2025-07-17T13:07:59-05:00 2024-09-30 954557617 Harrington Group CPAs LLP 2698 Mataro Street Pasadena CA 91107 990 2023-10-01 942800442 California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation CALI 9164467904 2210 K Street 201 Sacramento CA 95816 Amagda Perez Executive Director 9164467904 2025-07-17 1 1 Carlos A Davis CPA P02037008 6264036801 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Amagda Perez 2210 K Street 201 Sacramento CA 95816 15375076 0 X www.crlaf.org X 1981 CA CRLAF works for social justice and equity for farmworkers and the underserved in rural California through outreach, community education, legislative and administrative advocacy, class action litigation, and direct representation. In 2021, we strengthened laws and policies protecting workers' rights and health; worked to reduce agricultural work hazards and pesticide exposures faced by farmworkers and rural residents; helped keep immigrant families together; improved access to higher education; helped Californians living in rural communities secure, clean and reliable drinking water; and prevented homelessness due to the pandemic. 8 8 58 62 0 0 7457333 14397887 104836 297751 141169 259804 1895 419634 7705233 15375076 1498189 8994528 0 0 3830338 4366993 0 0 280234 2045344 1104012 7373871 14465533 331362 909543 9571491 14921921 1997575 6416094 7573916 8505827 X The mission of CRLAF is to achieve social justice and equity in partnership with farmworkers and the underserved in rural communities through community, legislative and legal advocacy. Our vision is for all farmworkers and their families to be treated with dignity and respect. CRLAF helps increase the capacity of rural immigrants to advocate for themselves, to develop leadership, and to become more engaged in their communities as stakeholders driving the agenda for improved economic and social conditions. We work in the areas of immigration and citizenship, labor, housing, education, community health, worker safety, and environmental justice. 0 0 9633189 507074 CRLAF's Citizenship and Immigration Unit's collective work is organized across four different project areas: Citizenship and Immigration, Removal Defense, San Joaquin Immigrant Empowerment, and the Sacramento FUEL Network. The Citizenship and Immigration Project provides community education, legal training to qualified legal services providers, assistance to eligible immigrants applying for affirmative immigration benefits, and representation before USCIS and the Executive Office for Immigration Review. The Removal Defense Project provides direct representation in detained and non-detained court cases and coordinates the Sacramento Immigration Court's Sacramento Attorney of the Day (AOD) Program. The AOD program provides training, technical assistance, and scheduling support to pro bono attorneys to increase their capacity to represent individuals who otherwise would lack representation in Immigration Court. The San Joaquin Immigrant Empowerment Project's work centers around the complex intersection of public health, immigrants' rights, and immigration law. During this fiscal year, we focused especially on providing immigration legal services, advocacy, education and outreach, and legal training. The Project also provided technical assistance to other community partners addressing two major challenges facing immigrant communities: the administration's public charge rule and the COVID-19 pandemic. The City Council of Sacramento established the Sacramento Family Unity, Education, and Legal (FUEL) Network for Immigrants in 2017, a robust collaborative of over eighty Sacramento community-based organizations, legal services providers, volunteer attorney groups, labor unions, faith-based groups, and educational institutions that are all actively working to provide critical services to immigrant communities. CRLAF has served as fiscal lead for the Network since its initiation.We additionally provided regular immigration legal services to survivors of crime at a women's center. Most of CRLAF's immigration cases in this region are humanitarian cases, such as U visa, T visa, or VAWA applications. From San Joaquin to near Fresno county, CRLAF is one of the only organizations currently taking these types of cases at no cost to the client, as most of the individuals we serve do not have the means to hire a private attorney, and there is a huge unmet need for attorneys to take on humanitarian aid cases pro bono in this region. CRLAF plans to continue building community capacity to support such work moving forward. 2393349 Pesticide and Work Health and Safety Project:This Project works to bring attention to and reduce agricultural work hazards and pesticide exposures faced by California's agricultural workers and other rural residents through public policy advocacy, training and technical assistance to legal services advocates. The project maintains an open dialogue with Cal-OSHA and local, state, and federal pesticide and regulatory labor officials to encourage more thorough investigations, stricter enforcement of, and improvements to existing laws and regulations, and increased use of safer and more sustainable pest control alternatives. We also provide technical assistance to legal services programs and community organizations to develop outreach materials, to ensure that current pesticide and work safety laws, regulations, and public records, and the pesticide incidents reporting process are fully understood. We collaborate with members of other non-profit organizations to educate policy makers, agency officials, and the public about pesticide exposure, heat stress, and other work and environmental health and safety hazards affecting California's rural poor. Labor and Employment Project:This Project monitors state