- Revenue 2024
- $51,028
- Expenses 2024
- $98,349
Program services were 59.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 5960 S LAND DR 840
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RURAL STUDIES CONDUCTS COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RESEARCH FOR ACTION IN RURAL COMMUNITIES WORKING FOR JUSTICE, EQUITY, AND HEALTH. WE HAVE A VISION FOR RURAL LIFE IN CALIFORNIA THAT IS RADICALLY TRANSFORMED AS SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION AND EXTRACTION GIVE WAY TO SYSTEMS WHICH ARE LIFE-AFFIRMING, SENSITIVE TO MANY TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE, EQUITABLE AND REFLECTIVE OF THE RICH CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF RURAL CALIFORNIA.
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CIRS CREATES RESEARCH-BASED TOOLS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH RURAL COMMUNITIES OF COLOR WHO ARE WORKING TO ERADICATE WHITE SUPREMACY, TAKE DOWN COLONIAL POWER STRUCTURES AND REPLACE DYSFUNCTIONAL INSTITUTIONS. OUR RESEARCH METHODS REFLECT OUR BELIEF THAT PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO TELL THEIR OWN STORIES AND THAT RESEARCH WHICH DEEPENS THEIR ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND, INTERPRET AND DESCRIBE THEIR LIVED REALITIES IS A KEY FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION.
Expenses $37,741
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CIRS SHINES A LIGHT ON HIDDEN HISTORIES AND UPLIFTS RURAL VOICES IN CALIFORNIA THROUGH MULTI-MEDIA DIGITAL AND AUDIO STORYTELLING PROJECTS. IN 2022, OUR STORYTELLING TEAM RELEASED THE PODCAST SERIES FOR AN EAR TO THE GROUND, WHICH UPLIFTED HISTORIES OF LATINO FARMERS IN RURAL CALIFORNIA.
Expenses $14,160
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CIRS' COMMUNITY ORGANIZING WORK BRINGS TOGETHER A CONSTELLATION OF RURAL PEOPLE FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE INCLUDING COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS, ARTISTS, HEALING PRACTITIONERS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND RESEARCHERS THROUGH ONLINE AND IN-PERSON EVENTS AND PARTICIPATION IN COALITION WORK.
Expenses $6,596
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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PAOLA ILESCAS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
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MEGAN BEAMAN JACINTO
PRESIDENT, T
- Total calculated
- $0
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JUAN DE LARA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
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ORALIA MACEDA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
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IGNACIO ORNELAS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
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GAIL WADSWORTH
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $51,028
- Expenses
- $98,349
- Contributions
- $51,028
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $300,502
- Expenses
- $700,276
- Contributions
- $300,497
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $725,700
- Expenses
- $728,537
- Contributions
- $725,213
- Grants paid
- $0
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $739,339
- Expenses
- $528,518
- Assets (EOY)
- $626,464
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $483,342
- Expenses
- $402,481
- Assets (EOY)
- $260,817
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $262,374
- Expenses
- $422,403
- Assets (EOY)
- $173,434
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $572,957
- Expenses
- $474,549
- Assets (EOY)
- $352,597
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $472,414
- Expenses
- $379,004
- Assets (EOY)
- $237,970
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $439,089
- Expenses
- $403,200
- Assets (EOY)
- $142,435
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $248,803
- Expenses
- $377,479
- Assets (EOY)
- $113,350
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $357,081
- Expenses
- $334,668
- Assets (EOY)
- $272,904
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $331,109
- Expenses
- $202,220
- Assets (EOY)
- $244,755
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2012 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $112,930
- Expenses
- $164,880
- Assets (EOY)
- $101,583
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
Grants made
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
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$100,000
2023 TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RURAL STUDIES
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$75,000
2022 PROJECT SUPPORT FOR HOUSING AND LAND STEWARDSHIP EDUCATION
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$25,000
2022 CORE PROGRAMS
Related organizations
From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
Declared as related by
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FOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCE INC
On its 2023 return
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.