THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,575,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO 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 38 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