California Latinas for Reproductive Justice

What it reported doing in 2024

Clrj has three main programmatic areas, community organizing and engagement, policy, and research. Our operations in these areas are designed as strategies to achieve annual objectives and long-term goals.community organizing and engagement (coe): clrj's community organizing and engagement department aims to build latina/e leadership and ensure that policy priorities are informed, shaped and moved by our communities. This program included activities through the community organizing pilot, unin de vecinas (udv) and the justice for young families initiative (j4yf). Udv focused its work on tenants' rights and an ongoing housing justice campaign, while j4yf is an initiative of California latinas for reproductive justice that champions young people's rights to self-determination and bodily autonomy, including decisions about whether or not to become parents, and their right to parent the children they have within a supportive environment. Accomplishments:- community organizing and engagement department continued to defend housing protections as an ongoing commitment to housing is reproductive justice. Clrj mobilized with the housing base, union de vecinas, and other key allies to safeguard the rent stabilization ordinance (rso) in bell gardens, ca. Through extensive outreach, a social media toolkit, and base building, we secured 30 public comments in support of the ordinance to ensure the city council upheld the ordinance despite heavy pressure from opposition to revoke it. Clrj deepened community knowledge through civic engagement workshops, partnered with legal experts (lafla), and supported t.u.r.n's utility campaign to fight unjust electricity hikes. Clrj was honored at t.u.r.n's 50th anniversary to receive the affordable housing grassroots champion award.- clrj's community organizing team continued coalition building through the involvement in the southeast la youth organizing network (syon). As a coalition member for the s.y.o.n network, clrj developed and disseminated surveys in the community of southeast los angeles, totaling over 150 completed surveys. Clrj hosted a youth visioning workshop with their housing base to hear the direct needs of youth in sela.- the community organizing team launched its first reproductive justice base in southeast los angeles in march. Clrj built a diverse, multigenerational network to advance knowledge of reproductive justice through eight meetings and mobilized the members to support survey dissemination for the abortion safe haven project. Lastly, the team sent three community leaders to the national conference hosted by sistersong women of color reproductive justice collective in Washington dc.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 84%; rating input score 84
• Program expense ratio: 72%; rating input score 72
• Fundraising efficiency: $22.32 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -16%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 13.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings