Neighborhood Legal Services
Glendale, CA · EIN 95-2408642. Reported 89 grants totalling $20.4M to 25 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 25 distinct organizations, with 42% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 95% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $25,750 and $180,717; the smallest was $1,249 and the largest $2,311,989. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $8,600,033 | 10 | 4 | 2024 |
| Inner City Law Center | Los Angeles, CA | $3,359,650 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Public Counsel | Los Angeles, CA | $2,788,882 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mental Health Advocacy Services Inc | Glendale, CA | $1,667,821 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Legal Aid Socal | Santa Ana, CA | $700,131 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bet Tzedek | Los Angeles, CA | $642,404 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Maternal and Child Health Access | Los Angeles, CA | $465,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Northeast Valley Health Corporation | San Fernando, CA | $220,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Johns Community Health | Los Angeles, CA | $220,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Venice Family Clinic | Venice, CA | $210,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights | Los Angeles, CA | $203,333 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Asian Resources Inc | Sacramento, CA | $185,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hunger Action Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $177,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Vision Y Compromiso | Los Angeles, CA | $170,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Southern California Education Fund | Burbank, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Western Center on Law and Poverty | Los Angeles, CA | $119,795 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alliance for Community Empowerment | Canoga Park, CA | $118,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Health Law Program Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $116,069 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Legal Aid Society of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $72,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County | Los Angeles, CA | $57,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Legal Aid Society of San Bernardino | Sn Bernrdno, CA | $49,855 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pacoima Beautiful | Pacoima, CA | $42,608 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| El Nido Family Centers | Los Angeles, CA | $25,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central American Resource Center - Carecen - of California | Los Angeles, CA | $15,736 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Accelerate Change Inc | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
20 of 25 (80%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Legal services provider through sub-grants - Inner City Law Center
Subcontractor on Shriver Housing Project-LA joint advocacy efforts and strategy to provide legal assistance to eligible low-income parties in civil cases and increase access to justice for unrepresented parties. - Mental Health Advocacy Services Inc
Subcontractor on the Medical Legal Services Whole Person Care grant to provide assistance to participants in the following area of legal expertise: housing-related matters, immigration matters, general law-enforcement related matters, benefits advocacy, conservatorship, educational services and consumer law matters. - Legal Aid Society of Orange County -- Community Legal Services
Subcontractor on Self Help Legal Access Center Grant to operate a center in the Superior Courthouse in Compton. - Maternal and Child Health Access
Client legal assistance through sub-grant - Asian Resources Inc
Subcontractor to the California Community Foundation (CCF) grant for the implementation of the Los Angeles Linking Immigrants and Individuals to Benefits, Resources and Education Collaborative (LA LIBRE) to seamlessly link individuals and families to benefit enrollment assistance, legal services and other resources within a closed-loop referral network, to maximize benefit enrollment and retention, and helping to lift people out of poverty.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 25 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 21 | $4,712,600 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 26 | $5,176,068 | $100,000 |
| 2023 | 20 | $4,943,673 | $46,668 |
| 2024 | 22 | $5,555,226 | $28,143 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
100% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Neighborhood Legal Services's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 22 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1102 E Chevy Chase Drive, Glendale, CA, 91205.
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