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CALIFORNIA INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES INC

EIN 94-1676390 SACRAMENTO, CA

Revenue 2025
$4,924,569
Expenses 2025
$4,828,326

Program services were 92.9% 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
106 K ST STE 300

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 · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Mark Romero

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Victorio Shaw

    Board Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joe Ayala

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Janet Bill

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Norma Contreras

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Gonzalez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nicole Grigg

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Hueston

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ashley Jo Pomona

    Board Member (start 4/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JoAnne Lee

    Board Member (end 9/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Judge Christine Williams

    Board Member (end 9/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dorothy Alther

    VP/Legal Director

    Total calculated
    $242,056
    From this org
    $198,793
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,263
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $187,793
    Bonus
    $11,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $43,263
    Filer's total
    $242,056

  • Heather Hostler

    President/Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $223,332
    From this org
    $193,809
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,523
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $180,809
    Bonus
    $13,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,719
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,804
    Filer's total
    $223,332

  • Florberta Ferry

    Secretary/Dir. of HR & Admin.

    Total calculated
    $176,806
    From this org
    $113,550
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $63,256
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $113,550
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $16,744
    Nontaxable benefits
    $46,512
    Filer's total
    $176,806

  • Michael Selland

    Treasurer/Dir. of Finance & Ops.

    Total calculated
    $152,628
    From this org
    $129,848
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,780
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $119,348
    Bonus
    $10,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,533
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,247
    Filer's total
    $152,628

  • Sheila Quinlan

    Directing Attorney

    Total calculated
    $167,935
    From this org
    $124,266
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,669
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $124,266
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $15,385
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,284
    Filer's total
    $167,935

  • Veronika Brown

    Dir. of Compliance of Legal Tech

    Total calculated
    $136,166
    From this org
    $112,753
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,413
    Hours/week
    40

  • Michael Godbe

    Directing Attorney

    Total calculated
    $142,894
    From this org
    $116,245
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,649
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jay Petersen

    Senior Staff Attorney

    Total calculated
    $114,868
    From this org
    $114,868
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Simon Gertler

    Directing Attorney

    Total calculated
    $127,999
    From this org
    $106,945
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,054
    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 — 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $4,924,569
    Expenses
    $4,828,326
    Contributions
    $3,794,709
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,724,313
    Expenses
    $4,560,541
    Contributions
    $3,646,714
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,224,026
    Expenses
    $4,152,018
    Contributions
    $3,360,184
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,938,175
    Expenses
    $3,711,562
    Contributions
    $2,878,166
    Grants paid
    $0

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

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

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.