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CALIFORNIA LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC

EIN 94-2301744 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$2,598,794
Expenses 2024
$2,702,803

Program services were 90.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A900
Classification
1000
Street
2 MARINA BLVD BLDG C 265

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

Legal education and referrals. Mediation and arbitration services. Youth arts internship program. Arts in corrections program.

  • Designing Creative Futures - Internship opportunities in arts-related business for formerly incarcerated inviduals, including trainings, workshops, and follow-up.

    Expenses $1,115,176 · Revenue $1,122,628

  • Member Services - Services provided to artists include a legal referral program to provide legal aid to artists. Sponsorship of seminars and workshops relating to arts law and publication of arts law handbooks. Organizes Arts in Corrections conferences.

    Expenses $958,103 · Revenue $841,372

  • Arbitration & Mediation - An arbitration and mediation service for disputes relating to the arts. The purpose of this program is to provide an inexpensive and informed service for alternative dispute resolution.

    Expenses $208,302 · Revenue $358,451

  • Arts & Community Development - California Lawyers for the Arts leads a consortium of arts organization which train at-risk youth and place them in summer jobs in arts-related fields.

    Expenses $163,169 · Revenue $155,149

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.

  • Alma Robinson

    Executive Direc

    Total calculated
    $162,031
    From this org
    $162,031
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $162,031
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $162,031

  • Michael Parme

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MJ Bogatin

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Davis

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Darren Presher

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gerry Bryant

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Grace Bergen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Teresa Carey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Stuart Carroll

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Aaron Rubin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Peter Dickinson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Keith Cooper

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Uduak Oduok

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Eric Chun

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Eugene Clark-Herrera

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Nicholas White

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Kimberley Hancock

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Eric Hayashi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Edward Hearn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Joseph Lewis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Stephanie G Herrera

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Gary Goldberger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Marisa Johnson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Benjamin Kimes

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • William Turner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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
    $2,598,794
    Expenses
    $2,702,803
    Contributions
    $2,393,039
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,545,995
    Expenses
    $2,444,209
    Contributions
    $2,387,979
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,154,680
    Expenses
    $1,888,676
    Contributions
    $2,047,580
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,459,709
    Expenses
    $1,271,592
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,047,411

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,047,368
    Expenses
    $1,171,738
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,022,475

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,283,893
    Expenses
    $1,101,527
    Assets (EOY)
    $872,727

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,306,698
    Expenses
    $1,224,980
    Assets (EOY)
    $968,325

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,043,417
    Expenses
    $1,023,332
    Assets (EOY)
    $747,475

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,105,415
    Expenses
    $1,042,505
    Assets (EOY)
    $537,414

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $971,134
    Expenses
    $832,348
    Assets (EOY)
    $472,828

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $921,028
    Expenses
    $812,717
    Assets (EOY)
    $344,107

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

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 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.