Bay Area Legal Aid

Analysis

Bay Area Legal Aid is a registered charity in United States, based in Oakland, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1966, 60 years ago. 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, Bay Area Legal Aid reported income of $29.2m and spending of $27.8m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $20.1m to $29.2m (+46%), an average of +9.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Bay Area Legal Aid sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Syracuse Community Health Center Inc ($29.2m), American Society of Clinical Pathologists ($29.3m) and The Door - a Center of Alternatives Inc ($29.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% and program service revenue 0.5% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $1.2m (4.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $14.9m. At year end it held assets of $23.9m against liabilities of $10.5m, net assets of $13.4m. It reported 201 employees.