MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND
EIN 74-1563270 LOS ANGELES, CA
- Revenue 2024
- $7,275,973
- Expenses 2024
- $9,294,933
Program services were 81.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- R220
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 634 S SPRING ST 11TH
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).
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.
-
THOMAS A SAENZ
PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL
- Total calculated
- $507,336
- From this org
- $459,404
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $47,932
- Hours/week
- 47.5 + 2.5 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $404,404
- Bonus
- $55,000
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $26,368
- Nontaxable benefits
- $21,564
- Filer's total
- $507,336
-
NORMA CANTU
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
REGINA MONTOYA
1ST VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
GABRIELA PACHECO
2ND VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
IRMA RODRIGUEZ-MOISA
3RD VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
JEFFREY GARCIA SECRETARYTREASURER
FISCAL & INVESTMENT COMMITTEE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
JORGE A HERRERA GOVERNANCE
& NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
MICHAEL WAMPOLD
AUDIT COMMITTEE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
EMILIO GONZALEZ
DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
ANNA MARIA CHAVEZ
PROGRAM & PLANNING COMMITTEE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
YOLANDA CAMARENA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ELISA DE LA VARA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
STELLA M FLORES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LUIS RICARDO FRAGA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
PHIL FUENTES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LAURA E GOMEZ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BILL LANN LEE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RAUL LOMELI-AZOUBEL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ELIZABETH V LOPEZ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TOM RESTON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
AUGUSTINA REYES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
R OMAR RIOJAS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOSE SANCHEZ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CARLOS R SOLTERO
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RONALD W WONG
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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 — 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
- $7,275,973
- Expenses
- $9,294,933
- Contributions
- $4,231,022
- Grants paid
- $93,462
-
2023
- Revenue
- $7,321,161
- Expenses
- $9,196,575
- Contributions
- $4,029,989
- Grants paid
- $65,835
-
2022
- Revenue
- $11,598,841
- Expenses
- $9,365,937
- Contributions
- $6,875,493
- Grants paid
- $58,875
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.
Grants made
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
-
$700,250
2022 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
-
$605,000
2023 CULTURE & ARTS
-
2025 VOTING RIGHTS
-
$304,000
2024 TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF FISCAL PROJECTS
-
2022 DATA EQUITY PROGRAM
-
$226,000
2022 CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION, ADVOCACY
-
$218,750
2022 EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
-
$200,000
2023 Program Grant
-
$200,000
2024 CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION, ADVOCACY
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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.
Declared on its 2024 return
-
MALDEF PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CORP
501(C)(3) · OPERATE NONPROFIT OFFICE BUILDING · CA · controlled entity
Declared as related by
-
MALDEF PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CORP
On its 2024 return
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 10 September 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.