AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION

As filed

Subsection

04

Classification

1000

Street

39 DRUMM 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).

Group exemption

A subordinate covered by the group exemption of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC (EIN 13-3871360). matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2024

• COMMUNITY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT - THROUGH TRAININGS, CAMPAIGNS, VOTER EDUCATION AND PUBLIC EDUCATION, ACLU NC UNION SUPPORTS CALIFORNIANS TO DEFEND AND ADVANCE CIVIL LIBERTIES. ACLU NC UNION ALSO SUPPORTS A NETWORK OF CHAPTERS THAT ARE ACTIVE THROUGHOUT NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. ACLU NC UNION OPERATES FROM ITS OFFICES IN SAN FRANCISCO AS WELL AS IN FRESNO AND SACRAMENTO THAT SERVE THE CALIFORNIA CENTRAL VALLEY. ISSUE PRIORITIES INCLUDE: 1) CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM, INCLUDING POLICING, 2) DEMOCRACY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, INCLUDING VOTING RIGHTS, 3) GENDER, SEXUALITY AND REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, 4) IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS, 5) RACIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE, INCLUDING HOUSING, EDUCATION EQUITY AND INDIGENOUS JUSTICE, AND 6) TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES. IN ADDITION, ACLU NC UNION MADE GRANTS TO ACLU CALIFORNIA ACTION FOR STATE POLICY WORK.ACLU NC Union completed a strategic planning process to define priorities for the period from 2025-2029.

  Expenses $5,332,158 · Grants $2,593,286 · Revenue $5,658,845

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

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

  $9,584,433

  Expenses

  $6,148,837

  Contributions

  $3,692,888

  Grants paid

  $2,593,286

• 2023

  Revenue

  $6,301,021

  Expenses

  $6,788,705

  Contributions

  $2,617,223

  Grants paid

  $2,548,286

• 2022

  Revenue

  $8,539,200

  Expenses

  $9,980,855

  Contributions

  $2,872,669

  Grants paid

  $5,948,286

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

  $8,409,590

  Expenses

  $6,785,976

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,577,611

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,859,137

  Expenses

  $6,545,437

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,569,952

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,554,377

  Expenses

  $5,757,464

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,119,871

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,004,650

  Expenses

  $9,813,954

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,058,622

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,463,288

  Expenses

  $5,359,727

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,487,255

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,490,756

  Expenses

  $4,560,147

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,225,077

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,751,354

  Expenses

  $2,440,176

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,837,739

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,019,091

  Expenses

  $2,163,898

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,328,279

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

• ACLU INC

  $3,000,000

  2022 · LEGISLATIVE

• ACLU CA ACTION

  $2,598,286

  2022 · LEGISLATIVE

• ACLU CA ACTION

  $2,348,286

  2024 · LEGISLATIVE

• ACLU CA ACTION

  $2,348,286

  2023 · LEGISLATIVE

• YES ON PROP 1

  $250,000

  2022 · BALLOT MEASURE

• YES FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY

  $135,000

  2024 · BALLOT MEASURE

• OAKLAND FAIR ELECTIONS

  $100,000

  2022 · BALLOT MEASURE

• Ohioans United for Reprod

  $100,000

  2023 · BALLOT MEASURE

• YES FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY

  $100,000

  2023 · BALLOT MEASURE

• COMM PROTECT PUBLIC SAFETY

  $100,000

  2024 · BALLOT MEASURE

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

  $725,000

  2024 · LEGISLATIVE

• AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

  $650,000

  2022 · LEGISLATIVE

• AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

  $600,000

  2023 · LEGISLATIVE

• AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC

  $468,862

  2024 · AFFILIATE PROGRAM

• TAVERN GUILD FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO INC

  $7,942

  2022 · OPERATING FUND FOR THE ORGANIZATION

• TAVERN GUILD FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO INC

  $6,112

  2023 · OPERATING FUND FOR THE ORGANIZATION

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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