Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$17,850,229

Total expenses

$13,590,488

Contributions and grants received

$16,792,494

Grants paid

$1,440,540

Program service revenue

$43,684

Investment income

$1,006,574

Other revenue

$7,477

Total assets, end of year

$37,414,640

Total liabilities, end of year

$3,070,614

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$34,344,026

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$11,977,347

Management and general expenses

$875,280

Fundraising expenses

$737,861

Program service expenses (Part III)

$11,977,347

Program services were 88.1% 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

• Immigration Rights: Asian Law Caucus is committed to an immigration system that keeps families together and does not determine a person's value by their immigration status or whether they have been incarcerated. Recognizing that incarceration, immigration detention and deportation separates families, we focus on legal services on the most vulnerable in the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community - immigrants facing deportation due to criminal convictions. The hundreds of clients we serve each year enable us to quickly identify emerging problem areas and to respond effectively through impact litigation, community education, and advocacy.

  Expenses $1,061,244 · Grants $69,660

• Workers Rights: The Asian Law Caucus has a long history of fighting on behalf of low-income immigrant workers. Our Workers' Rights program provides legal counseling, policy advocacy, direct services, and impact litigation for low-income immigrant workers on a wide range of workplace issues, including race and national origin discrimination, retaliation, wage and hour problems, unemployment insurance benefit appeals, and workplace safety. We also regularly partner with worker centers to support workplace organizing, worker-led campaigns, and the development of immigrant worker leaders. Over the last several years we have also successfully brought cases to win millions of dollars of unpaid wages for low-wage workers in strategic partnership with state and local labor enforcement agencies and community partners.

  Expenses $721,659 · Grants $105,000

• National Security and Civil Rights: Our programs also pursue the promise of democracy for all, no matter where people are from, what language they speak, or how they pray. Through our National Security & Civil Rights program we protect the civil rights of individuals and communities unjustly impacted by overbroad national security policies, especially Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (AMEMSA) communities. We strive to confront the day-to-day breaches of civil rights to impact the larger social and institutional dynamics that prevent the realization of equal rights, challenge the unjust surveillance of AMEMSA communities in the U.S. and assist families facing discrimination, passport revocation, denaturalization, and other tactics in the name of national security.

  Expenses $1,194,913 · Grants $268,307

• Voting Rights: Asian Law Caucus' Voting Rights program works to expand access to the democratic process for AAPI, AMEMSA, and other immigrant communities, limited-English speaking Californians, and all those who have been historically disenfranchised. In March 2024, in partnership with California Common Cause, ALC conducted the largest nonpartisan poll monitoring program in California. We then released a joint report based on our poll monitoring and advocated for local improvements to election systems. Since 2022, we co-led a statewide language access workgroup that released a report and roadmap to improve the voting experience for voters who need translated election materials. In the 2022-2024 state legislative processes, we co-sponsored three state legislative bills focused on improving the language access laws, the local redistricting process, and the process when local jurisdictions adopt district elections.National VR (July 2023 - December 2023): The Affiliation Voting Rights Strategy sought to empower AAPIs by increasing capacities for voting rights advocacy and civic engagement in AAPI communities across the country, including in geographic areas where AAPI populations are emerging as a potent force in our democracy. Our work included litigation, legal research and policy advocacy; demographic research, data analysis and mapping; training and consultation on voting rights and election administration issues. In 2021 and 2022, we worked with each of our affiliates and groups in GA, IL, MI, MN, NM, NC, TX, PA and VA to address fair redistricting, election law compliance, voter education and access to voting, and related issues affecting local communities. Asian American Leaders Table: Since 2020, Asian Law Caucus has convened AAPI community leaders from over 70 organizations to participate in the Asian American Leaders Table. Together, we are developing strategies to address the root causes of interpersonal and systemic racism, and to provide our partners with resources and tools to help their communities-both for rapid response to violence and for longer-term interventions to achieve safety and well-being for our communities. Value Our Families: We engaged immigrant rights advocates and experts across the country in discussion seeking to reimagine what the US legal immigration system could be designed to support family immigration and respond to the country's economic needs. National Democracy Initiative: The National Democracy Initiative (NDI) supports partner organizations across the country to strengthen local efforts to build power and engage in advocacy to achieve policy change and other social justice objectives to meet the needs of AAPI AMEMSA communities. The NDI provides support and resources, including advice and consultation, technical and policy expertise, strategic analysis, data and research, subgrants and in-kind support to help partners advance strategic campaigns and efforts in their communities. The NDI also serves as a braintrust for movement partners, and harnesses the expertise and capacities of ALC's programs, built over decades of community lawyering experience, to share strategies, tactics, knowledge with emerging AAPI AMEMSA organizations that seek to organize for power in their communities and advocate for progressive social change.State Power Building: Since 2022, the Asian Law Caucus has worked in coalition with our partners at Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders for Civic Empowerment Education Fund (AAPI FORCE-EF), Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), and Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) to develop priorities for fortifying and expanding community infrastructure in California and collectively build long term power for low-income and underserved Asian Americans. In 2023, we co-led a series of interviews with AAPI community leaders and worked to develop an initial framework for a longer term plan for a statewide network of power building organizations to advance economic equity, immigrant justice, and create an inclusive democracy. Community Safety: Asian Law Caucus' Community Safety Program aims to ensure AAPI community safety by building preventative, restorative, and community-based alternatives to our ineffective criminal legal system. In particular, we seek to disentangle state and local government agencies from immigration enforcement and to reimagine AAPI community safety. Our work includes community education, legal representation, and policy advocacy on behalf of low-income immigrants and communities of color. In 2023-24, CSP continued our community education and advocacy work to end ICE transfers and ICE collaboration in California, launched our new Legal Clinic for Victims and Survivors of Violence, and provided subgrants to multiple community partners to build restorative justice infrastructure that can support Bay Area AAPI communities.Housing Rights: Asian Law Caucus' Housing Rights program advocates on behalf of low-income residents in the areas of housing and community development. We focus primarily on serving low-income communities of color and gateway communities for new immigrants. We have a long-standing focus on San Francisco and San Francisco Chinatown, where large numbers of tenants and seniors are in danger of displacement due to gentrification and other economic pressures. Informed by our direct legal services, we advocate for local and state policies that protect tenants, preserve housing, create affordable housing options, and decrease inequities in housing and land use.Other programs include Litigation, Communications, and Affiliate works.

  Expenses $8,999,531 · Grants $997,573 · Revenue $43,684

As filed on the 2023 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. 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

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

• Chinese for Affirmative Action

  $261,858

  CDSS API Capacity Project pursuant to Grant

• Jubilee Immigration Advocates

  $211,858

  CDSS API Capacity Project pursuant to Grant

• The Fresno Center

  $211,858

  CDSS API Capacity Project pursuant to Grant

• Restore Oakland Inc

  $142,515

  CDSS Transformative grant

• New York Taxi Workers Alliance

  $105,000

  James Irvine Foundation subgrant

• Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice

  $100,000

  CDSS transformative grant

• Chinese Progressive Association

  $80,000

  State Power Building AAPI FORCE-EF

• Dolores Street Community Service

  $69,660

  MOH Mental Health Grant.

• National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc

  $60,000

  Affiliation anti-Asian hate funding pool subgrant to Woori juntos c/o NKASEC

• Every Voice Texas

  $30,000

  NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Grant

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

14 May 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

202511349349312181

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