LEGAL AID ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

1832 2ND ST SUITE105

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• LAAC Core Programs: During FY2425, LAAC provided many meetings and online trainings for the legal services community, including the third annual California Legal Aid Executive Director Retreat. LAAC also provided summer fellowships for law students through LAACs Dan Bradley Fellowship program. LAAC undertook several advocacy efforts to protect funding for civil legal services in California's state budget, including a successful campaign to fund civil legal aid in the Governor's Special Session. LAAC also supported a statewide resource and referral website at www.LawHelpCA.org. LAAC staff trained front-line helpers across the state on using LawHelpCA.org to help people in crisis access legal resources. Staff also recruited volunteer law students to help site users find the information they needed, as people in legal crisis often want a real person (not a bot) to help them.

  Expenses $1,039,498 · Grants $16,000 · Revenue $94,686

• Legal Services Funders Network: In 2022, LAAC became the fiscal sponsor of LSFN. LSFN is comprised of many types of foundations, law firms, law schools, individuals, government staff, and bar associations. For some, funding legal services is a primary focus. For others, funding legal services is a strategy used to help amplify the impact of grants in specific focus areas. Network members provide support to a range of organizations, including community-based direct legal services providers, those involved with public policy, advocacy and impact litigation, and those that provide infrastructure support to the legal aid field. LAACs fiscal sponsorship of LSFN involves processing fellowship stipends for LSFNs robust post-graduate fellowship program, placing law school graduates in legal aid organizations prior to their passing the California Bar Exam.

  Expenses $338,073 · Grants $295,000 · Revenue $12,818

• Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN): In January 2023, LAAC became the temporary fiscal sponsor of the Self Represented Litigation Network. SRLN is a collaborative project of court staff, academics, judges, and other stakeholders dedicated to making the justice system more accessible to people who are self-represented in court. In 2025, SRLN's major projects transitioned to Stanford Law School, but LAAC continued to perform transition-related services this fiscal year.

  Expenses $125,550

• California Access to Justice Commission (CalATJ): During FY2425, the Legal Aid Association of California continued the partnership with the California Access to Justice Commission (CalATJ). CalATJ is a separate, independent nonprofit made up of lawyers, judges, academics, and other stakeholders dedicated to making the civil justice system accessible to all. CalATJ is a small organization without its own staff, so they contract with LAAC through an MOU for staffing needs. For more information on CalATJ and our partnership, please visit www.CalATJ.org.

  Expenses $19,938 · Revenue $56,399

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

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,791,886

  Expenses

  $1,801,447

  Contributions

  $1,609,493

  Grants paid

  $311,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,644,600

  Expenses

  $1,566,417

  Contributions

  $1,532,722

  Grants paid

  $387,000

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,738,228

  Expenses

  $1,644,079

  Contributions

  $1,647,657

  Grants paid

  $366,572

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,448,047

  Expenses

  $1,334,344

  Assets (EOY)

  $637,661

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,098,182

  Expenses

  $985,100

  Assets (EOY)

  $448,469

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $949,041

  Expenses

  $898,526

  Assets (EOY)

  $408,926

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $640,119

  Expenses

  $680,173

  Assets (EOY)

  $261,852

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $519,816

  Expenses

  $489,147

  Assets (EOY)

  $282,116

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $457,184

  Expenses

  $440,556

  Assets (EOY)

  $246,087

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $416,145

  Expenses

  $393,011

  Assets (EOY)

  $236,731

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $414,122

  Expenses

  $409,195

  Assets (EOY)

  $211,804

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $200,710

  Expenses

  $205,063

  Assets (EOY)

  $205,523

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $132,390

  Assets (EOY)

  $191,577

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $273,500

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $227,000

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $178,000

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NEW VENTURE FUND

  $95,423

  2023 · CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION, ADVOCACY

• NEW VENTURE FUND

  $50,000

  2022 · CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION, ADVOCACY

• GREATER HORIZONS

  $40,000

  2024 · Human Services

• AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION INC

  $35,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• PETER E HAAS JR FAMILY FUND

  $20,000

  2024 · SUPPORT THE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

• PETER E HAAS JR FAMILY FUND

  $19,500

  2022 · LSFN FELLOW IN SONOMA COUNTY

• PETER E HAAS JR FAMILY FUND

  $19,500

  2023 · LSFN FELLOW IN SONOMA AND GENERAL OPERATIONS

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

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