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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE.

Totals

Total revenue
$14,173,392
Total expenses
$9,519,089
Contributions and grants received
$13,928,146
Grants paid
$139,430
Program service revenue
$86,576
Investment income
$119,874
Other revenue
$38,796
Total assets, end of year
$8,321,532
Total liabilities, end of year
$437,942
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$7,883,590
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$8,355,447
Management and general expenses
$977,343
Fundraising expenses
$186,299
Program service expenses (Part III)
$8,355,447

Program services were 87.8% 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.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $4,887,343

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $9,040,803

  • 2a · Program service revenue: LEGAL FEE

    total $86,576 · related or exempt $86,576

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $119,874 · related or exempt $119,874

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

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE

    total $38,796 · related or exempt $38,796

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $38,796

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $139,430 · program services $139,430

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $1,673,962 · program services $1,317,916 · management and general $227,227 · fundraising $128,819

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $5,214,135 · program services $4,713,874 · management and general $486,561 · fundraising $13,700

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $279,253 · program services $242,430 · management and general $35,667 · fundraising $1,156

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $590,451 · program services $518,188 · management and general $69,253 · fundraising $3,010

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $506,058 · program services $436,172 · management and general $60,979 · fundraising $8,907

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $152,469 · program services $145,889 · management and general $6,580

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $26,043 · management and general $26,043

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $309,215 · program services $263,641 · management and general $21,905 · fundraising $23,669

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $56,918 · program services $50,077 · management and general $6,108 · fundraising $733

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $54,179 · program services $47,619 · management and general $6,148 · fundraising $412

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $38,293 · program services $33,005 · management and general $4,614 · fundraising $674

  • 17 · Travel

    total $134,361 · program services $123,322 · management and general $7,844 · fundraising $3,195

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $31,275 · program services $26,950 · management and general $3,774 · fundraising $551

  • 24a · Other expenses: LEGAL FILING FEES

    total $126,214 · program services $126,214

  • 24b · Other expenses: TELEPHONE

    total $79,303 · program services $67,818 · management and general $10,103 · fundraising $1,382

  • 24c · Other expenses: DUES AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

    total $62,126 · program services $61,133 · management and general $973 · fundraising $20

  • 24d · Other expenses: Postage and Shipping

    total $38,634 · program services $37,945 · management and general $644 · fundraising $45

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $6,770 · program services $3,824 · management and general $2,920 · fundraising $26

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $1,426,928 · end of year $662,956

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $3,628,640

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $2,289,650 · end of year $3,913,686

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $71,067 · end of year $81,742

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    end of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $62,469 · end of year $34,508

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $339,683 · end of year $407,443

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $281,144 · end of year $30,499

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $2,472,837 · end of year $3,188,986

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $756,450 · end of year $4,694,604

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE'S MISSION IS TO PROMOTE JUSTICE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO UNDERSERVED IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES.

