Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$302,501

Total expenses

$371,894

Contributions and grants received

$302,100

Grants paid

$290,000

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$401

Total assets, end of year

$767,233

Total liabilities, end of year

$420

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$766,813

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$325,454

Management and general expenses

$46,440

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$325,454

Program services were 87.5% 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.

Mission and programs · 2023

• In 2023, the PICO California network embarked on a statewide campaign to address the states massive and growing housing affordability and homelessness crisis. Our broad, consistent, and powerful organizing ensured that state representatives heard our voices loud and clear about the urgent need to protect renters and prevent homelessness. As a result, we helped to pass three pieces of legislation streamlining the state approval process for affordable housing development on faith institution and school land, protecting low-wage renters against no-fault evictions and closing common eviction loopholes, and making it unlawful for landlords to use nuisance ordinances to discriminate against renters.In March, our first of two leadership assemblies united leaders from across the network to uplift vulnerable communities and affirm our organizing agenda based upon the urgency of housing justice. And thus, the Home Is Sacred campaign was born. Our network selected three bills that affect different areas of the housing market: ?SB4: Streamlining the process for affordable housing to be built on faith and educational institution lands?SB567: Protecting millions of tenants from unjust evictions and closing loopholes exploited by corporate landlords?AB1418: Making it unlawful for landlords to use nuisance ordinances to discriminate against tenants With our legislative champions and co-sponsors, we held a press conference in March for the launch of the Homelessness Prevention Act (SB567), our cornerstone bill.In April, 672 leaders, organizers, and clergy from 19 counties descended upon the State Capitol to demand an end to unjust evictions, skyrocketing rents, and corporate influence over the states housing policies.We met with 43 state legislators and gave powerful public testimonies on the Capitol doorsteps. Our team drove thousands of calls and emails to state legislators and contacted thousands of voters through phone banking with our partners at the Million Voters Project.In April and May, we overcame the first major hurdles in our fight. Despite relentless opposition from powerful corporate interests, our organizing efforts and public actions from San Francisco to Pasadena pushed our Home Is Sacred bills past their respective committees and onto the floors of the Senate and Assembly, where they would later pass.Our Home is Sacred Summer was an inspiring season of organizing as thousands of grassroots leaders rallied for housing justice across California through community actions, research meetings with legislators, and sharing their stories at legislative committee meetings.Our message echoed in the news, social media, and the halls of the Capitol. Legislators heard our voices and felt our collective power as we called on them to cut off the pipelines to homelessness and keep our families housed. San Jose - Dozens of PACT SJ leaders from across Santa Clara county gathered to share how the housing crisis has affected them and their loved ones.San Diego - More than 200 leaders and clergy from the San Diego Organizing Project dove into our Home is Sacred campaign with Assemblymember David Alvarez.Oakland - Our siblings from Faith in Action East Bay convened with a shared purpose, rooted in faith and driven by the urgent need to advocate for housing for all.Sacramento - Nearly 200 grassroots leaders from Sacramento Area Congregations Together reflected on urgent housing needs and expressed power with their elected officials.Central Valley - The stories and experiences of our siblings from Faith in the Valley echoed the struggles and pain of our siblings across California.Northern California - Faith leaders of True North Organizing Network in Humboldt and Del Norte counties drove calls to Assemblymember Jim Wood urging him to take action on the states housing and homelessness crisis.Silicon Valley - Dozens of leaders in Faith in Action Bay Area met with council members in Redwood City to demand that the city establish harassment protections and a right to stay ordinance that protects renters after renovations.Inland Empire - Grassroots leaders from across Riverside and San Bernardino counties representing Inland Congregations United for Change drove calls to state legislators to demand greater protections against unjust evictions.Los Angeles - LA Voice held a weeklong Preaching and Teaching series for Home Is Sacred with dozens of congregations in their community.In late September and early October, Gov. Newsom signed our three Home Is Sacred policy priorities into law. After months of organizing with clergy, grassroots leaders, organizers, and communicators, and thousands of faith-based, justice-oriented Californians meeting with legislators, marching in processions, making calls, sending emails, flooding social media, writing op-eds, and holding vigils and prayers, our bills made it across the finish line. We estimate that our Home Is Sacred policy priorities passed into law will benefit over two million Californians by closing common eviction loopholes, increasing the supply of affordable housing, and preventing evictions due to nuisance ordinances.

  Expenses $325,454 · Grants $290,000

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

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

• Affordable Redwood City 2024

  $150,000

  affordable housing support

• Faith in Action Bay Area

  $140,000

  Field Support

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

7 November 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

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