Form 990 for tax year 2024
Filed by WESTERN CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $6,375,786
- Total expenses
- $6,862,908
- Contributions and grants received
- $5,625,952
- Grants paid
- $650,779
- Program service revenue
- $618,562
- Investment income
- $130,472
- Other revenue
- $800
- Total assets, end of year
- $6,403,554
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $1,832,878
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $4,570,676
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $5,423,717
- Management and general expenses
- $647,638
- Fundraising expenses
- $791,553
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $5,423,717
Program services were 79.0% 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.
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1c · Fundraising events
$339,970
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1d · Related organizations
$360,000
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$2,083,517
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$2,842,465
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2a · Program service revenue: Court awarded fees
total $618,562 · related or exempt $618,562
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3 · Investment income
total $130,472 · excluded $130,472
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8a · Fundraising events: gross income
$215,053
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8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$339,970
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8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses
$215,053
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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11a · Other revenue: Other income
total $800 · excluded $800
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11e · Other revenue, total
$800
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $650,779 · program services $650,779
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $264,646 · program services $211,717 · management and general $23,818 · fundraising $29,111
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $3,774,772 · program services $3,019,817 · management and general $339,730 · fundraising $415,225
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $149,771 · program services $119,817 · management and general $13,479 · fundraising $16,475
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $502,607 · program services $402,085 · management and general $45,235 · fundraising $55,287
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $302,438 · program services $241,951 · management and general $27,219 · fundraising $33,268
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11b · Fees: legal
total $3,955 · program services $3,164 · management and general $356 · fundraising $435
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $36,059 · program services $28,848 · management and general $3,245 · fundraising $3,966
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11g · Fees: other
total $162,695 · management and general $73,213 · fundraising $89,482
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13 · Office expenses
total $266,893 · program services $146,906 · management and general $53,994 · fundraising $65,993
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14 · Information technology
total $46,440 · program services $37,152 · management and general $4,180 · fundraising $5,108
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16 · Occupancy
total $368,873 · program services $295,098 · management and general $33,199 · fundraising $40,576
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17 · Travel
total $106,537 · program services $85,229 · management and general $9,589 · fundraising $11,719
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $18,967 · program services $15,174 · management and general $1,707 · fundraising $2,086
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23 · Insurance
total $52,117 · program services $41,693 · management and general $4,691 · fundraising $5,733
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24a · Other expenses: Library
total $74,773 · program services $59,818 · management and general $6,730 · fundraising $8,225
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24b · Other expenses: Dues & subscriptions
total $67,419 · program services $53,935 · management and general $6,068 · fundraising $7,416
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24c · Other expenses: Staff development
total $13,167 · program services $10,534 · management and general $1,185 · fundraising $1,448
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $320,113 · end of year $248,560
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $1,919,436 · end of year $1,393,308
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $501,633 · end of year $1,548,001
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $2,503,953 · end of year $1,787,901
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $23,885 · end of year $23,885
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $122,482 · end of year $127,623
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$259,640
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$259,640
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $419,575 · end of year $450,193
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $1,029,070 · end of year $824,083
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $423,287 · end of year $982,703
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $1,039,052 · end of year $850,175
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $973,506 · end of year $745,895
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $4,404,302 · end of year $3,824,781
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
For over 57 years, Western Center on Law and Poverty (WCLP) has led the fight in securing housing, health care and a strong safety net for low-income Californians by improving and transforming the public policy systems that touch their lives.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Leading the fight to secure housing, health care and a strong safety net for low-income Californians.
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Health Care: WCLP works on behalf of low-income Californians to defend health care reform; create new state based health care programs; extend coverage to the uninsured; strengthen county indigent health care programs; expand mental health services; stop illegal debt collection practices; and ensure appropriate consumer protections when accessing health care services.
Expenses $2,019,793 · Grants $242,350 · Revenue $202,703
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Public Benefits and Economic Justice: WCLP works to expand access to jobs, income, and opportunity for the poorest Californians; to reduce the criminalization of poverty and racial bias in anti-poverty programs, public institutions, work environments, and financial services. WCLP also works to ensure that the public safety net is actually available when needed, and that people struggling to gain independence from welfare actually receive the supportive services the law affords them. WCLP guarantees that the voice of poor people is heard in the policy debates that affect their lives.
