- Revenue 2023
- $782,959
- Expenses 2023
- $477,643
Program services were 90.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- W99
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 129 E CARRILLO 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).
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
IMPORTA Santa Barbara was founded in 2011 as an organization dedicated to providing services for Santa Barbara County's large population of low-income immigrants. In 2012, the organization decided to focus on providing immigration legal services through representatives accredited by the U.S. Department of Justice which governs immigration law. Since authorization was received in August of 2012, the organization has almost exclusively dedicated its work to providing immigration legal services, principally through representing immigrants in their petitions and applications to the USCIS. An important part of this work is educational outreach to immigrants in Santa Barbara County, and neighboring San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties. Our ultimate goal is advancing the integration of local immigrant families into the social and civic life of the community.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Importa provides services to the following populations: Detained individuals, Domestic Violence Victims, Farm workers, Human Trafficking Survivors, Individuals who are not in legal immigration status. Legal assistance in the following areas are provided; Adjustment of Status, Asylum applications, Consular Processing, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Family-based petitions, NACARA, Naturalization/Citizenship, Removal hearings, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, T visas, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), U visas, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions
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Legal Immigration Services Under the California DSS OneCalifornia Grant IMPORTA offers legal representation to immigrants without charge in applications for citizenship through naturalization, DACA, adjustment of status, family visa petitions, waivers, consular processing of visas in U.S. consulates in foreign countries, U Visa for crime victims, T Visas for victims of trafficking, VAWA self-petitions, Special Immigrant Juvenile status cases, and asylum cases.
Expenses $429,881
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Educational Outreach Throughout the Ventura County, Santa Barbara County, and Southern San Luis Obispo County Region The educational outreach programs are conducted in conjunction with many other organizations that serve South and Central Coast immigrant communities in areas of health, housing, and issues concerning senior citizens and children. The content of our outreach is primarily concerned with immigration legal matters. We work to dispel rumors and misinformation, and strongly oppose the widespread victimization of immigrants by illegal consultants.
As filed on the 2023 return.
Officers and directors · 2023
As listed in Part VII of the 2023 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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LUCERITO SALGADO
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ellen Goodstein
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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RUSSELL TRENHOLME
CHAIR/PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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PRIMI HERNANDEZ
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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RIGO GUTIERREZ
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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MARLINE FLORES
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2023
- Revenue
- $782,959
- Expenses
- $477,643
- Contributions
- $742,898
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $724,196
- Expenses
- $463,841
- Contributions
- $602,094
- 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.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $437,716
- Expenses
- $367,254
- Assets (EOY)
- $931,885
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $582,233
- Expenses
- $311,961
- Assets (EOY)
- $861,098
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $639,831
- Expenses
- $311,961
- Assets (EOY)
- $874,699
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $924,923
- Expenses
- $318,660
- Assets (EOY)
- $687,826
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $308,830
- Expenses
- $210,132
- Assets (EOY)
- $608,616
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $185,755
- Expenses
- $189,189
- Assets (EOY)
- $509,918
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $118,155
- Expenses
- $152,330
- Assets (EOY)
- $478,353
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $38,470
- Expenses
- $102,747
- Assets (EOY)
- $474,675
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2013
- Tax period
- 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013
- Principal officer
- Guadalupe Perez
- Mailing address
- 129 E Carrillo StSanta Barbara CA 93101
- Website
- Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
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
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2025 INCREASE IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES BY EXPANDING TRAINING FOR NONPROFITS TO HELP STAFF MEMBERS BECOME ACCREDITED REPRESENTATIVES UNDER THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OFFICE OF LEGAL ACCESS PROGRAMS
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2023 INCREASE IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES BY EXPANDING TRAINING FOR NONPROFITS TO HELP STAFF MEMBERS BECOME ACCREDITED REPRESENTATIVES UNDER THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OFFICE OF LEGAL ACCESS PROGRAMS
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2024 SUBGRANT RECIPIENT, LEGAL ASSITANCE TO LOW-INCOME CLIENTS
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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.