Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$3,930,266

Total expenses

$3,314,752

Contributions and grants received

$3,309,880

Grants paid

$74,445

Program service revenue

$473,742

Investment income

$42,053

Other revenue

$104,591

Total assets, end of year

$4,488,423

Total liabilities, end of year

$868,799

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$3,619,624

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$2,851,797

Management and general expenses

$296,395

Fundraising expenses

$166,560

Program service expenses (Part III)

$2,851,797

Program services were 86.0% 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 · 2022

• Refugee and Immigrant Rights: The Advocates provides free legal representation to asylum seekers, unaccompanied children, trafficking victims, Afghan evacuees, and detained immigrants in the Upper Midwest. With pro bono assistance from hundreds of attorneys, The Advocates is the primary asylum legal service provider in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. During FY2023, The Advocates provided more than 2,000 people with legal help, including 750 Afghan evacuees through a newly established Afghan Legal Clinic. In addition, The Advocates provided approximately 800 people with pro se materials, information, and other resources to advance their immigration case. In addition to legal services, The Advocates collaborates on the Immigration Court Observer Project to engage hundreds of volunteers in monitoring immigration court hearings.

  Expenses $1,281,396

• Research, Education and Advocacy: Research, Education and Advocacy: The Advocates uses a human rights approach to document abuses, provide training and technical assistance to human rights defenders worldwide, engage people who have experienced human rights violations in advancing policy changes, and increase awareness of human rights. The Advocates is a leader in human rights advocacy at the local, national, and international level on our priority issues including death penalty abolition, violence against women and LGBTIQ+ persons, human trafficking, and the rights of noncitizens. The Advocates brings international human rights principles to the community and classrooms through curricular resources, lesson plans, and training manuals; presentations, lectures, conferences, continuing education courses, and public forums; and through two unique websites.

  Expenses $525,911

• Womens Human Rights: The Advocates has 30 years of experience working with partners in Minnesota and around the world to document problems in the government response to violence against women and responding to the needs of womens human rights defenders. The Advocates works to end violence against women by changing laws and their implementation, as well as through trainings, advocacy, and monitoring and documentation of human rights abuses against women and girls. Through the WATCH court monitoring project, we mobilize volunteers to observe cases of violence against women and children and bring the public eye into the courtroom. We work with partners to enhance protections for women and provide training and technical assistance for The Advocates global womens human rights partners. During FY2023, we undertook research on the anti-gender movement and published a report on the backlash to the Istanbul Convention; we also continue to (Continued on Schedule O)

  Expenses $473,645

• International Justice: The Advocates develops innovative, sustainable strategies to hold governments accountable for human rights abuses and to strengthen institutions in the international justice system. The Advocates engages our clients, diaspora communities, and international human rights partners in monitoring and documenting human rights conditions in countries around the world, and using local, regional, international, and transitional justice mechanisms to improve human rights worldwide. With the assistance of pro bono volunteers, in FY2023 The Advocates partnered with human rights defenders in more than 50 countries on 5 continents to build their capacity to engage in international advocacy to end gender-based violence , the use of the death penalty, and violence and discrimination based on race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and/or sex characteristics.

  Expenses $410,333

• Nepal School Project: Since 1999, The Advocates has partnered with the Sankhu-Palubari community in Nepal to provide the most at-risk children in the area with high-quality education as a genuine alternative to child labor and a pathway to academic success and economic opportunity. The Sanku-Palubari Community School currently provides an entirely free education, including textbooks, uniforms, and a daily meal, to 375 students enrolled in pre-K through grade 10. Fifty-three percent of the students are girls.

  Expenses $160,512

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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

• Volunteer Lawyers Network

  $74,445

  Legal Clinic Consortium Partner

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

9 November 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202323149349304927

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