Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$7,168,423

Total expenses

$7,067,189

Contributions and grants received

$7,074,211

Grants paid

$6,448,321

Program service revenue

$50,000

Investment income

$39,037

Other revenue

$5,175

Total assets, end of year

$6,706,161

Total liabilities, end of year

$6,193,276

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$512,885

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$6,631,977

Management and general expenses

$432,138

Fundraising expenses

$3,074

Program service expenses (Part III)

$6,631,977

Program services were 93.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• With funding from the State Budget Act, our Infrastructure and Innovation grants strengthen legal aid nonprofits and start new forms of legal help for low-income Californians. Year 3 (one-year grants beginning April 2023) & Year 4 (one-year grants beginning April 2024) and Supplemental (one-year grants beginning May 2025) were each awarded $4,875,000 in four quarterly installments spanning the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, with 44, 49, and 43 grants respectively. The projects funded by the grants provided legal help to thousands of Californians. Reports on the grants are available at https://calatj.org/grants/legal-aid-infrastructure-innovation-grants.

  Expenses $6,148,407 · Grants $6,093,750

• Responding to the need highlighted by the Legal Aid Association of California and in our report about the crisis in legal aid recruitment and retention (https://calatj.org/publications/legal-aid-recruitment-retention-and-diversity), the Legislature in 2023 authorized legal aid programs to use Interest on Lawyers Trust Account and Equal Access Funds for a tax-advantaged Loan Repayment Assistance Program administered by CalATJ. CalATJ obtained its license from the Department of Financial Protection and innovation in mid-April, and began operations before June 30, 2024. As of June 30, 2025, fourteen contributing legal aid organizations had donated over $650,000 ($354,571 in the calendar year) and nominated 300 participants to receive distributions. As federal loan interest rates and monthly payments increase, LRAP programs are all the more important.

  Expenses $466,199 · Grants $354,571

• - We released a report about the current challenges California litigants face because too few court reporters are employed by trial courts.(https://calatj.org/publications/a2r ) One million Superior Court hearings a year are conducted without providing an official transcript. The report described the rights and interests at stake, the harms this causes, and options for addressing it. It has been widely quoted in submissions to the ongoing writ proceeding on the issue in the California Supreme Court, FVAP v. Superior Courts, S288176, and in submissions to the Legislature regarding a bill to allow greater use of electronic recording subject to conditions. - LRS/Nonprofit Collaborations Last year, CalATJ supported the proposed amendments to Business and Professions Code Section 6155. The amendments permit nonprofits to participate in lawyer referrals, under a new exception to the prohibition against an entity that is not a Certified Lawyer Referral Service (LRS) from making referrals to specific lawyers. CalATJ has provided the State Bar with a report that provides suggested regulations, as well as suggestions, and questions for further consideration on ways for LRSs to enhance access to justice for Californians through nonprofit collaborations, and we discussed enhancements that do not depend on such collaborations.- Approximately 15 other programmatic activities plus roughly 40 committee meetings. See https://calatj.org/news/read-the-california-access-to-justice-commissions-2024-annual-report

  Expenses $13,268 · Revenue $50,000

• With a grant from the California Lawyers Foundation, we have developed a project, Your Life, Your Plan, to connect individuals with serious health conditions referred by health care providers to County Law Librarians, and then to pro bono and affordable lawyers to locate and complete the following documents (as needed): Advance Health-care Directive, Psychiatric Advance Directive, Statutory Will, Simple Revocable Trust, Power of Attorney.

  Expenses $4,103

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

• CA Collab for Immigrant Just

  $350,000

  Program Support

• CLSEPA

  $186,250

  Program Support

• Immigration Inst of Bay Area

  $183,250

  Program Support

• Mixteco Indigena Com Org Prj

  $172,000

  Program Support

• Immigrant Legal Defense QBO

  $169,000

  Program Support

• Asian Americans Advancing Jus

  $159,500

  Program Support

• Latin Advoc Network-Latinan

  $158,500

  Program Support

• Legal Services for Children

  $157,500

  Program Support

• Immigration Project Inc

  $152,500

  Program Support

• Inland Counties Legal Srv Inc

  $151,000

  Program Support

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

19 December 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

202503539349301010

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