2025-05-12T17:39:05-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 271276653 HISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT HISP 9702404115 PO Box 2024 Montrose CO 81402 Ricardo Perez Executive Director 9704176127 2025-05-15 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Ricardo Perez 504 N 1st Street Montrose CO 81401 713603 0 X www.hapgj.org X 2009 CO Promoting immigrant integration by providing outreach/education, direct services and opportunities for leadership development of the Hispanic communities in Western Colorado. HAP assists families with immigration legal representation, community resources and activities to create a sense of belonging among newcomers. 7 7 8 125 0 0 867101 607407 22508 11312 14848 40584 -114069 49063 790388 708366 50100 9159 0 0 366597 352075 0 0 11400 112342 84536 529039 445770 261349 262596 2362799 2625395 0 0 2362799 2625395 Promoting leadership development, community outreach and providing key services for immigrant integration in western Colorado 0 0 111500 0 11312 Immigration legal assistance program: Contracting a paralegal who obtained the DOJ accreditation; meanwhile, providing assistance to former and new clients. Provided information and referrals to 349 individuals and represented clients as follows: citizenship by naturalization- 26; Deferred Actions for Child Arrivals (DACA)- 17; Green card petitions/renewals- 9, all together with other applications related to consular documents, certificates, remove conditions on residence and affidavit of support- 9. Provided legal consultations and screening to 29 families. Conducted outreach and education of fraud prevention related to immigration legal access in rural communities, and collaborated with public libraries on educative clinics, as with the state court and USCIS office to organize the monthly naturalization ceremonies. Through informative sessions and social media tools reached out over 2,100 families in western Colorado. 176225 0 0 Resources to the community: Aided 378 low income families with assistance including information related to labor rights, housing, medical services, driver licenses and connecting them with other local, regional non-profits and governmental entities. Site visit to 112 ranch and farm workers including those with H2A visas to share information about labor matters. Facilitated the Aging Mastery Program for Spanish speaking older adults and coordinated 12 educative session to prevent domestic violence and sexual assaults issues impacting mainly Spanish speaking women. Organized 10 community events in Montrose and Mesa county, as facilitating the base group "Inmigrantes Unidos de Gunnison" (IUG). More than 550 people participated in our activities. HAP dedicated staff capacity to support over 26 asylum seekers in many needs including transportation for their immigration court hearings. HAP provided assistance to 17 workers applying for the Benefit Recovery Fund (BRF) under the direction of the CDLE/unemployment benefit program, and made extensive media education about this program in CO. 90268 10058 0 Partnership and collaboration: participated in 6 local/regional committees to advance immigrant integration and coordinated with other non-profit agencies and governmental entities looking to reach out their constituencies. The Gunnison Immigrant Integration Plan was finalized in collaboration with the city of Gunnison and 500 families are reported as impacted directly for this collaboration. A new partnership with the Recreational District of the city of Montrose was initiated to increase the engagement of immigrant families to understand pertinent use of local resources, such as the access to the public land, reaching 110 families. 0 0 0 377993 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 CO X Teryl Gable 9707298278 504 N 1st Street Montrose CO 81401 Ricardo Perez Executive Director 40 0 X X 81995 0 0 Joel Flores Board President 1 0 X 0 0 0 Carla Hernandez Treasurer 1 0 X 0 0 0 Marcos Irigoyen Secretary 1 0 X 0 0 0 James Perez Board Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Jose Pacheco Board Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Patricia Voorhis Board Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 81995 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1067 0 0 606340 0 607407 Immigration Legal Assistance 813319 11312 11312 0 0 0 0 0 0 11312 40584 0 0 40584 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 54300 0 5237 0 49063 0 49063 0 0 49063 0 0 0 0 0 1067 0 0 0 708366 11312 0 89647 0 0 9159 9159 0 0 0 0 79568 59676 11935 7957 0 0 0 0 185973 180394 5579 0 4917 4425 492 0 58268 52441 4079 1748 23349 21015 1634 700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4668 2334 2334 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13292 13292 0 0 1531 0 536 995 22125 2922 19203 0 2179 0 2179 0 0 0 0 0 3499 70 3429 0 3414 3277 137 0 0 0 0 0 8672 8672 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8920 8563 357 0 CLINIC Registration/Licenses 1800 0 1800 0 Immigration Integration 4510 4059 451 0 Gunnison Partnership 6764 4532 2232 0 HT-WSAT Operation 3162 3162 0 0 0 0 0 0 445770 377993 56377 11400 1445533 1250628 151826 163210 1211557 0 765440 1211557 2362799 2625395 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 1731000 2110302 631799 515093 2362799 2625395 2362799 2625395 262596 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 706798 667404 445698 841059 615173 3276132 22717 29110 19473 22508 11312 105120 5609 0 5609 729515 696514 470780 863567 626485 3386861 3386861 1196 497 720 14848 40584 57845 1196 497 720 14848 40584 57845 730711 697011 471500 878415 667069 3444706 0.98321 0.99431 0.01679 0.00569 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 0 765440 0 0 765440 446117 0 0 446117 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1211557 Schedule D, Part I, Line 1 A building was purchased in 2022 to serve as a permanent home for the Hispanic Affairs Project. 1 Western Colorado Immigrant Relief Fund - to provide assistance with the essential needs of the western Colorado immigrant families. 14 10058 0 Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 Hispanic Affairs Project maintains a file of all grant recipients and their use of the funds. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b A copy of this 990 form was submitted to all BOD members. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The governing body and personnel are required to fill out a compliance form, which includes reporting potential conflicts of interest. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 Compensation for the Executive Director and the salary budget is approved by the BOD in the annual budget for the next fiscal year. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The organization submits documents to Community First Bank (ColoradoGives.Day) on an annual basis, which in turn makes them available to the public for review. All financial information is available on request.