and federal legislation of importance to farmworkers, acts as a watchdog over operation of the federal H-2A agricultural guest worker program in California, and takes positions in support of farmworker interest in state initiated regulatory actions offering greater opportunities and protection to this class, and opposition to legislation threatening such rights.Field Services:This Project provides legislative and administrative advocacy on labor and employment, education, rural housing, rural health, pesticides and worker safety, training, technical assistance to legal service advocates, and advocacy support to Qualified Legal Services Projects on issues affecting farmworker and other low-wage worker issues, as well as co-counseling on labor, employment, and civil rights matters.Rural Housing Project:This Project engages in legislative and administrative advocacy on low-income rural and farmworker housing issues, and conducts trainings on housing issues throughout the state through its participation on several coalitions and committees. Our team advocates at the local and statewide levels to establish adequate protections to support low-income renters facing habitability, overcrowding, and potential convictions. Labor and Civil Rights Litigation Project:This Project provides legal representation to low-income individuals and families in rural California. Litigation efforts focus on farmworkers and other low-wage workers ineligible for legal services from federally-funded legal aid programs, or whose interests are best represented in a class action. CRLAF targets employers and landlords responsible for deplorable working and housing conditions. Specific areas of focus include, but are not limited to, representing workers and tenants in cases involving: wage theft, violation of workplace safety standards, sexual assault and harassment, discrimination and retaliation, workplace housing habitability issues, unlawful detainers, and pesticide exposure. The team provides virtual and in-person Know Your Rights presentations on housing and employment topics, creates instructional materials on accessing critical safety-net supports, such as healthcare, food banks or benefits, and up-to-date information on workers and tenants' rights under California law. 703922 88399 Legal Services Support: (State Trust Funding): CRLAF's primary purpose is a statewide support center. CRLAF advocates to provide training, technical assistance, and advocacy support to qualified legal services projects to increase their capacity to represent low-wage workers and their families with labor and employment, health access, housing, public benefit, and disaster relief eligibility. CRLAF also engages in class action litigation, co-counseling, and direct representation of indigent clients who are ineligible for federally-funded legal services due to immigration status. 741066 297751 Legal Services Support:CRLAF is unique in that we primarily operate as a statewide legal support center, where we provide training, technical assistance, advocacy support, and resources to QLSPs and other partners across California. Key subjects include labor and employment, health advocacy, pesticide and worker safety, rural housing, and education advocacy. We provide education, consultations, and co-counseling, including advancing referrals from partners who are unable to represent undocumented individuals and mixed-status families. We are additionally involved in a couple of statewide projects working to prevent homelessness. Central Valley Partnership:The Central Valley Partnership is a project of CRLA Foundation that provides training, technical assistance, and advocacy support on immigration, health, and education equity. CRLAF received funds from the Paycheck Protection Program to support the organization's work due to the unprecedented effects of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Field Services:The Field Services Project provides legislative and administrative advocacy on labor and education, rural housing, rural health, pesticides and worker safety; training, technical assistance, and advocacy support to qualified legal services advocates on issues affecting farm worker and other low-wage worker issues; and co-counseling on labor, employment, and civil rights matters.Field Sanitation:Now called The Pesticide and Work Health and Safety Project works to shed light on and reduce agricultural work hazards and pesticide exposures faced by California's agricultural workers and other rural residents. The Project maintains an ongoing dialog with Cal-OSHA and local, state and federal pesticide regulatory officials to encourage more thorough investigations and stricter enforcement of existing laws and regulations, improvements in regulations, and increased use of safer and more sustainable pest control alternatives. We also provide technical assistance to legal services programs and community organizations on developing outreach materials, accessing and understanding pesticide and work safety laws and regulations and public records and responding to pesticide poisoning incidents. We collaborate with members of other non-profit organizations to educate policy makers, agency officials and the public about heat stress, pesticide exposure and other work and environmental health and safety hazards affecting California's farmworkers and other rural poor.CA Advocacy for Farm Workers:Project monitors state and federal legislation of importance to farm workers, acts as a watchdog over operation of the federal H-2A agricultural guest worker program in California, and takes positions in support of farm worker interests in important regulatory actions undertaken by state agencies that affect agriculture. Rural Housing Project:This project engages in