Community Lawyers Inc

Analysis

Community Lawyers Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Compton, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Community Lawyers Inc reported income of $159k and spending of $192k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $213k to $159k (-25%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Community Lawyers Inc sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 51st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Harbors Edge Foundation Inc ($159k), Nasp Foundation Inc ($159k) and Manalive-Sacramento Inc ($159k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% and program service revenue 6.2% of the total. At year end it held assets of $115k against liabilities of $82k, net assets of $33k.