California Immigrant Policy Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815304541
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2132500880
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,159,767
- Expenses
- $5,274,497
- Assets
- $12,024,131
- Liabilities
- $970,590
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MASIH FOULADINEJAD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MASIH FOULADINEJAD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $231,666 total reported compensation
- APOLONIO MORALES (DEPUTY DIR, PROGRAMS & CAMPAIGNS): $171,525 total reported compensation
- WHELMA CABANAWAN LEFT IN 2024 (DEPUTY DIR, ADMIN & FINANCE): $160,391 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The California immigrant policy center upholds the humanity of immigrant communities in California by transforming systems to achieve racial, social, and economic justice.
What it reported doing in 2024
Movement building and civic engagement: the California immigrant policy center (cipc) engages in movement building, organizing, and strategic messaging and narrative communications to empower immigrant communities across California. Cipc mobilizes communities by training leaders and activists to advocate for their rights and address issues impacting their lives. Cipc forms coalitions with immigrant rights groups, labor organizations, and community-based entities to create a unified front on critical issues like workers' rights, health, and immigrant inclusion. Additionally, the organization prioritizes developing leadership skills within immigrant communities through training in advocacy and public speaking, fostering a new generation of advocates. Cipc organizes efforts to engage lawmakers by providing immigrant community members the training to share their stories and articulate the needs of immigrant communities. Cipc also advances strategic messaging, narrative, and public awareness campaigns to highlight the contributions of immigrants and raise awareness about their challenges, aiming to shift public perceptions. Through town halls and forums, cipc creates spaces for community voices to be heard and collective strategies to be developed. Through these comprehensive efforts, cipc aims uphold the humanity of immigrant communities in California by transforming systems to achieve racial, social, and economic justice.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 64% for direct work, and 36% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $27.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.1%; rating input score 99; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 48.1%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.28; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 43% of revenue deployed · 81.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $232K · 15 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 58 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 54 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.