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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.

Totals

Total revenue
$12,167,074
Total expenses
$19,118,675
Contributions and grants received
$11,054,564
Grants paid
$618,000
Program service revenue
$482,794
Investment income
$629,716
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$46,431,592
Total liabilities, end of year
$3,452,556
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$42,979,036
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$14,748,459
Management and general expenses
$2,313,275
Fundraising expenses
$2,056,941
Program service expenses (Part III)
$14,748,459

Program services were 77.1% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $5,262,757

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $5,791,807

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $1,443,759

  • 2a · Program service revenue: LEGAL AWARDS

    total $449,253 · related or exempt $449,253

  • 2b · Program service revenue: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $33,541 · related or exempt $33,541

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $675,232 · excluded $675,232

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

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    other assets $45,516

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    other assets -$45,516

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total -$45,516 · related or exempt -$45,516

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $618,000 · program services $618,000

  • 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 $477,002 · program services $210,584 · management and general $240,095 · fundraising $26,323

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $11,208,435 · program services $8,628,808 · management and general $1,213,753 · fundraising $1,365,874

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $812,467 · program services $614,587 · management and general $101,083 · fundraising $96,797

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $1,524,628 · program services $1,272,976 · management and general $66,107 · fundraising $185,545

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $852,309 · program services $644,725 · management and general $106,040 · fundraising $101,544

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $22,600 · management and general $22,600

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $12 · program services $12

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $0

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $341,283 · program services $295,343 · management and general $30,627 · fundraising $15,313

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $0

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $0

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $485,538 · program services $434,903 · management and general $37,976 · fundraising $12,659

  • 17 · Travel

    total $275,223 · program services $237,598 · management and general $23,948 · fundraising $13,677

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $248,828 · program services $129,314 · management and general $64,827 · fundraising $54,687

  • 20 · Interest

    total $23,087 · program services $18,469 · management and general $2,309 · fundraising $2,309

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $483,846 · program services $387,077 · management and general $72,577 · fundraising $24,192

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $177,939 · program services $111,284 · management and general $62,109 · fundraising $4,546

  • 24a · Other expenses: OUTSIDE SERVICES

    total $832,201 · program services $593,327 · management and general $157,395 · fundraising $81,479

  • 24b · Other expenses: ADMINSTRATIVE EXPENSES

    total $396,165 · program services $291,204 · management and general $43,246 · fundraising $61,715

  • 24c · Other expenses: TELECOMMUNICATIONS

    total $281,445 · program services $212,224 · management and general $59,125 · fundraising $10,096

  • 24d · Other expenses: SPONSORSHIPS

    total $35,321 · program services $35,321

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $22,346 · program services $12,703 · management and general $9,458 · fundraising $185

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $4,773,833 · end of year $1,742,015

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $6,225,629 · end of year $3,331,921

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $245,828 · end of year $51,152

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $514,213 · end of year $807,526

  • 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

    beginning of year $757,642 · end of year $770,938

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $276,239 · end of year $286,278

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $12,656,337

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $5,890,883

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $7,281,046 · end of year $6,765,454

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $16,695,498 · end of year $19,804,223

  • 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 $12,644,494 · end of year $12,872,085

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $1,771,229 · end of year $1,957,037

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $4,835

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $1,149,575 · end of year $1,495,519

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $39,632,711 · end of year $35,918,439

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $6,856,072 · end of year $7,060,597

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (ACLU NC FOUNDATION) DEFENDS AND ADVANCES THE PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOM, EQUALITY AND JUSTICE CONTAINED IN THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. ACLU NC FOUNDATION, A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION DESCRIBED IN SECTION 501(C)(3), CONDUCTSLITIGATION, POLICY RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY, PUBLIC EDUCATION, AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZINGIN ORDER TO PROTECT AND DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, INC. (ACLU NC FOUNDATION) CONDUCTS LITIGATION,POLICY RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY, PUBLIC EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN ORDER TO PROTECT AND DEFEND CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS.

