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C R L A FOUNDATION

EIN 94-2800442 SACRAMENTO, CA

Revenue 2024
$7,000,575
Expenses 2024
$5,971,866

Program services were 83.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
Street
2210 K STREET SUITE 200

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 mission of CRLAF is to achieve social justice and equity in partnership with farmworkers and the underserved in rural communities through community, legislative and legal advocacy. Our vision is for all farmworkers and their families to be treated with dignity and respect. CRLAF helps increase the capacity of rural immigrants to advocate for themselves, to develop leadership, and to become more engaged in their communities as stakeholders driving the agenda for improved economic and social conditions. We work in the areas of immigration and citizenship, labor, housing, education, community health, worker safety, and environmental justice.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CRLAF works for social justice and equity for farmworkers and the underserved in rural California through outreach, community education, legislative and administrative advocacy, class action litigation, and direct representation. In 2021, we strengthened laws and policies protecting workers' rights and health; worked to reduce agricultural work hazards and pesticide exposures faced by farmworkers and rural residents; helped keep immigrant families together; improved access to higher education; helped Californians living in rural communities secure, clean and reliable drinking water; and prevented homelessness due to the pandemic.

  • CRLAF's Immigration Project: Collective work is organized across three different project areas: Affirmative Legal Services, Removal Defense, and San Joaquin Immigrant Empowerment. The Immigration Project provides community education, legal training to qualified legal services providers, assistance to eligible immigrants applying for affirmative immigration benefits, and representation before USCIS and the Executive Office for Immigration Review. The Removal Defense Project provides direct representation in detained and non-detained court cases. The AOD program provides training, technical assistance, and scheduling support to pro bono attorneys to increase their capacity to represent individuals who otherwise would lack representation in Immigration Court. The San Joaquin Immigrant Empowerment Project's work centers around the complex intersection of public health, immigrants' rights, and immigration law. During this fiscal year, we focused especially on providing immigration legal services, advocacy, education and outreach, and legal training. The Immigration Project also provided technical assistance to other community partners addressing two major challenges facing immigrant communities: the quickly-changing federal administration's enforcement priorities and updates to case processing, and to the impacts on undocumented workers' rights and remedies due to their immigration status. We additionally provide regular immigration legal services to survivors of crime at a women's center in San Joaquin County. Most of CRLAF's immigration cases in this region are humanitarian cases, such as U visa, T visa, or VAWA applications. From San Joaquin to near Fresno county, CRLAF is one of the only organizations currently taking these types of cases at no cost to the client, as most of the individuals we serve do not have the means to hire a private attorney, and there is a huge unmet need for attorneys to take on humanitarian aid cases pro bono in this region. CRLAF plans to continue building community capacity to support such work moving forward. Finally, in FY25, in furtherance of its role as a statewide support center, and in line with its strong history as an incubator for new projects that expand capacity and resources to support our client communities, CRLAF incubated and spun off part of its immigration unit as an independent 501(c)(3) organization to provide expanded direct immigration legal services in the Sacramento Valley. CRLAF provided $500,000 in startup funds and subgranted additional funds to ensure continuity of services for clients being served by the spin off.

    Expenses $1,889,636 · Grants $1,261,651

  • Sustainable Rural Communities (SRCP): CRLAF's Sustainable Rural Communities Project works to ensure equal access to healthcare for California's farmworker and rural indigent population through a three-part strategy of health data development, analysis and dissemination; public policy analysis and discussion; and community outreach, education, capacity building, and advocacy. This project addresses the systemic causes of our communities' poverty, poor health, and degraded environments due to lack of regulatory enforcement and generational disinvestment. We coordinate with other advocates on a local, regional, and statewide strategy to craft large-scale solutions around healthcare for all, environmental justice issues (land use, unmet transit needs, water quality), foster more accountable and inclusive governance, and direct financial resources to rural, farmworker, migrant, immigrant, and disadvantaged communities. Safe Drinking Water: Since 2015, our team has administered an Interim Emergency Bottled Water program to the two unincorporated farmworker communities in western Fresno County with over 700 residents. CRLAF continues to advocate with Cantua Creek and El Porvenir residents for clean, safe drinking water access, while simultaneously working with California's Water Resources Control Board to ensure the communities' uninterrupted bottled water delivery until a permanent solution is reached. Statewide Drought Project: In 2022, CRLAF was selected to lead a statewide three-year drought resilience project to identify and develop an innovative and collaborative policy platform and to conduct efforts centering farmworker communities economic opportunities and access to water and other resources in California's ongoing drought. As a result of this three-year collaborative work, we were able to leverage funding for community education and infrastructure projects for the San Joaquin Valley, Inland Empire, and California's Central Coast. We also provided advocacy for the state's climate bond to benefit these regions.Farmworker Health Study: CRLAF led a budget request to update a 20-year old study of farmworker health data that CRLAF had initiated and advocated for UC Merced Community and Labor Center to undertake. We gained final approval in the state budget for a 3-year study in the amount of $1.5 million. The study was published by UC Merced in 2023. The data has been used to inform policy and demonstrate the severe inequities that rural farmworkers and their families face. This study and our on-the-ground work with affected communities has been instrumental in strengthening our argument for stronger health and safety protections for all rural client communities. We continue to use this report for advocacy and improving access to health care coverage for rural immigrants.Health4All: Over the past couple of years, CRLAF has provided critical support and advocacy alongside various other coalitions and organizations to defend the two recent Medi-Cal expansions, first for undocumented elderly aged 50 and above, then for young adults aged 19-26, as federal cuts and resulting state cuts will further negatively impact farmworkers and reverse progress on eliminating the uninsured and underinsured healthcare access gaps. These actions will exacerbate already disparate health care access for thousands of California residents.