  • ILDs Educational-Legal Partnerships in California focus on providing free, high-quality immigration legal services to our states students from kindergarten through higher education. By partnering with school systems, including nine California State University (CSU) campuses, thirty-four California Community College campuses, the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), West Contra Costa County Unified School District and partnerships with schools in Sonoma County ILD is able to address the urgent, gaping immigration legal needs of youth, immigrant families, unaccompanied minors and asylum seekers. Through these partnerships, we are building a sustainable and replicable service delivery model that connects our clients with the legal, educational, social and mental health services necessary to enable clients to focus on their studies and to create real and lasting change in their lives. In 2025, ILD continued our CSU Immigration Services Project, our free legal services and education delivery project in collaboration with the CA Department of Social Services (CDSS) and 9 campuses of the CA State University (CSU) system: San Francisco, San Jose, East Bay, Maritime, Stanislaus, Fresno, Bakersfield, Monterey, and San Luis Obispo as well as 34 California Community Colleges (CCC) that are located in the most remote regions of CA. In 2025, ILD attorneys provided 2, 434 individual consultations to students, faculty/staff, and family members. Through our higher educational partnership projects, ILD accepted for full-scope representation 1, 800 new cases for full scope representation in relief that includes DACA, asylum, U visa, T visa, SIJS, VAWA, removal defense, family petitions, adjustment of status petitions based on various grounds, and naturalization. In 2025, ILD conducted over 150 virtual presentations attended by over 10, 000 individuals throughout the CSUs and CCC systems, including large presentations, small campus student group events, faculty/staff, or student government meetings, all held virtually by Zoom, Facebook Live, Instagram Stories, and system-wide webinars; participated in dozens of meetings with campus student-leaders and faculty/staff for in-depth discussions on requested immigration law and policy topics. In 2025, ILD also continued our partnerships with TK-12 unified school districts in Oakland, West Contra Costa County and in Sonoma County. ILD attorneys represent over 1000 families, young adults and children in their court proceedings in seeking asylum, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, and U or T visa relief as victims of violent crime or human trafficking. In 2025, ILD attorneys represented 70 detained individuals in their full proceedings, which have in several cases also included habeas petitions relating to prolonged detention and conditions violations and also has included representation before the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. We also represent dozens of Franco class members as National Qualified Representative Program appointed counsel. In 2025, ILD continued our role as mentoring attorneys for 10 fellows in the California Immigrant Justice Fellowship and aims to expand the number of immigration attorneys at Central Valley and Central Coast nonprofits serving immigrants in removal proceedings. We also assist with fellowship program administration and training for all of the fellows. ILD continues to serve as lead attorney for Northern California, the Central and Central Coast for organizations who receive removal defense funding through CDSS. In this role, ILD attorneys serve as the Jurisdictional Capacity Building Organization for all of the CDSS removal defense grantees - we provide intensive mentoring for all attorneys at any organizations that received removal defense funding. In addition to daily one on one office hours, we provide case management assistance, brief and other legal filing review and also conduct training on all immigration court procedural and removal defense substantive topics. As of July 2025, ILD has also served as the Legal Services Support Coordinator for CDSSs recently launched Regional Network Hubs for Immigrant Families Project (RNH). RNH brings together non profit immigration legal services organizations across California by organizing the state into 11 centralized hubs through which immigration services, rapid response and educational rights for community members can be coordinated.

    Expenses $8,355,447 · Grants $139,430

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis

    CO-EXEC DIR

    Total calculated
    $233,402
    From this org
    $190,846
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,556
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $179,146
    Bonus
    $11,700
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $34,556
    Filer's total
    $233,402

  • Siobhan M Waldron

    MANAGING ATTORNEY

    Total calculated
    $229,866
    From this org
    $190,696
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,170
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $179,146
    Bonus
    $11,550
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $31,170
    Filer's total
    $229,866

  • Kaitlin G Kalna Darwal

    MANAGING ATTORNEY

    Total calculated
    $219,602
    From this org
    $189,738
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,864
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $178,188
    Bonus
    $11,550
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,864
    Filer's total
    $219,602

  • Ilyce S Shugall

    MANAGING ATTORNEY

    Total calculated
    $205,123
    From this org
    $184,108
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,015
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $174,508
    Bonus
    $9,600
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,015
    Filer's total
    $205,123

  • Katie Annand

    MANAGING ATTORNEY

    Total calculated
    $201,653
    From this org
    $183,874
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,779
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $176,974
    Bonus
    $6,900
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,779
    Filer's total
    $201,653

  • Jean K Yamasaki

    MANAGING ATTORNEY

    Total calculated
    $198,534
    From this org
    $188,758
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,776
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $177,208
    Bonus
    $11,550
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,776
    Filer's total
    $198,534

  • Barbara C Pinto

    CO-EXEC DIR

    Total calculated
    $198,293
    From this org
    $190,156
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,137
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $178,456
    Bonus
    $11,700
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $137
    Filer's total
    $198,293

  • Rachel Katz

    FINANCE DTR

    Total calculated
    $161,459
    From this org
    $143,053
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,406
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,553
    Bonus
    $1,500
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $6,333
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,073
    Filer's total
    $161,459

  • Margot Mendelson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah J Diaz

    BOARD PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Talia Inlender

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Written employment contract
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
13 March 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.0
Source object
202620729349300522

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