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EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER

EIN 94-3042565 BERKELEY, CA

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Revenue 2024
$8,748,630
Expenses 2024
$9,941,280

Program services were 79.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80Z
Classification
1000
Street
2921 ADELINE ST

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

EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER'S MISSION IS TO PROMOTE JUSTICE AND BUILD A MORE HEALTHY, SECURE, PRODUCTIVE AND HOPEFUL COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING: 1) LEGAL SERVICES AND POLICY ADVOCACY THAT RESPONDS TO THE NEEDS OF LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES, (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)AND 2) LAW TRAINING THAT PREPARES FUTURE ATTORNEYS TO BE SKILLED AND PRINCIPLED ADVOCATES COMMITTED TO FINDING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO THE CAUSES AND CONDITIONS OF PROVERTY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE LARGEST PROVIDER OF FREE LEGAL SERVICES IN ALAMEDA COUNTY, (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)ASSISTING LOW INCOME COMMUNITY MEMBERS WITH HOUSING, HEALTH, IMMIGRATION, PUBLIC BENEFITS, CRIMINAL RECORDS, EDUCATION RIGHTS, JUVENILE DEFENSE, CONSUMER DEBT, HOMELESSNESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND OTHER GENERAL CIVIL LEGAL ISSUES, WHILE PROVIDING CLINICAL TRAINING FOR LAW STUDENTS TO PREPARE THEM TO BE SKILLED AND PRINCIPLED ADVOCATES COMMITTED TO FINDING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO THE CAUSES AND CONDITIONS OF POVERTY.

  • PROGRAM #1: THE EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER PROVIDED 4,217 LOW-INCOME COMMUNITY MEMBERS WITH 5,415 LEGAL SERVICES ADDRESSING PROBLEMS RELATED TO HOUSING, HEALTH, IMMIGRATION, PUBLIC BENEFITS, CRIMINAL RECORDS, EDUCATION RIGHTS, JUVENILE DEFENSE, CONSUMER DEBT, HOMELESSNESS, COMMUNITY ECONOMIC JUSTICE, AND OTHER GENERAL CIVIL LEGAL ISSUES, AS WELL AS POLICY ADVOCACY ON THE STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL ADDRESSING ISSUES IMPACTING EBCLC'S CLIENTS AND COMMUNITY. EBCLC RECOVERED OVER $4.8 MILLION FOR ITS CLIENTS IN FY25, THROUGH FAVORABLE SETTLEMENTS IN EVICTION CASES, AND SECURING DISCHARGE OF DEBTS AND ACCESS TO PUBLIC BENEFITS. ADDITIONALLY, 149 CLIENTS WERE PROVIDED WITH RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR IMMIGRATION APPLICATION FEES AND DEBT RELIEF.

    Expenses $5,911,959 · Grants $264,780 · Revenue $273,736

  • PROGRAM #2: THE EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER PROVIDED CLINICAL TRAINING TO 66 LAW AND SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS DURING FY25. STUDENTS WORK DIRECTLY WITH CLIENTS TO PROVIDE LEGAL AND OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF ATTORNEYS AND/OR SOCIAL WORKERS IN ALL OF EBCLC PRACTICE AREAS.

    Expenses $1,951,024 · Revenue $1,500,000

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.

  • Tiffany Thomas

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Monique Liburd

    BOARD VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Easha Anand

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Maureen Sheehy

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Chrisitin Hill

    BOARD PRO BONO DIRECTOR (THRU 02/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Amanda Karl

    BOARD PRO BONO DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Michael Ng

    BOARD CHAIR EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Michelle Wilde Anderson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Abhay Aneja

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Luke Apfeld

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Marian Avila Breach

    BOARD MEMBER (THRU 06/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Stephanie Daniels

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Jocelyn Gomez

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Divya Gopal

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • E Venessa Henlon

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Luan Huynh

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Sandra Johnson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Michael Kwun

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Daven Lowhurst

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Isaiah Paik

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Sneh Rao

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Michelle Natividad Rodriguez

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Michael Santos

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Alyssa Young

    BOARD MEMBER (THRU 06/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

  • Zoe Melissa Polk

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $222,759
    From this org
    $196,099
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,660
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $195,499
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $600
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,660
    Filer's total
    $222,759

The first 25 listed. 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
    $8,748,630
    Expenses
    $9,941,280
    Contributions
    $6,873,499
    Grants paid
    $264,780
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,386,519
    Expenses
    $10,383,215
    Contributions
    $6,053,099
    Grants paid
    $300,226
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $11,158,063
    Expenses
    $10,007,929
    Contributions
    $9,796,534
    Grants paid
    $221,368

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
    $10,466,463
    Expenses
    $9,510,520
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,582,966

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,280,227
    Expenses
    $8,969,170
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,403,482

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,442,729
    Expenses
    $9,797,679
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,903,324

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,431,155
    Expenses
    $8,322,209
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,941,172

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,565,765
    Expenses
    $7,306,816
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,635,232

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,562,525
    Expenses
    $5,156,412
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,239,088

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,221,139
    Expenses
    $4,499,749
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,660,658

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

    $1,508 raised

    2021 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $958 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.