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← THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS

Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS.

Totals

Total revenue
$13,418,770
Total expenses
$13,529,748
Contributions and grants received
$13,095,067
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$15,000
Investment income
$252,371
Other revenue
$56,332
Total assets, end of year
$13,264,645
Total liabilities, end of year
$2,891,828
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$10,372,817
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$10,570,252
Management and general expenses
$1,799,320
Fundraising expenses
$1,160,176
Program service expenses (Part III)
$10,570,252

Program services were 78.1% 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.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $64,253

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $8,156,581

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $4,874,233

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Program Income

    total $15,000 · related or exempt $15,000

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $239,196 · excluded $239,196

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $6,948,651

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

    securities $6,935,476

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $13,175

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $13,175 · excluded $13,175

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $2,343

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $64,253

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $2,343

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: Miscellaneous

    total $56,332 · excluded $56,332

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $56,332

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $198,725 · program services $49,681 · management and general $49,681 · fundraising $99,363

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $8,250,915 · program services $6,848,875 · management and general $793,935 · fundraising $608,105

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $366,794 · program services $317,267 · management and general $17,857 · fundraising $31,670

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $1,811,755 · program services $1,445,650 · management and general $213,313 · fundraising $152,792

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $662,062 · program services $544,255 · management and general $64,120 · fundraising $53,687

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $187,676 · program services $65,827 · management and general $121,849

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $52,438 · management and general $40,438 · fundraising $12,000

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $64,040 · management and general $64,040

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $41,669 · management and general $41,669

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $49,582 · program services $26,286 · management and general $2,550 · fundraising $20,746

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $232,955 · program services $118,723 · management and general $68,415 · fundraising $45,817

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $692,313 · program services $525,824 · management and general $132,051 · fundraising $34,438

  • 17 · Travel

    total $159,244 · program services $125,436 · management and general $33,053 · fundraising $755

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $127,264 · program services $84,965 · management and general $37,341 · fundraising $4,958

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $36,393 · management and general $36,393

  • 24a · Other expenses: PROGRAM EXPENSES

    total $211,473 · program services $211,473

  • 24b · Other expenses: EQUIPMENT & MAINTENANCE

    total $85,128 · program services $48,304 · management and general $33,290 · fundraising $3,534

  • 24c · Other expenses: TELEPHONE AND INTERNET

    total $75,660 · program services $62,922 · management and general $6,639 · fundraising $6,099

  • 24d · Other expenses: STAFF DEVELOPMENT

    total $54,017 · program services $45,120 · management and general $7,598 · fundraising $1,299

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $169,645 · program services $49,644 · management and general $35,088 · fundraising $84,913

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $531,814 · end of year $1,011,701

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $10,001,812 · end of year $8,974,929

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $709,519 · end of year $1,180,650

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $133 · end of year $766

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $212,318 · end of year $234,225

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $86,368 · end of year $1,862,374

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $822,788 · end of year $1,022,979

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $1,868,849

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $9,669,921 · end of year $8,883,267

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,049,255 · end of year $1,489,550

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

The Organization protects and advances the rights and best interests of immigrant children according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and state and federal law.The Organization is a champion for the bests interests of children who arrive in the United States on their own, from all corners of the world, and children who have been separated from their parents on arrival in the United States. We serve as trusted allies for these children while they are in deportation proceedings, advocating for their best interests, and standing for the creation of a dedicated children's immigrant justice system that ensures the safety and well-being of every child.The Organization's goal is to change the immigration system so that children in immigration proceedings are recognized as children, and best interests are made a part of the decision making process.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Protect and advance the rights and best interests of immigrant children.

