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IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE

EIN 84-1833586 OAKLAND, CA

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Revenue 2025
$14,173,392
Expenses 2025
$9,519,089

Program services were 87.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80
Classification
1000
Street
1322 WEBSTER ST STE 401

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 · 2025

Mission

IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE'S MISSION IS TO PROMOTE JUSTICE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO UNDERSERVED IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES.

  • ILDs Educational-Legal Partnerships in California focus on providing free, high-quality immigration legal services to our states students from kindergarten through higher education. By partnering with school systems, including nine California State University (CSU) campuses, thirty-four California Community College campuses, the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), West Contra Costa County Unified School District and partnerships with schools in Sonoma County ILD is able to address the urgent, gaping immigration legal needs of youth, immigrant families, unaccompanied minors and asylum seekers. Through these partnerships, we are building a sustainable and replicable service delivery model that connects our clients with the legal, educational, social and mental health services necessary to enable clients to focus on their studies and to create real and lasting change in their lives. In 2025, ILD continued our CSU Immigration Services Project, our free legal services and education delivery project in collaboration with the CA Department of Social Services (CDSS) and 9 campuses of the CA State University (CSU) system: San Francisco, San Jose, East Bay, Maritime, Stanislaus, Fresno, Bakersfield, Monterey, and San Luis Obispo as well as 34 California Community Colleges (CCC) that are located in the most remote regions of CA. In 2025, ILD attorneys provided 2, 434 individual consultations to students, faculty/staff, and family members. Through our higher educational partnership projects, ILD accepted for full-scope representation 1, 800 new cases for full scope representation in relief that includes DACA, asylum, U visa, T visa, SIJS, VAWA, removal defense, family petitions, adjustment of status petitions based on various grounds, and naturalization. In 2025, ILD conducted over 150 virtual presentations attended by over 10, 000 individuals throughout the CSUs and CCC systems, including large presentations, small campus student group events, faculty/staff, or student government meetings, all held virtually by Zoom, Facebook Live, Instagram Stories, and system-wide webinars; participated in dozens of meetings with campus student-leaders and faculty/staff for in-depth discussions on requested immigration law and policy topics. In 2025, ILD also continued our partnerships with TK-12 unified school districts in Oakland, West Contra Costa County and in Sonoma County. ILD attorneys represent over 1000 families, young adults and children in their court proceedings in seeking asylum, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, and U or T visa relief as victims of violent crime or human trafficking. In 2025, ILD attorneys represented 70 detained individuals in their full proceedings, which have in several cases also included habeas petitions relating to prolonged detention and conditions violations and also has included representation before the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. We also represent dozens of Franco class members as National Qualified Representative Program appointed counsel. In 2025, ILD continued our role as mentoring attorneys for 10 fellows in the California Immigrant Justice Fellowship and aims to expand the number of immigration attorneys at Central Valley and Central Coast nonprofits serving immigrants in removal proceedings. We also assist with fellowship program administration and training for all of the fellows. ILD continues to serve as lead attorney for Northern California, the Central and Central Coast for organizations who receive removal defense funding through CDSS. In this role, ILD attorneys serve as the Jurisdictional Capacity Building Organization for all of the CDSS removal defense grantees - we provide intensive mentoring for all attorneys at any organizations that received removal defense funding. In addition to daily one on one office hours, we provide case management assistance, brief and other legal filing review and also conduct training on all immigration court procedural and removal defense substantive topics. As of July 2025, ILD has also served as the Legal Services Support Coordinator for CDSSs recently launched Regional Network Hubs for Immigrant Families Project (RNH). RNH brings together non profit immigration legal services organizations across California by organizing the state into 11 centralized hubs through which immigration services, rapid response and educational rights for community members can be coordinated.

    Expenses $8,355,447 · Grants $139,430

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis

    CO-EXEC DIR

    Total calculated
    $233,402
    From this org
    $190,846
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,556
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $179,146
    Bonus
    $11,700
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $34,556
    Filer's total
    $233,402

  • Siobhan M Waldron

    MANAGING ATTORNEY

    Total calculated
    $229,866
    From this org
    $190,696
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,170
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $179,146
    Bonus
    $11,550
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $31,170
    Filer's total
    $229,866

  • Kaitlin G Kalna Darwal

    MANAGING ATTORNEY

    Total calculated
    $219,602
    From this org
    $189,738
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,864
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $178,188
    Bonus
    $11,550
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,864
    Filer's total
    $219,602

  • Ilyce S Shugall

    MANAGING ATTORNEY

    Total calculated
    $205,123
    From this org
    $184,108
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,015
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $174,508
    Bonus
    $9,600
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,015
    Filer's total
    $205,123

  • Katie Annand

    MANAGING ATTORNEY

    Total calculated
    $201,653
    From this org
    $183,874
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,779
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $176,974
    Bonus
    $6,900
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,779
    Filer's total
    $201,653

  • Jean K Yamasaki

    MANAGING ATTORNEY

    Total calculated
    $198,534
    From this org
    $188,758
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,776
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $177,208
    Bonus
    $11,550
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,776
    Filer's total
    $198,534

  • Barbara C Pinto

    CO-EXEC DIR

    Total calculated
    $198,293
    From this org
    $190,156
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,137
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $178,456
    Bonus
    $11,700
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $137
    Filer's total
    $198,293

  • Rachel Katz

    FINANCE DTR

    Total calculated
    $161,459
    From this org
    $143,053
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,406
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,553
    Bonus
    $1,500
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $6,333
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,073
    Filer's total
    $161,459

  • Margot Mendelson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah J Diaz

    BOARD PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Talia Inlender

    Secretary

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $14,173,392
    Expenses
    $9,519,089
    Contributions
    $13,928,146
    Grants paid
    $139,430
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $8,697,761
    Expenses
    $7,744,151
    Contributions
    $8,599,519
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,649,949
    Expenses
    $6,192,238
    Contributions
    $5,523,042
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,639,585
    Expenses
    $4,572,761
    Contributions
    $5,620,545
    Grants paid
    $50,000

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,346,042
    Expenses
    $3,080,468
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,885,896

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,776,184
    Expenses
    $1,757,739
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,567,514

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $765,071
    Expenses
    $350,999
    Assets (EOY)
    $436,155

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.

Grants made

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Grants received

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.