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CALIFORNIA CHANGELAWYERS

EIN 94-3104546 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$2,892,655
Expenses 2024
$2,202,064

Program services were 66.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
V26
Classification
1000
Street
1 EMBARCADERO CENTER

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

TO BUILD A BETTER JUSTICE SYSTEM FOR ALL CALIFORNIANS.

  • CALIFORNIA CHANGELAWYERS RUNS TWO GRANT PROGRAMS, THE LEGAL EMPOWERMENT FUND AND THE LEGAL AID FUND. THE LEGAL EMPOWERMENT FUND HARNESSES THE POWER OF LAWYERS FOR GOOD. THE LEGAL AID FUND SUPPORTS ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE CLOSING THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE GAP BY PROVIDING LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO THOSE CALIFORNIANS WHO CANNOT AFFORD ATTORNEYS. IN 2024, CALIFORNIA CHANGELAWYERS DISTRIBUTED $675,850 IN GRANTS THROUGH THESE TWO FUNDS.

    Expenses $776,246 · Grants $675,850

  • CALIFORNIA CHANGELAWYERS AWARDS NEXT GEN SCHOLARSHIPS TO FIRST- AND THIRD-YEAR LAW STUDENTS WHO ARE OVERWHELMINGLY THE FIRST IN THEIR FAMILY TO ATTEND LAW SCHOOL. BY SUPPORTING THE BRIGHTEST CHANGE MAKERS OF TOMORROW AS THEY BEGIN THEIR PURSUIT OF A LEGAL CAREER, WE ELIMINATE THE ROADBLOCKS THAT EXIST IN ACHIEVING SUCCESS. IN 2024, CALIFORNIA CHANGELAWYERS DISTRIBUTED $359,352 IN SCHOLARSHIPS AND SIMILAR AID.

    Expenses $459,474 · Grants $359,352

  • THE CALIFORNIA IMMIGRATION LEGAL FELLOWSHIP IS A FIRST OF ITS KIND PROGRAM IN STATE HISTORY WHICH EXPANDS ACCESS TO COUNSEL IN THE MOST UNDERSERVED RURAL REGIONS OF THE STATE. THE LEGAL FELLOWSHIP IS A THREE-YEAR CAPACITY BUILDING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR RECENT LAW GRADUATES TO BECOME DEPORTATION DEFENSE PRACTITIONERS. THE CURRENT COHORT OF SEVEN FELLOWS ARE PLACED ACROSS 6 HOST ORGANIZATIONS, SOME OF WHICH HAVE NEVER PROVIDED DEPORTATION DEFENSE SERVICES TO THEIR COMMUNITIES. THE PROGRAM AIMS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF QUALIFIED IMMIGRATION ATTORNEYS DEFENDING CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS AGAINST FAMILY SEPARATION.

    Expenses $231,699 · Grants $56,366

  • OTHER PROGRAMS SUPPORT THE ALUMNI LEADERSHIP COUNCIL, WHICH ASSISTS CALIFORNIA CHANGELAWYERS IN ITS WORK BY PROVIDING FEEDBACK ON INITIATIVES.

    Expenses $2,041 · Grants $662

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.

  • RASHA GERGES SHIELDS

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEXIS AMEZCUA

    CO-VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BENNIE J MACKEY II

    CO-VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK SELWYN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JASMINE SINGH

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CECILIA CHEN

    MEMBER-AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JONATHAN LIBBY

    MEMBER-AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEEPAK AHLUWALIA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHEILA BAPAT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TERESA BECK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PURDEY CASTLE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CAMILLE GRANVILLE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILL HANEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANNA HOHAG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KENNETH J LANGAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTOPHER A STECHER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHELLE YBARRA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTOPHER PUNONGBAYAN

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $244,155
    From this org
    $222,834
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,321
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $207,834
    Bonus
    $15,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,461
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,860
    Filer's total
    $244,155

  • JASJIT SINGH DHANOA

    DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $144,931
    From this org
    $133,453
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,478
    Hours/week
    40

  • CARLOS AGUILAR

    CHIEF CONTENT DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $115,263
    From this org
    $109,324
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,939
    Hours/week
    40

  • STACI YOUNG

    DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $118,597
    From this org
    $102,225
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,372
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $2,892,655
    Expenses
    $2,202,064
    Contributions
    $1,786,524
    Grants paid
    $1,092,230
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,035,100
    Expenses
    $3,419,702
    Contributions
    $1,888,711
    Grants paid
    $2,219,211
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,438,232
    Expenses
    $2,052,215
    Contributions
    $1,825,939
    Grants paid
    $1,003,738

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
    $2,784,200
    Expenses
    $2,146,183
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,801,326

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,754,652
    Expenses
    $1,800,069
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,336,905

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,118,704
    Expenses
    $1,763,098
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,030,347

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,183,602
    Expenses
    $1,783,681
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,118,398

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,347,148
    Expenses
    $1,396,278
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,557,795

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.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • CALBAR CONNECT

    C · ADMINISTER AFFINITY AND INSURANCE PROGRAMS · CA · 100% owned · share of income $2,016,548 · share of assets $1,190,613 · controlled entity

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.