  • Children's Rights Program -The Organization is appointed Child Advocate by the Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). The role of the Child Advocate is to advocate for the best interests of individual children and ensure that all decisions on behalf of an immigrant child take into consideration the child's best interests. The children served by the Organization are those considered most vulnerable, for example, children who have been abused, infants who are the subject of international custoday battles, children who have developmental disabilities, young girls who want to live with their traffickers, those who have lost their parents to violence, and more.While in ORR custody, these children are separated from their parents. They need an adult to advocate for their best interests, to advocate that they be reunified with their parents, to ensure they have legal representation, to advocate for their well-being, to ensure decision makers, including ORR, immigration judges, asylum officers and enforcement officials consider their best interests. After they are released, children are still in deportation proceedings and it is critical that the same decision makers receive fact-based information about their best interests from independent child advocates.Under our model, the Organization recruits and trains bilingual volunteers, such as teachers, retired attorneys, students, and other community members, to serve as child advocates. The volunteers meet with the children and learn their stories which often hold the key to figuring out whether they are eligible for protection. With this information, the Organization's attorneys and social workers then advocate on behalf of the children, submitting best interests recommendations to ORR, immigration judges, asylum officers, enforcement officials, shelter providers and lawyers for the children. The best interests reports detail the issues at stake and make specific recommendations about the child's safety and well-being. The Organization serves a key role in ensuring the safety and well-being of the most vulnerable unaccompanied children, both while they are in custody and after they are released.International Home Studies: Some children wish to return to their home countries, while others face removal against their wishes. In cases where children face repatriation, the Organization seeks to determine whether the child can be safely repatriated, as required by the Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008. In cases where there are concerns about a child's safety upon repatriation, the Organization will contract with a social worker, or a non-governmental organization, in the child's home country, to visit the child's home and conduct a home study to determine whether it would be safe for the child to return. The Organization uses these home studies for the Best Interests recommendations, which are then submitted to the federal immigration authorities, including the Department of Homeland Security, immigration judges and the Asylum Office.Through this work, the Organization works to ensure the safety and well-being of individual children who either choose to or are forced to repatriate. In addition, the Organization seeks reform more broadly in the immigration system by making the case that decision-makers should always request evidence of whether a child has a safe home to return to before ordering a child deported. These home studies cost approximately $1,000 per study and the Organization raises private funds for this work.

    Expenses $9,634,601 · Revenue $15,000

  • Policy Advocacy Work - The Organizations' goal is to change the immigration system so that children in immigration proceedings are recognized as children, and best interests is made a part of the decision making process.The Organization conducts policy advocacy at the national level - with Congress and federal agencies - to incorporate the best interests of the child standard into practice, policy and immigration law.

    Expenses $935,651

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

Listed in Part VII

  • Frances de Pontes Peebles

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Julian Dibbell

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Andrian Kellams

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Brian Ruben

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Aparna Puri

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Beata Leja

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Darrell Silver

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Elvis Garcia Callejas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jane Byrne

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jonathan Frankel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lori Wittman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Selma D Yznaga

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ana Tobar

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • William V Reiss

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Fabia Mirick Russano Yazaki

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chirlie Felix

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mariana Espinosa

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Gladis Molina Alt

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $256,555
    From this org
    $216,937
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,618
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $216,937
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,847
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,771
    Filer's total
    $256,555

  • Jennifer Nagda

    Policy Director

    Total calculated
    $206,613
    From this org
    $186,259
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,354
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $186,259
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,313
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,041
    Filer's total
    $206,613

  • Ungsuman Soti

    Philanthropy Director

    Total calculated
    $152,528
    From this org
    $117,748
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,780
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $117,748
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,887
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,893
    Filer's total
    $152,528

  • Daniel Douchette

    Chief Operating Officer

    Total calculated
    $192,692
    From this org
    $182,502
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,190
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $182,502
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,125
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,065
    Filer's total
    $192,692

  • Olivia Pena-Silva

    Child Advocate Program Co-

    Total calculated
    $142,720
    From this org
    $117,530
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,190
    Hours/week
    40

  • Marisa Chumil-Coz

    Child Advocate Program Co-

    Total calculated
    $152,332
    From this org
    $117,530
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,802
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $117,530
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,876
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,926
    Filer's total
    $152,332

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 · 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

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Part I, Line 3
Our Board of Directors determines the Executive Director salary, drawing on available comparability data, and contemporaneously substantiates the deliberation and decision.

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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
12 February 2024
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202430549349300318

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