Pangea Legal Services

What it reported doing in 2025

Education and Legal Empowerment: In 2025, Pangea worked to resource and protect communities. Pangea continues to provide free consultations, monthly asylum Know Your Rights workshops, Healing Justice workshops, and Pro bono clinics. Pangea also successfully launched our hybrid Employment Authorization Document (EAD) clinic for asylum seekers. With the assistance of pro bono attorney attorney teams from Morrison Foerster (MoFo), we successfully prepared 60 EAD applications for Bay Area residents. In 2025, Pangea continues to hold a central role in Rapid Response Coverage around the Bay Area. We provide coverage across San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties. This year, Pangea also stepped further into a leadership role regionally. We have helped coordinate the expansion of rapid response networks around the Bay Area, from recruiting and training new partner organizations to join the ranks of emergency legal responders, to training community members to serve community responder volunteers and dispatches, to convening strategy conversations within and across our networks. In partnership with Mission Action, Pangea helps ALEP workshop participants, who do not have attorneys, gather evidence and prepare for their immigration court hearings. In 2025, 2 families who attended the ALEP workshops won their asylum cases. From January through March 2025, FREE SF hosted an in-person fellowship for eight SF immigrant community members as part of our Sanctuary Voices program The fellowship built participants advocacy skills and supported them with resources to change narratives about public safety issues in San Francisco. In March 2025, FREE SF and San Francisco Immigrant Legal & Education Network (SFILEN) partnered together to give an educational workshop on San Franciscos sanctuary policy as part of the solution to public safety, and a know-your-right presentation to San Francisco Supervisors staff and other city hall staff. The majority of attendees were new staff who wanted to share resources to their constituents. We used this as an opportunity to educate new staff on the criminalization of immigrant communities.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 76.9%; rating input score 77
• Program expense ratio: 77.4%; rating input score 77
• Fundraising efficiency: $20.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 2nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • 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: 1.5%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 54.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 22.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings