Nonprofit · EIN 84-1833586
IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE
Tax-exempt · OAKLAND, CA 94612
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2025 | 990 | $14,173,392 | $9,519,089 | $4,654,303 | $8,321,532 | $437,942 | $7,883,590 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $13,928,146
- of which government grants
- $4,887,343
- Program service revenue
- $86,576
- Investment income
- $119,874
- Other revenue
- $38,796
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $139,430
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $1,673,962
- Other salaries and wages
- $5,214,135
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $8,263,859
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Legal fees
- $152,469
- Accounting fees
- $26,043
- Occupancy
- $38,293
- Travel
- $134,361
- Program services (functional)
- $8,355,447
- Management and general (functional)
- $977,343
- Fundraising (functional)
- $186,299
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $3,850,114
- Total assets, end of year
- $8,321,532
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $437,942
- Net assets, end of year
- $7,883,590
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $3,188,986
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $4,694,604
- Gross receipts
- $14,173,392
- Employees
- 48
- Volunteers
- 450
- Year formed
- 2019
- State of legal domicile
- CA
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELENI WOLFE-ROUBATIS | CO-EXEC DIR Officer | 40 | $190,846 | $42,556 |
| SIOBHAN M WALDRON | MANAGING ATTORNEY | 40 | $190,696 | $39,170 |
| KAITLIN G KALNA DARWAL | MANAGING ATTORNEY | 40 | $189,738 | $29,864 |
| ILYCE S SHUGALL | MANAGING ATTORNEY | 40 | $184,108 | $21,015 |
| KATIE ANNAND | MANAGING ATTORNEY | 40 | $183,874 | $17,779 |
| JEAN K YAMASAKI | MANAGING ATTORNEY | 40 | $188,758 | $9,776 |
| BARBARA C PINTO | CO-EXEC DIR Officer | 40 | $190,156 | $8,137 |
| RACHEL KATZ | FINANCE DTR Officer | 40 | $143,053 | $18,406 |
| MARGOT MENDELSON | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| SARAH J DIAZ | BOARD PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| TALIA INLENDER | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 1322 WEBSTER ST STE 401, OAKLAND, CA 94612-3218
- In care of
- % ELENI WOLFE ROUBATIS
- Principal officer (990 for 2025)
- ELENI WOLFE-ROUBATIS, 1322 WEBSTER STREET 401, OAKLAND, CA 94612
- Signed the 990
- ELENI WOLFE-ROUBATIS, CO-EXEC DIR
- Phone
- (510) 397-9428
- Return prepared by
- Perotti & Carrade CPAs
Mission
IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE'S MISSION IS TO PROMOTE JUSTICE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO UNDERSERVED IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES.
Program accomplishments
- ILDs Educational-Legal Partnerships in California focus on providing free, high-quality immigration legal services to our states students from kindergarten through higher education. By partnering with school systems, including nine California State University (CSU) campuses, thirty-four California Community College campuses, the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), West Contra Costa County Unified School District and partnerships with schools in Sonoma County ILD is able to address the urgent, gaping immigration legal needs of youth, immigrant families, unaccompanied minors and asylum seekers. Through these partnerships, we are building a sustainable and replicable service delivery model that connects our clients with the legal, educational, social and mental health services necessary to enable clients to focus on their studies and to create real and lasting change in their lives. In 2025, ILD continued our CSU Immigration Services Project, our free legal services and education delivery project in collaboration with the CA Department of Social Services (CDSS) and 9 campuses of the CA State University (CSU) system: San Francisco, San Jose, East Bay, Maritime, Stanislaus, Fresno, Bakersfield, Monterey, and San Luis Obispo as well as 34 California Community Colleges (CCC) that are located in the most remote regions of CA. In 2025, ILD attorneys provided 2, 434 individual consultations to students, faculty/staff, and family members. Through our higher educational partnership projects, ILD accepted for full-scope representation 1, 800 new cases for full scope representation in relief that includes DACA, asylum, U visa, T visa, SIJS, VAWA, removal defense, family petitions, adjustment of status petitions based on various grounds, and naturalization. In 2025, ILD conducted over 150 virtual presentations attended by over 10, 000 individuals throughout the CSUs and CCC systems, including large presentations, small campus student group events, faculty/staff, or student government meetings, all held virtually by Zoom, Facebook Live, Instagram Stories, and system-wide webinars; participated in dozens of meetings with campus student-leaders and faculty/staff for in-depth discussions on requested immigration law and policy topics. In 2025, ILD also continued our partnerships with TK-12 unified school districts in Oakland, West Contra Costa County and in Sonoma County. ILD attorneys represent over 1000 families, young adults and children in their court proceedings in seeking asylum, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, and U or T visa relief as victims of violent crime or human trafficking. In 2025, ILD attorneys represented 70 detained individuals in their full proceedings, which have in several cases also included habeas petitions relating to prolonged detention and conditions violations and also has included representation before the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. We also represent dozens of Franco class members as National Qualified Representative Program appointed counsel. In 2025, ILD continued our role as mentoring attorneys for 10 fellows in the California Immigrant Justice Fellowship and aims to expand the number of immigration attorneys at Central Valley and Central Coast nonprofits serving immigrants in removal proceedings. We also assist with fellowship program administration and training for all of the fellows. ILD continues to serve as lead attorney for Northern California, the Central and Central Coast for organizations who receive removal defense funding through CDSS. In this role, ILD attorneys serve as the Jurisdictional Capacity Building Organization for all of the CDSS removal defense grantees - we provide intensive mentoring for all attorneys at any organizations that received removal defense funding. In addition to daily one on one office hours, we provide case management assistance, brief and other legal filing review and also conduct training on all immigration court procedural and removal defense substantive topics. As of July 2025, ILD has also served as the Legal Services Support Coordinator for CDSSs recently launched Regional Network Hubs for Immigrant Families Project (RNH). RNH brings together non profit immigration legal services organizations across California by organizing the state into 11 centralized hubs through which immigration services, rapid response and educational rights for community members can be coordinated.Expenses $8,355,447 · grants $139,430
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | 990 on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 84-1833586
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 2019
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Crime and legal-related (I80)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $8,321,532
- Income (IRS master file)
- $14,173,392
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2025 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2024 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2023 | $5,649,949 | $6,192,238 | $2,705,301 | IRS |
| 990 | December 2022 | $5,639,585 | $4,572,761 | $3,145,882 | IRS |
| 990 | December 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS publishes only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years appear here as 990.tax collects the monthly files. 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS.
Questions about IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE
- What is the EIN of IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE is 84-1833586.
- Is IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2019.
- Are donations to IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE due?
- The return for tax year 2026 (the year ending December 31, 2026) is due May 17, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 names ELENI WOLFE-ROUBATIS.
- Who are the officers and directors of IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 lists 11 people; 8 received compensation from the organization, the highest $190,846 (ELENI WOLFE-ROUBATIS, CO-EXEC DIR).
- How much revenue does IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $14,173,392, expenses of $9,519,089 and total assets of $8,321,532 at year end.
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