legislative and administrative advocacy on low-income rural and farmworker housing issues, publishes a quarterly newsletter on state housing issues, and conducts training on housing issues throughout the state. In response to COVID-19, our housing policy team worked in the State Capitol and with the Judicial Council of California to halt evictions to keep families safe from homelessness. From the Governor's orders calling for an eviction moratorium to the Judicial Council's adoption of an emergency protection rule preventing summonses from being issued in nearly all "unlawful detainer" eviction cases, our housing policy efforts helped to halt a potential massive wave of evictions across California.Our team continues to advocate at local and statewide levels to establish adequate protections for renters facing potential pandemic-related evictions. We are also working to develop a legislative response that would provide longer-term protections from eviction for non-payment of rent due to COVID-related loss of income. 741066 297751 13471526 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 54 0 1 58 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 CA X X Daniel Gutierrez 9164467904 2210 K Street Suite 201 Sacramento CA 95816 Virginia Villegas Esq Board Chair 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Christina Brigagliano Esq Vice-President 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Jose Olivera Esq Secretary/Treasurer 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Ruben Chavez JD Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Manual Magana Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Richard Pearl Esq Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Jessica Stender Esq Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Ricardo Torrez Board member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Amagda Perez Executive Director 30.00 X 105744 0 13628 Veronica Melendez Director 37.50 X 117548 0 20297 Juanita Ontiveros HR Director 37.50 X 109478 0 38380 Noe Paramo Project Director 37.50 X 106062 0 28793 Mark Schacht Deputy Director 37.50 X 157333 0 33264 596165 0 134362 5 0 1 0 Pangea Legal Services 391 Sutter Street Suite 500 San Francisco CA 94108 Immigration services 754497 Jewish Family and Community Services Eas 2151 Salvio Street Suite 350 Concord CA 94520 Community outreach 648444 International Rescue Committee 440 Grand Avenue Suite 500 Oakland CA 94610 Community outreach 621787 US Dept Homeland Security 2707 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE Washington DC 20528 DACA filing fees 502180 4 12333297 2064590 14397887 Attorney fees 541100 297751 297751 297751 259804 259804 Cy Pres 900099 408071 408071 Miscellaneous 900099 11563 11563 419634 15375076 297751 0 679438 8399055 8399055 595473 595473 114428 106417 5722 2289 3336409 2813448 353028 169933 134503 113342 14286 6875 538318 454581 56562 27175 243335 205812 25356 12167 52634 52634 20500 20500 256786 207118 31677 17991 208819 179172 18809 10838 42155 35480 4394 2281 167971 140782 18122 9067 136773 115108 14252 7413 37339 31425 3890 2024 19845 19845 40144 16897 13942 9305 Dues, subs. & fees 54358 49335 2305 2718 Bank service fees 29342 12 29330 Annual event 28107 28107 Community donation 5250 5000 250 3989 3069 762 158 14465533 13471526 713773 280234 378561 781800 1825531 2040333 3869547 5939943 6225 3334 401293 340280 50306 61013 3192235 5911423 249086 184075 9571491 14921921 250540 3471174 1451281 2695482 43576 61579 252178 187859 1997575 6416094 X 3617837 4934664 3956079 3571163 7573916 8505827 9571491 14921921 909543 22368 0 X 0 1 X 1 1 1 X 4557930 4667356 7012686 7457333 14397887 38093192 4557930 4667356 7012686 7457333 14397887 38093192 5419051 32674141 42700 20644 13051 141169 259804 477368 49110 6257 1895 419634 476896 39047456 41473 0.83680 0.79320 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 96853 0 0 96853 0 Part II-B, Line 1: Sponsored, co-sponsored, supported or opposed a limited number of state bills affecting low wage rural workers, especially farm workers, in the areas of housing, employment, health and safety, civil rights, immigration and education. 0 1 X 100000 5680 5680 100000 100000 245 245 100000 100000 245 245 100000 100000 245 245 100000 100000 245 245 100000 1.00000 0 0 401293 340280 61013 61013 Lease liabilities - operating leases 187859 187859 X 15578664 22368 181220 203588 15375076 0 15375076 14646753 181220 181220 14465533 0 14465533 Part IV, Line 2b: The Foundation provides free legal representation to California's poor. In the scope of its mission, the organization collects and temporarily holds legal awards for litigants which are then disbursed accordingly. Part V, Line 4: The general purpose of the Endowment Fund is to provide a reserve, the interest and dividends from which may be expended to support the mission of the Foundation. Part X, Line 2: The Foundation is exempt from taxation under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) and California Revenue and Taxation Code Section 23701d. Generally accepted accounting principles provide accounting and disclosure guidance about positions taken by an organization in its tax returns that might be uncertain. Management has considered its tax positions and believes that all of the positions taken by the Foundation in their federal and state exempt organization tax returns are more likely than not to be sustained upon examination. The Foundation's returns are subject to examination by federal and state taxing authorities, generally for three and four years, respectively, after they are filed. 