    Expenses $708,969 · Grants $134,829

  • Legal Services Support: (State Trust Funding): CRLAF's primary purpose is to serve as a statewide support center. CRLAF advocates provide training, technical assistance, and advocacy support to qualified legal services projects to increase their capacity to represent low-wage workers and their families with labor and employment, health access, housing, public benefit and disaster relief eligibility. CRLAF also engages in class action litigation, co-counseling, and direct representation of indigent clients who are ineligible for federally-funded legal services due to immigration status.

    Expenses $799,485

  • Legal Services Support:CRLAF is unique in that we primarily operate as a statewide legal support center, where we provide training, technical assistance, advocacy support, and resources to QLSPs and other partners across California. Key subjects include labor and employment, health advocacy, pesticide and worker safety, rural housing, and education advocacy. We provide education, consultations, and co-counseling, including advancing referrals from partners who are unable to represent undocumented individuals and mixed-status families. We are additionally involved in a couple of statewide projects working to prevent homelessness.

    Expenses $1,609,316 · Revenue $189,727

  • Central Valley Partnership:The Central Valley Partnership is a project of CRLA Foundation that provides training, technical assistance, and advocacy support on immigration, health, and education equity. CRLAF received funds from the Paycheck Protection Program to support the organization's work due to the unprecedented effects of the COVID-19 global pandemic.

  • Field Services:The Field Services Project provides legislative and administrative advocacy on labor and education, rural housing, rural health, pesticides and worker safety; training, technical assistance, and advocacy support to qualified legal services advocates on issues affecting farm worker and other low-wage worker issues; and co-counseling on labor, employment, and civil rights matters.Field Sanitation:Now called The Pesticide and Work Health and Safety Project works to shed light on and reduce agricultural work hazards and pesticide exposures faced by California's agricultural workers and other rural residents. The Project maintains an ongoing dialog with Cal-OSHA and local, state and federal pesticide regulatory officials to encourage more thorough investigations and stricter enforcement of existing laws and regulations, improvements in regulations, and increased use of safer and more sustainable pest control alternatives. We also provide technical assistance to legal services programs and community organizations on developing outreach materials, accessing and understanding pesticide and work safety laws and regulations and public records and responding to pesticide poisoning incidents. We collaborate with members of other non-profit organizations to educate policy makers, agency officials and the public about heat stress, pesticide exposure and other work and environmental health and safety hazards affecting California's farmworkers and other rural poor.CA Advocacy for Farm Workers:Project monitors state and federal legislation of importance to farm workers, acts as a watchdog over operation of the federal H-2A agricultural guest worker program in California, and takes positions in support of farm worker interests in important regulatory actions undertaken by state agencies that affect agriculture.

  • Rural Housing Project:This project engages in legislative and administrative advocacy on low-income rural and farmworker housing issues, publishes a quarterly newsletter on state housing issues, and conducts training on housing issues throughout the state. In response to COVID-19, our housing policy team worked in the State Capitol and with the Judicial Council of California to halt evictions to keep families safe from homelessness. From the Governor's orders calling for an eviction moratorium to the Judicial Council's adoption of an emergency protection rule preventing summonses from being issued in nearly all "unlawful detainer" eviction cases, our housing policy efforts helped to halt a potential massive wave of evictions across California.Our team continues to advocate at local and statewide levels to establish adequate protections for renters facing potential pandemic-related evictions. We are also working to develop a legislative response that would provide longer-term protections from eviction for non-payment of rent due to COVID-related loss of income.

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.

  • Virginia Villegas Esq

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christina Brigagliano Esq

    Vice-President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jose Olivera Esq

    Sec/Treas to Bd member (12/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Manual Magana

    Board Member (end 12/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Richard Pearl Esq

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jessica Stender Esq

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ricardo Torrez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maria Zamora

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amagda Perez

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $132,868
    From this org
    $128,123
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,745
    Hours/week
    30

  • Veronica Melendez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $149,830
    From this org
    $135,980
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,850
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Juanita Ontiveros

    HR Director

    Total calculated
    $162,530
    From this org
    $118,168
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $44,362
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $118,168
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,023
    Nontaxable benefits
    $40,339
    Filer's total
    $162,530

  • Noe Paramo

    Project Director

    Total calculated
    $139,415
    From this org
    $115,154
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,261
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Mark Schacht

    Deputy Director

    Total calculated
    $200,314
    From this org
    $174,313
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,001
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $174,313
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,493
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,508
    Filer's total
    $200,314

  • Daniel Gutierrez

    Accountant

    Total calculated
    $136,401
    From this org
    $117,629
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,772
    Hours/week
    37.5

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,000,575
    Expenses
    $5,971,866
    Contributions
    $6,315,710
    Grants paid
    $1,396,480
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $15,375,076
    Expenses
    $14,465,533
    Contributions
    $14,397,887
    Grants paid
    $8,994,528
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,705,233
    Expenses
    $7,373,871
    Contributions
    $7,457,333
    Grants paid
    $1,498,189

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
    $9,882,317
    Expenses
    $5,478,699
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,581,961

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,778,583
    Expenses
    $4,114,070
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,494,295

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,600,630
    Expenses
    $3,493,394
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,719,656

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,507,862
    Expenses
    $2,834,630
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,165,751

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,156,494
    Expenses
    $2,603,094
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,441,647

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,156,494
    Expenses
    $2,603,094
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,441,647

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,172,507
    Expenses
    $2,215,412
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,879,688

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,085,847
    Expenses
    $1,772,254
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,898,724

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,154,408
    Expenses
    $1,575,609
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,589,433

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.