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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING.

Totals

Total revenue
$415,878
Total expenses
$472,405
Contributions and grants received
$422,404
Grants paid
$50,318
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$6,946
Other revenue
-$13,472
Total assets, end of year
$625,303
Total liabilities, end of year
$13,404
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$611,899
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$438,037
Management and general expenses
$27,860
Fundraising expenses
$6,508
Program service expenses (Part III)
$438,037

Program services were 92.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $0

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $47,894

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $0

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $307,355

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $67,155

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $6,946 · related or exempt $6,946 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $47,894

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $13,472

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$13,472 · unrelated business $0 · excluded -$13,472

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $18,500 · program services $18,500

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $17,241 · program services $17,241

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $14,577 · program services $14,577

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $84,076 · program services $59,614 · management and general $24,462

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $110,560 · program services $110,500 · management and general $60

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $40,456 · program services $40,456

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $15,490 · program services $14,712 · management and general $778

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $15,690 · program services $13,540 · management and general $2,150

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $99,677 · program services $96,693 · management and general $154 · fundraising $2,830

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $30,606 · program services $28,516 · management and general $70 · fundraising $2,020

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $680 · program services $680

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $10,800 · program services $10,800

  • 17 · Travel

    total $6,945 · program services $6,231 · fundraising $714

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $1,155 · program services $615 · fundraising $540

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $280 · program services $280

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $4,082 · program services $4,082

  • 24a · Other expenses: Taxes and Licenses

    total $143 · program services $5 · management and general $138 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Bank and processing fees

    total $1,447 · program services $995 · management and general $48 · fundraising $404

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $332,997 · end of year $263,833

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $5,739

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $13,912 · end of year $30,530

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    beginning of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    beginning of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $7,450 · end of year $6,475

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $271,921 · end of year $318,726

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $22,425 · end of year $13,404

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $0

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $0

  • 20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities

    beginning of year $0

  • 21 · Escrow or custodial account liability

    beginning of year $0

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $0

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $0

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $364,397 · end of year $314,452

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $239,458 · end of year $297,447

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

LELO strives to empower low-income workers of color, recent immigrants and women workers to assert their rights, improve their working conditions and gain a voice in their workplaces, trade unions and communities, in the U.S. and across the globe.

  • King County Relicensing Program: LELO offers free service to assist low-income drivers with license suspended in Third Degree (DWLS3D) and who are interested in recover their driver's license. The program accepts any low income person who has unpaid tickets in King County District Court. The DWLS3D help individuals to navigate the court system, educate them on their rights and advocate for themselves. LELO assisted clients' appeals in both the Washington State and out of the state courts and received very affordable payment outcomes. In 2024, the Relicensing Program enrolled 84 clients and 27 regained their driver's licenses.

    Expenses $177,268 · Grants $1,429 · Revenue $111,862

  • The Western Sahara Project organized four educational sessions about the realities faced by the population in Western Sahara. Each session focused on explaining, from different perspectives, how Morocco's occupation of Sahrawi territory has affected their human, civil, cultural, and environmental rights. The speakers at these discussions included diplomats, university professors, organizers, and members of our community. Also, the Project produced a digital publication with the latest information on the situation in Western Sahara. Additionally, by social media sent updates on the ongoing struggle of the Sahrawi people.

    Expenses $77,530 · Revenue $46,561

  • APALA: Collaboration with The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO; APALA is the first and only national organization of Asian American and Pacific Islanders (APPI), most of who are union members. APALA works with LELO as a partner to advance workers, immigrant and civil rights. APALA and LELO have played a unique role addressing the work place issues of their 660,000 union members and serving as a bridge between organized labor and the APPI community. The collaboration between APALA and LELO is dedicated to promoting political education, empowerment and leadership of AAPIs within labor movement and APA community. LELO assisted APALA in organizing six educational sessions by Zoom and a National Conference in Seattle.

    Expenses $75,500 · Revenue $89,740

  • General Programs, City Food Equity, City Pre-filing, History Project, Mexico Solidarity, Bantayog, and other programs: LELO's Food Equity Program (FEP) has been successfully planned, funded, and implemented a grassroots effort to provide our multi-racial community with organic vegetables and fruits, methods to prepare healthy foods, knowledge of how to take care of our health and education on why food sovereignty is as an alternative to the food system that we currently have. The Food Equity Program distributed 75 boxes of organic produce and fruit every week from June to September, 2024. Also, every other week we have educational sessions to talk about important issues related to our food and the importance of taking care of our environment. We worked to organize our communities to ensure that our people have access to healthy food. Pre-filing Diversion Program. This program provides a service-based alternative to criminal charges for people who have been ticketed by Seattle Police Department for Driving with a License Suspended 3 (DWLS 3). In 2024 the Pre-filing Diversion Program enrolled 32 clients and 4 regained their driver's license.

    Expenses $107,739 · Grants $371 · Revenue $193,098

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Ricardo Ortega

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $84,075
    From this org
    $84,075
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Cindy Domingo

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Romy Garcia

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Edwin Batangbocal

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Araceli Hernandez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Judith Vazquez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
14 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.0
Source object
202523219349300712

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