1 Afgan-American Community Organization 11735 Baird Avenue Northridge CA 91326 823792356 501(c)(3) 307007 0 Immigration legal services for Afghan nationals Afripeace & Development Foundation PO Box 293924 Sacramento CA 95829 943356584 501(c)(3) 14175 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members CAIR 3160 De la Cruz Boulevard Suite 110 Santa Clara CA 95054 770411194 501(c)(3) 1781351 0 Immigration legal services for Afghan nationals Center on Race Poverty & The Environment 5901 Christie Ave Suite 208 Emeryville CA 94608 050557231 501(c)(3) 125500 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members Central California Environmental Justice Work 4991 E McKinley Ave Suite 109 Fresno CA 93727 871795259 501(c)(3) 125500 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members Coalition For Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) 2533 W 3rd Street Suite 101 Los Angeles CA 90057 954421521 501(c)(3) 843450 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members Community Water Center 900 W Oak Ave Visalia CA 93291 800267674 501(c)(3) 125500 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members CRLA Inc 1430 Franklin St Suite 103 Oakland CA 94612 952428651 501(c)(3) 313913 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members El Concilio California 445 N San Joaquin Street Stockton CA 95202 941677202 501(c)(3) 28500 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members Hijas Del Campo 144 Continente Ave Suite 120 Brentwood CA 94513 863224204 501(c)(3) 95832 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members International Rescue Committee 440 Grand Avenue Suite 500 Oakland CA 94610 135660870 501(c)(3) 1986339 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members Jewish Family and Community Srevices East Bay 2151 Salvio Street Suite 350 Concord CA 94520 943250304 501(c)(3) 592725 0 Immigration legal services for Afghan nationals La Familia Counseling Center 5523 34th Street Sacramento CA 95820 942270786 501(c)(3) 44710 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability 2110 San Joaquin St Fresno CA 93721 461517800 501(c)(3) 125500 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members Mixteco Indigena Community Organization Project 200 West St Oxnard CA 93030 300045901 501(c)(3) 182500 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members Norcal Resist Foundation PO Box 188331 Sacramento CA 95818 831003248 501(c)(3) 12710 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members Opening Doors Inc 1111 Howe Ave Suite 125 Sacramento CA 95825 371417129 501(c)(3) 488429 0 Immigration legal services for Afghan nationals Pangea Legal ServicesProject ANAR 391 Sutter Street Suite 500 San Francisco CA 94108 364748424 501(c)(3) 926862 0 Immigration legal services for Afghan nationals Sacramento Area Congregations Together 5700 South Land Park Sacramento CA 95822 943146791 501(c)(3) 7300 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members Sacramento Food Bank and Family Legal Immigration Services 1951 Bell Ave Sacramento CA 95838 943315566 501(c)(3) 21260 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members TODEC Legal Center Perris PO Box 1733 Perris CA 92570 300711527 501(c)(3) 125500 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members University of the Pacific 3601 Pacific Ave Stockton CA 95211 941156266 501(c)(3) 70000 0 Immigration legal services for Afghan nationals West Modesto Collabortive 601 S Martin Luther King Drive Modesto CA 95351 311751288 501(c)(3) 31202 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members World Relief Sacramento 2233 Watt Ave Suite 110 Sacramento CA 95825 236393344 501(c)(3) 22810 0 Provide outreach and informational services to vulnerable community members 24 Drought relief 9432 88399 FMV Water bottles for drought relief Deferred action on childhood arrivals 961 507074 FMV Deferred action on childhood arrivals and immigration fees Part I, Line 2: The organization provides assistance on an "as needed" basis to the members of the community. X X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mark Schacht Deputy Director 157333 0 0 0 0 0 7508 0 25756 0 190597 0 0 0 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b Draft of form 990 is sent to CRLAF Executive Board Committee for review. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c As described in the organizations by-laws, "No Director, officer or employee of the Corporation shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract or other transaction with the Corporation, unless (i) the material facts regarding such Director's, Officer's or financial interest are fully disclosed in good faith and are noted in the Minutes, or are known to all members of the Board prior to consideration by the Board of such contract or transaction; (ii) such contract or transaction shall be authorized in good faith by a majority of the Board by a vote sufficient for the purpose without counting the vote or votes of such interested Director, Officer or employee; and (iii) prior to authorizing or approving the transaction the Board considers and in good faith determines after reasonable investigation under the circumstances that the Corporation could not obtain a more advantageous arrangement with reasonable effort under the circumstances." Conflicts of interest are evaluated before a board member is voted upon by the entire Board of Directors and as they may arise during the course of the board member's tenure. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 The CRLAF Board of Directors request salary information for management personnel from comparable organizations and uses the acquired data to determine the Executive Director salary. The CRLAF Board of Directors request salary information for management personnel from comparable organizations and uses the acquired data to determine management and staff salaries. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 Upon Request