- Revenue 2024
- $3,392,527
- Expenses 2024
- $4,184,179
Program services were 79.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 04
- NTEE code
- R01
- Classification
- 1300
- Street
- 980 9TH ST STE 260
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
SEE SCHEDULE OACLU CALIFORNIA ACTION ADVOCATES FOR THE DEFENSE AND ADVANCEMENT OF CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE CALIFORNIA STATE CAPITOL. WE WORK TO SECURE GREATER EQUALITY, EQUITY, JUSTICE, AND FREEDOM FOR ALL CALIFORNIANS. OUR POLICY PRIORITIES ARE AIMED AT DISMANTLING SYSTEMS ROOTED IN OPPRESSION AND DISCRIMINATION THROUGH AN INTEGRATED ADVOCACY APPROACH THAT EMPLOYS RIGOROUS POLICY ANALYSIS, LOBBYING, COMMUNICATIONS, COALITION-BUILDING, AND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING. ACLU CALIFORNIA ACTION IS A 501(C)(4) SOCIAL WELFARE ORGANIZATION FORMED BY THE SIX ACLU ENTITIES IN CALIFORNIA FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENGAGING IN STATEWIDE ADVOCACY.
Activities or mission (Part I)
ACLU CALIFORNIA ACTION ADVOCATES FOR THE DEFENSE AND ADVANCEMENT OF CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS.
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All 2,776 pieces of legislation introduced in the California State Legislature were reviewed; 659 of those bills were actively monitored due to their potential to impact civil liberties and civil rights. We advocated our support for 120 bills; sponsoring 16 pieces legislation, nine of which were signed into law. We opposed 54 bills and succeeded in defeating or resolving our concerns on 43 of them. A legislative scorecard, evaluating Senate and Assembly members alignment with our legislative positions, was developed and published.
Expenses $3,334,892 · Grants $7,471 · Revenue $20,677
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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Neal Ortiguerra
Chair and Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Mariko Yoshihara
Secretary and Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Emily Da Silva
Treasurer and Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Robert White
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Norma Chavez-Peterson
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Kim Knox
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Victor Leung
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Abdi Soltani
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Elliot Gordon
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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David Trujillo
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $186,027
- From this org
- $167,832
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $18,195
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $167,832
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $7,649
- Nontaxable benefits
- $10,546
- Filer's total
- $186,027
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Carmen-Nicole Cox
Director of Government Aff
- Total calculated
- $245,320
- From this org
- $207,068
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $38,252
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $207,068
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $11,324
- Nontaxable benefits
- $26,928
- Filer's total
- $245,320
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Jack Zwald
Director of Finance and Administration
- Total calculated
- $230,298
- From this org
- $192,885
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $37,413
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $192,885
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $10,544
- Nontaxable benefits
- $26,869
- Filer's total
- $230,298
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Anita Narayana
Director of Strategic Communications
- Total calculated
- $186,077
- From this org
- $168,770
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $17,307
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $168,770
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $3,352
- Nontaxable benefits
- $13,955
- Filer's total
- $186,077
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Rachel Bhagwat
Legislative Advocate
- Total calculated
- $177,022
- From this org
- $153,888
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $23,134
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $153,888
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $8,400
- Nontaxable benefits
- $14,734
- Filer's total
- $177,022
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Ruth Dawson
Legislative Attorney
- Total calculated
- $168,151
- From this org
- $148,138
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $20,013
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $148,138
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $8,083
- Nontaxable benefits
- $11,930
- Filer's total
- $168,151
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $3,392,527
- Expenses
- $4,184,179
- Contributions
- $3,338,609
- Grants paid
- $7,471
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2023
- Revenue
- $3,824,959
- Expenses
- $3,413,530
- Contributions
- $3,799,285
- Grants paid
- $2,500
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2022
- Revenue
- $4,197,265
- Expenses
- $4,139,142
- Contributions
- $4,192,921
- Grants paid
- $5,400
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
- $4,073,861
- Expenses
- $2,982,544
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,088,727
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $772,858
- Expenses
- $178,827
- Assets (EOY)
- $594,031
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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$5,000
2022 ADVOCACY PURPOSES
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2023 ADVOCACY PURPOSES
Grants received
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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
$2,598,286
2022 LEGISLATIVE
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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
$2,348,286
2024 LEGISLATIVE
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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
$2,348,286
2023 LEGISLATIVE
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
Not present in the most recent drop.
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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.