  • DEDICATED LEGAL & POLICY PROGRAMS-THE ACLU NC FOUNDATION MAINTAINS SIX DEDICATED LEGAL AND POLICY PROGRAMS THAT CONDUCT LITIGATION, RESEARCH, POLICY ANALYSIS, PUBLIC EDUCATION, COALITION-BUILDING, AND POLICY ADVOCACY TO ADVANCE POSITIVE CHANGE ON KEY ISSUES. THE SIX PROGRAMS INCLUDE: 1) CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM, INCLUDING POLICING, 2) DEMOCRACY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, INCLUDING VOTING RIGHTS, 3) GENDER, SEXUALITY AND REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, 4) IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS, 5) RACIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE, INCLUDING HOUSING, EDUCATION EQUITY AND INDIGENOUS JUSTICE, AND 6) TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES.

    Expenses $14,748,459 · Grants $618,000 · Revenue $482,794

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Abdi Soltani

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $357,582
    From this org
    $258,740
    From related orgs
    $64,685
    Other
    $34,157
    Hours/week
    32 + 8 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $257,636 + $64,409 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $1,104 + $276 related
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,326 + $6,831 related
    Filer's total
    $286,066 + $71,516 related

  • Phyllida Burlingame

    LEGAL-POLICY DIR.

    Total calculated
    $298,795
    From this org
    $209,924
    From related orgs
    $23,325
    Other
    $65,546
    Hours/week
    36 + 4 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $207,782 + $23,087 related
    Bonus
    $900 + $100 related
    Other
    $1,242 + $138 related
    Deferred
    $11,402 + $1,267 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $47,589 + $5,288 related
    Filer's total
    $268,915 + $29,880 related

  • Duc Le

    COO

    Total calculated
    $291,327
    From this org
    $205,428
    From related orgs
    $51,357
    Other
    $34,542
    Hours/week
    32 + 8 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $203,524 + $50,881 related
    Bonus
    $800 + $200 related
    Other
    $1,104 + $276 related
    Deferred
    $11,294 + $2,824 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,339 + $4,085 related
    Filer's total
    $233,061 + $58,266 related

  • Elise Traynum

    GENERAL COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $291,310
    From this org
    $204,697
    From related orgs
    $51,174
    Other
    $35,439
    Hours/week
    32 + 8 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $202,793 + $50,698 related
    Bonus
    $800 + $200 related
    Other
    $1,104 + $276 related
    Deferred
    $6,027 + $1,507 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,324 + $5,581 related
    Filer's total
    $233,048 + $58,262 related

  • Shilpi Agarwal

    LEGAL-POLICY DIR.

    Total calculated
    $285,209
    From this org
    $214,147
    From related orgs
    $23,794
    Other
    $47,268
    Hours/week
    36 + 4 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $212,005 + $23,556 related
    Bonus
    $900 + $100 related
    Other
    $1,242 + $138 related
    Deferred
    $11,647 + $1,294 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,894 + $3,433 related
    Filer's total
    $256,688 + $28,521 related

  • Dorothy Stell

    DEVELOPMENT DIR

    Total calculated
    $247,489
    From this org
    $190,072
    From related orgs
    $21,119
    Other
    $36,298
    Hours/week
    36 + 4 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $187,930 + $20,881 related
    Bonus
    $900 + $100 related
    Other
    $1,242 + $138 related
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $32,668 + $3,630 related
    Filer's total
    $222,740 + $24,749 related

  • Candice Francis

    COMMUNICATIONS DIR

    Total calculated
    $230,776
    From this org
    $136,156
    From related orgs
    $67,061
    Other
    $27,559
    Hours/week
    27 + 13 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $134,561 + $66,276 related
    Bonus
    $670 + $330 related
    Other
    $925 + $455 related
    Deferred
    $5,554 + $2,735 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,911 + $6,359 related
    Filer's total
    $154,621 + $76,155 related

  • Adam Bailey

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Ajay Krishnan

    Legal Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Maria Hekker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dan Geiger

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 3 related

  • China Brotsky

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marina Hsieh

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Sukaina Hussain

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Al Hammond

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Graham Drake

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Betsy Buchalter Adler

    Audit Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Kasson Stone

    Dev Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Beverly Tucker

    Personnel Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Meg Durbin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anthonay Wan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Beth Von Emster

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erica Fernandez Zamora

    Policy Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Christopher Argyos

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daniel Galindo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jalle Dafa

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jim Lawrence

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Katelynn Bishop

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Veronica Diaz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Robert White

    Director

    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 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 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

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
5 February 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202500369349301225

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