Expenses $1,821,284 · Grants $218,532 · Revenue $197,074
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Housing: WCLP enforces and expands Californians' rights to: easily find and move into affordable housing; maintain their existing low-income housing; have stable housing and avoid homelessness; and live in inclusive and equitable communities. WCLP focuses on improving the rights of low-income renters, promoting equitable land use policies, preventing displacement, furthering fair housing, and ensuring that there is adequate production of new affordable housing.
Expenses $1,582,640 · Grants $189,897 · Revenue $218,785
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In all of our programs, WCLP actively seeks to promote racial equity in California. We forcefully challenge, through our advocacy work, structural racism embedded within public and private systems; work collaboratively with legal services and other community based organizations to ensure racial equity; and actively engage in regional and national coalitions for racial equity.
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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David Elson
Board Co-Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Lois D Thompson
Co-Chair / Interim ED (start 6/24)
- Total calculated
- $109,338
- From this org
- $109,338
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40 + 0.5 related
-
Howard J Steinberg
Secretary & Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Erin Brady
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Shane Brun
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Duane Campbell
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Brian Cardoza
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Corinna Cherian
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Julia B Cherlow
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Maisie Chin
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Justine Daniels
Director (start 3/24)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Felicia Davis
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Grant A Davis-Denny
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Raquel Donoso
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Darcy Down
Director (start 6/24)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Daralyn Durie
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Megan Ebor
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Diana Feinstein
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
David E Fink
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Marisol Franco
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jocelyn Freeman
Director (end 6/24)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
John S Gibson
Director (end 12/24)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Christine Goodman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Katherine Gorham
Director (start 6/24)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jonathan Gottlieb
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Joshua Hamilton
Director (end 3/24)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Cynthia Harding
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Michael Hostettler
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jaelyn Edwards Judelson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Olivia Kim
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Leif King
Director (end 12/24)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Susan K Leader
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Shira Liu
Director (end 6/24)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Thomas Loran III
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jessica L Lunney
Director (end 3/24)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Michael John Miguel
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ryan Nishimoto
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Adam Paris
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Alison L Plessman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Madhu Pocha
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Michael Reiss
Director (start 3/24)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Emily Reitmeier
Director (start 3/24)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Sylvia Rivera
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Connie Chan Robison
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Rey M Rodriguez
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Nick Spear
Director (start 9/24)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Michael Shipley
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Steven G Sklaver
Director (end 9/24)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Dianne Baquet Smith
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Patrick J Somers
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Elizabeth Butler Steyer
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Abraham Tabaie
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Lois M Takahashi
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Dale Walls
Director (end 9/24)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Christine Wong
Director (end 12/24)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Crystal D Crawford
Executive Director (end 6/24)
- Total calculated
- $155,308
- From this org
- $144,122
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $11,186
- Hours/week
- 40 + 0.5 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $144,122
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $2,375
- Nontaxable benefits
- $8,811
- Filer's total
- $155,308
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Richard Rothschild
Director of Litigation
- Total calculated
- $213,567
- From this org
- $185,944
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $27,623
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $185,944
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $7,000
- Nontaxable benefits
- $20,623
- Filer's total
- $213,567
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Brandon Greene
Dir. Policy Advocacy
- Total calculated
- $194,088
- From this org
- $175,152
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $18,936
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $175,152
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $4,000
- Nontaxable benefits
- $14,936
- Filer's total
- $194,088
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Nisha Vyas
Deputy Director
- Total calculated
- $192,720
- From this org
- $171,970
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $20,750
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $171,970
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $4,000
- Nontaxable benefits
- $16,750
- Filer's total
- $192,720
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Heather Masterton
Director of Philanthropy
- Total calculated
- $177,994
- From this org
- $170,994
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $7,000
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $170,994
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $4,000
- Nontaxable benefits
- $3,000
- Filer's total
- $177,994
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Stephanie Surabian
Dir. of Finance & Administration
- Total calculated
- $182,343
- From this org
- $165,414
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $16,929
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $165,414
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $4,500
- Nontaxable benefits
- $12,429
- Filer's total
- $182,343
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 · Form 990 of other organizations
- 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
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State Bar subcontract for fair housing in California's rural areas.
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$150,000
State Bar subcontract for fair housing in California's rural areas.
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Central California Legal Services
$120,000
State Bar medical debt grant.
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Inland Counties Legal Services
$120,000
State Bar medical debt grant.
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.
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501(c)3 · To support the activities of Western Center on Law and Poverty, Inc. · CA · controlled entity
Directly controlled by Western Center on Law and Poverty Inc
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 17 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202523219349310302
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