Immigration Institute of the Bay Area

What it reported doing in 2024

Building an immigration team: consistent with iiba's commitment to build interest in the field of immigration and to create a pipeline of immigration attorneys trained in many areas of immigration law, iiba has built on its past success with recruiting interns who have been students from schools including berkeley law, stanford, harvard, and university of California san francisco school of law - the summer placement with iiba is for ten weeks during which time law clerks and undergraduate interns have received significant mentoring and training. Three of our newer staff attorneys were initially summer interns. Our long term strategy is to make offers for staff attorney positions to law students while they are still in their last year of law school to maximize our competitiveness as an employer. Advocacy workiiba has expanded our advocacy work and staff joined the California immigrant and policy center (cipc) at the state capitol at the immigrant day of action. Iiba staff, along with volunteers and non profit partners and community leaders with state legislators to urge them to support policies that improve the well being of all californians. Iiba serves on cipc's steering committee. As part of iiba's advocacy, staff provided over 6000 legal consultations and has a 98% approval rate for all cases filed to united states citizenship and immigration services (uscis). Citizenship classesbecoming a us citizen has become even more challenging and more important. To prepare clients for their final step in the immigration process, iiba offers citizenship classes on line and in person in redwood city, san francisco and napa. These weekly volunteer led classes include mock interviews, civic lessons and english reading, writing and speaking practice. Over 270 students participated in our classes.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 68.9%; rating input score 69
• Program expense ratio: 72.8%; rating input score 73
• Fundraising efficiency: $11.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 9.4%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.53; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 11.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings