2026-06-16T14:17:22-05:00 2025-09-30 954557617 Harrington Group CPAs LLP 2698 Mataro Street Pasadena CA 91107 990 2024-10-01 942800442 California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation CALI 9164467904 2210 K Street 201 Sacramento CA 95816 Amagda Perez Executive Director 9164467904 2026-06-16 1 1 Jason K Stelling EA P02456446 6264036801 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Amagda Perez 2210 K Street 201 Sacramento CA 95816 7000575 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 59 87 0 0 14397887 6315710 297751 189727 259804 393115 419634 102023 15375076 7000575 8994528 1396480 0 0 4366993 3688869 0 0 237195 1104012 886517 14465533 5971866 909543 1028709 14921921 11963841 6416094 2444496 8505827 9519345 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 1889636 1261651 CRLAF's Immigration Project: Collective work is organized across three different project areas: Affirmative Legal Services, Removal Defense, and San Joaquin Immigrant Empowerment. The 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. 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 Immigration Project also provided technical assistance to other community partners addressing two major challenges facing immigrant communities: the quickly-changing federal administration's enforcement priorities and updates to case processing, and to the impacts on undocumented workers' rights and remedies due to their immigration status. We additionally provide regular immigration legal services to survivors of crime at a women's center in San Joaquin County. 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. Finally, in FY25, in furtherance of its role as a statewide support center, and in line with its strong history as an incubator for new projects that expand capacity and resources to support our client communities, CRLAF incubated and spun off part of its immigration unit as an independent 501(c)(3) organization to provide expanded direct immigration legal services in the Sacramento Valley. CRLAF provided $500,000 in startup funds and subgranted additional funds to ensure continuity of services for clients being served by the spin off. 708969 134829 Sustainable Rural Communities (SRCP): CRLAF's Sustainable Rural Communities Project works to ensure equal access to healthcare for California's farmworker and rural indigent population through a three-part strategy of health data development, analysis and dissemination; public policy analysis and discussion; and community outreach, education, capacity building, and advocacy. This project addresses the systemic causes of our communities' poverty, poor health, and degraded environments due to lack of regulatory enforcement and generational disinvestment. We coordinate with other advocates on a local, regional, and statewide strategy to craft large-scale solutions around healthcare for all, environmental justice issues (land use, unmet transit needs, water quality), foster more accountable and inclusive governance, and direct financial resources to rural, farmworker, migrant, immigrant, and disadvantaged communities. Safe Drinking Water: Since 2015, our team has administered an Interim Emergency Bottled Water program to the two unincorporated farmworker communities in western Fresno County with over 700 residents. CRLAF continues to advocate with Cantua Creek and El Porvenir residents for clean, safe drinking water access, while simultaneously working with California's Water Resources Control Board to ensure the communities' uninterrupted bottled water delivery until a permanent solution is reached. Statewide Drought Project: In 2022, CRLAF was selected to lead a statewide three-year drought resilience project to identify and develop an innovative and collaborative policy platform and to conduct efforts centering farmworker communities economic opportunities and access to water and other resources in California's ongoing drought. As a result of this three-year collaborative work, we were able to leverage funding for community education and infrastructure projects for the San Joaquin Valley, Inland Empire, and California's Central Coast. We also provided advocacy for the state's climate bond to benefit these regions.Farmworker Health Study: CRLAF led a budget request to update a 20-year old study of farmworker health data that CRLAF had initiated and advocated for UC Merced Community and Labor Center to undertake. We gained final approval in the state budget for a 3-year study in the amount of $1.5 million. The study was published by UC Merced in 2023. The data has been used to inform policy and demonstrate the severe inequities that rural farmworkers and their families face. This study and our on-the-ground work with affected communities has been instrumental in strengthening our argument for stronger health and safety protections for all rural client communities. We continue to use this report for advocacy and improving access to health care coverage for rural immigrants.Health4All: Over the past couple of years, CRLAF has provided critical support and advocacy alongside various other coalitions and organizations to defend the two recent Medi-Cal expansions, first for undocumented elderly aged 50 and above, then for young adults aged 19-26, as federal cuts and resulting state cuts will further negatively impact farmworkers and reverse progress on eliminating the uninsured and underinsured healthcare access gaps. These actions will exacerbate already disparate health care access for thousands of California residents. 799485 Legal Services Support: (State Trust Funding): CRLAF's primary purpose is to serve as a statewide support center. CRLAF advocates 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. 1609316 189727 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. 1609316 189727 5007406 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 34 0 1 59 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 Sec/Treas to Bd member (12/24) 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Manual Magana Board Member (end 12/24) 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 Maria Zamora Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Amagda Perez Executive Director 30.00 X 128123 0 4745 Veronica Melendez Director 37.50 X 135980 0 13850 Juanita Ontiveros HR Director 37.50 X 118168 0 44362 Noe Paramo Project Director 37.50 X 115154 0 24261 Mark Schacht Deputy Director 37.50 X 174313 0 26001 Daniel Gutierrez Accountant 37.50 X 117629 0 18772 789367 0 131991 8 0 1 0 0 6189590 126120 6315710 Attorney fees 541100 189727 189727 189727 393115 393115 Cy Pres 900099 86123 86123 Miscellaneous 900099 15900 15900 102023 7000575 189727 0 495138 1261651 1261651 134829 134829 130719 112418 14379 3922 2825560 2271827 404893 148840 19459 15789 2242 1428 469535 384698 53704 31133 243596 199601 27860 16135 60097 17563 42534 29500 29500 115957 115957 163526 133860 18571 11095 59799 49579 5639 4581 160026 136709 16860 6457 101513 81729 11937 7847 13653 7035 5278 1340 14292 14292 44781 36625 6392 1764 Dues, subs. & fees 65944 46789 16557 2598 Bank service fees 27388 121 27267 Annual event 23461 23461 Assistance expenses 5899 5899 681 626 55 5971866 5007406 727265 237195 781800 1345298 2040333 2909262 5939943 1242224 3334 10072 385654 346437 61013 39217 5911423 6380360 184075 37408 14921921 11963841 3471174 354356 2695482 2005917 61579 47582 187859 36641 6416094 2444496 X 4934664 5437541 3571163 4081804 8505827 9519345 14921921 11963841 X 1028709 -4630 -10561 X 0 1 X 1 0 X 4667356 7012686 7457333 14397887 6315710 39850972 4667356 7012686 7457333 14397887 6315710 39850972 4544847 35306125 20644 13051 141169 259804 393115 827783 49110 6257 1895 419634 102023 578919 41257674 41473 0.85570 0.83680 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 124050 0 0 124050 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 61579 61579 1 X 100000 4600 4600 100000 100000 5680 5680 100000 100000 245 245 100000 100000 245 245 100000 100000 245 245 100000 1.00000 0 0 385654 346437 39217 39217 Lease liabilities - operating leases 36641 36641 X 8380361 -4630 1394977 -10561 1379786 7000575 0 7000575 7366843 1394977 1394977 5971866 0 5971866 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. Part XI, Line 2d - Other Adjustments: Fixed asset transfer -10,561. 1 California Immigration Project 1722 J Street Suite 300 Sacramento CA 95811 934711414 501(c)(3) 1238905 0 Ensure continuity of affirmative immigration legal services , removal defense representation and informational and family preparedness services. 1 0 Drought relief 3209 134829 FMV Water bottles for drought relief 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 174313 0 0 0 0 0 5493 0 20508 0 200314 0 0 0 Juanita Ontiveros HR Director 118168 0 0 0 0 0 4023 0 40339 0 162530 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 Form 990, Part XI, line 9: Transfer of fixed asset -10,561.