Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$3,812,310

Total expenses

$3,928,643

Contributions and grants received

$3,662,379

Grants paid

$114,000

Program service revenue

$138,557

Investment income

$20,994

Other revenue

-$9,620

Total assets, end of year

$3,587,922

Total liabilities, end of year

$2,000,698

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,587,224

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$3,601,444

Management and general expenses

$261,533

Fundraising expenses

$65,666

Program service expenses (Part III)

$3,601,444

Program services were 91.7% 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.

Mission and programs · 2022

• HOME - The organization helps families and individuals avoid homelessness by providing legal services to prevent unlawful evictions and negotiations with landlords. A full range of legal services are available including preparation of pleadings, in court representation and settlement negotiations. The organization provided services to 913 clients through this program during the year. Volunteer law students donated approximately 276 hours of service and volunteer legal case workers donated 385 hours during the year.

  Expenses $1,706,020 · Grants $114,000

• DISASTER RELIEF - The organization provides legal assistance to families and individuals affected by the 2017, 2019, and 2020 wildfires, and through our ARPA funded small Business Equity and Recovery Program to Small business Owners who were negatively impacted by Covid-19 restrictions on business operations. The organization provided services to 19 clients in-house and to hundreds of others at community education workshops and local assistance centers. Volunteer Attorneys donated approximately 305 hours of service, volunteer law students donated approximately 334 hours of service during the year.

  Expenses $495,394

• SAFE - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICESThe organization helps adult and elder victims and children of domestic violence and civil harassment by providing legal advice and protective orders which help keep them safe and sheltered. Assistance includes legal forms preparation, counsel and advice, court representation, and referrals to other legal and non-legal resources in the community. SAFE services are also available through our attorney and one caseworker who assist clients off-site at the Sonoma County Family Justice Center. The organization provided services to 453 clients through this program during the year.Volunteer law students donated approximately 124 hours of service during the year.

  Expenses $504,236

• ELDER - The organization provides legal assistance to adults, age 60 and over, including mobile legal services for older adults who are isolated and live in rural parts of the County. The Elder program was established in 2015 to ensure legal access to these more vulnerable individuals. Services include housing, elder abuse, simple estate planning, bankruptcy, and a range of other legal issues. The organization provided services to 453 clients through this program during the year.Volunteer law students donated approximately 124 hours of service to the program during the yearEPH - EMPLOYMENT AND HEALTH PROGRAMS - The organization provides assistance with legal impediments to employment and health and to low-income individuals who have been referred by the County of Sonoma Department of Health Services. The organization provided services to 191 clients through this program during the year. Volunteer paralegals donated approximately 162 hours of service during the year.VETERANS - The organization helps veterans modify discharge status and access financial and medical benefits. This organization provided services to 83 clients through this program during the year.Volunteer Attorneys donated approximately 85 hours of service; volunteer law students donated approximately 28 hours of service during the year.CAPP - CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAM - The organization provides legal services to individuals who want to care for and protect abandoned and/or abused children by obtaining legal guardianship of those children and to clients who are referred by County of Sonoma Child Protective Services for legal assistance with family law and other legal issues impacting abused or neglected children. Legal assistance includes help with legal pleadings, notice procedures, and information, and advice. The organization provided services to 14 clients through this program during the year. REACH - The organization provides legal services to low-income and Spanish speaking individuals living in Sonoma Valley. The organization provided services to 22 clients through this program during the year. IMMIGRATION - The organization provides legal services to undocumented minor survivors of abuse or neglect to assist with obtaining Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS). This new program began at the very end of Q4 2022, and the organization had not yet begun assisting individual clients as of 12/31/22.

  Expenses $895,794 · Revenue $138,557

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. 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

• Legal Aid of Marin (LAM)

  $40,000

  Community Redevelopment

• Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California (FHANC)

  $30,000

  Community Redevelopment

• North Bay Organizing Project (NBOP)

  $30,000

  Community Redevelopment

• Bay Area Organizing Committee (BAOC)

  $14,000

  Community Redevelopment

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

17 October 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202302919349300130

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