Attach to Form 990 or Form 990-EZ.
See separate instructions.
Information about Schedule A (Form 990 or 990-EZ) and its instructions is at www.irs.gov/form990.
| (i) Name of supported organization | (ii) EIN | (iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 9 above or IRC section (see instructions)) | (iv) Is the organization in col. (i) listed in your governing document? | (v) Did you notify the organization in col. (i) of your support? | (vi) Is the organization in col. (i) organized in the U.S.? | (vii) Amount of monetary support | |||
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| Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | ||||
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(a) 2009 | (b) 2010 | (c) 2011 | (d) 2012 | (e) 2013 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") .... | 19,647,898 | 18,848,584 | 18,695,154 | 18,879,940 | 20,524,447 | 96,596,023 |
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf....... | 0 | |||||
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | 0 | |||||
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3 | 19,647,898 | 18,848,584 | 18,695,154 | 18,879,940 | 20,524,447 | 96,596,023 |
| 5 | The portion of total contributions by each person (other than a governmental unit or publicly supported organization) included on line 1 that exceeds 2% of the amount shown on line 11, column (f).. | 0 | |||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 96,596,023 | |||||
Calendar year
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(a) 2009 | (b) 2010 | (c) 2011 | (d) 2012 | (e) 2013 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 19,647,898 | 18,848,584 | 18,695,154 | 18,879,940 | 20,524,447 | 96,596,023 |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | 83,171 | 84,065 | 77,718 | 48,193 | 51,390 | 344,537 |
| 9 | Net income from unrelated business activities, whether or not the business is regularly carried on.. | ||||||
| 10 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part IV.).. | 799,717 | 893,527 | 2,074,291 | 2,665,237 | 610,857 | 7,043,629 |
| 11 | Total support (Add lines 7 through 10). | 103,984,189 | |||||






Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2009 | (b) 2010 | (c) 2011 | (d) 2012 | (e) 2013 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") . | ||||||
| 2 | Gross receipts from admissions, merchandise sold or services performed, or facilities furnished in any activity that is related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose...... | ||||||
| 3 | Gross receipts from activities that are not an unrelated trade or business under section 513.. | ||||||
| 4 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf... | ||||||
| 5 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | ||||||
| 6 | Total. Add lines 1 through 5. | ||||||
| 7a | Amounts included on lines 1, 2, and 3 received from disqualified persons... | ||||||
| b | Amounts included on lines 2 and 3 received from other than disqualified persons that exceed the greater of $5,000 or 1% of the amount on line 13 for the year. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 7a and 7b.. | ||||||
| 8 | Public support (Subtract line 7c from line 6.) | ||||||
Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2009 | (b) 2010 | (c) 2011 | (d) 2012 | (e) 2013 | (f) Total | |
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| 9 | Amounts from line 6... | ||||||
| 10a | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources.. | ||||||
| b | Unrelated business taxable income (less section 511 taxes) from businesses acquired after June 30, 1975. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 10a and 10b. | ||||||
| 11 | Net income from unrelated business activities not included in line 10b, whether or not the business is regularly carried on. | ||||||
| 12 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part IV.) .. | ||||||
| 13 | Total support. (Add lines 9, 10c, 11, and 12.).. | ||||||




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Attach to Form 990 or 990-EZ.
Information about Schedule O (Form 990 or 990-EZ) and its instructions is at| Return Reference | Explanation |
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| Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description | OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES TO PROMOTE THE RIGHTS OF, AND ADVOCACY FOR, PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. OTHER PROGRAMS INCLUDE: PROTECTION & ADVOCACY FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, PROTECTION & ADVOCACY FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, PROTECTION & ADVOCACY FOR BENEFICIARIES OF SOCIAL SECURITY, PROTECTION & ADVOCACY FOR ASSISTED TECHNOLOGY, PROTECTION & ADVOCACY FOR VOTING ACCESS, STATE OF CALIFORNIA HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY DEPARTMENT OF STATE HOSPITALS, THE STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA LEGAL SERVICES TRUST FUND PROGRAM - IOLTA TRUST FUND AND THE STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA LEGAL SERVICES TRUST FUND PROGRAM - EQUAL ACCESS, US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CLIENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, AND CALMHSA. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process | DRAFT IS PRESENTED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE FOR REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION TO THE FULL BOARD FOR REVIEW AND APPROVAL PRIOR TO FILING. AUDITORS, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DIRECTOR ARE AVAILABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS. 990 TRAINING MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts | CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY, QUESTIONNAIRE AND STATEMENT ARE COMPLETED BY EACH BOARD MEMBER ANNUALLY, AND REVIEWED BY THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTORS, PROGRAM DIRECTORS, MANAGING ATTORNEYS, OFFICE MANAGERS AND OTHER STAFF AS DETERMINED BY THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ALSO ANNUALLY AND AS DETERMINED NECESSARY COMPLETE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST DISCLOSURE FORM. A VENDOR LIST IS PROVIDED TO STAFF. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b: Compensation Review and Approval Process for Officers and Key Employees | CEO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, & TOP MANAGEMENT:The Board of Directors annually evaluates the Executive Director. As part of the process in the prior fiscal year, the Board retained services from a compensation consulting firm to perform the Executive Director's Compensation Comparability Analysis who provided a formal reasonableness opinion, and this year updated market trends were provided. The Board reviews external market comparability data and determines the appropriate compensation. For the top management, each position is placed in a competitive salary scale approved by the Board, based upon grant requirements, external market rates, internal comparisons, and salary increases are based on the employee's annual performance review.OTHER OFFICERS AND KEY EMPLOYEES:EACH POSITION IS PLACED IN A COMPETITIVE SALARY SCALE APPROVED BY THE BOARD, BASED UPON BOTH THE EXTERNAL MARKET RATES AND INTERNAL COMPARISONS, AND SALARY INCREASES ARE BASED ON THE EMPLOYEE'S ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available | AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. |
| LARGEST PROGRAMS - 2014 | $5,749,720 - Office of Clients' Rights Advocacy$2,892,324 - Protection & Advocacy for Developmental Disabilities$2,829,092 - Protection & Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness$1,483,606 - Protection & Advocacy of Individual RightsAbout Our WorkDisability Rights California (DRC), a federally mandated protection and advocacy agency, is the nations largest disability rights legal advocacy organization. For 37 years, DRC had worked to create a barrier-free, inclusive, diverse world where all people with disabilities enjoy the power of equal rights and opportunities, dignity, choice, independence, and freedom from abuse, neglect, and discrimination.We take to heart our mission statement, which is to advocate, educate, investigate, and litigate to advance and protect the rights of Californians with disabilities. In 2014, DRC impacted hundreds of thousands of individuals through impact litigation and investigations of abuse and neglect, directly served over 23,000 individuals, and provided information and training at over 1,200 events to underserved communities giving over 83,000 people tools to enforce their rights. In 2014, we advanced disability civil rights to improve access to prevent abuse and neglect, healthcare, education, mental health services, and stop discrimination.About Our ServicesWe provide a wide range of advocacy services. Staff in our four regional offices located in Sacramento (including a Fresno satellite office), Oakland, Los Angeles, and San Diego pursue class action and other impact litigation as well as individual representation to address wrongs and implement rights. Our Office of Clients Rights Advocacy secures services and supports for individuals with developmental disabilities through individual representation, outreach and training, and represents individuals who want to leave institutions and transition to the community. Staff at each of Californias five state psychiatric hospitals in our Office of Patients Rights respond to patient complaints and work to ensure that hospitals and facilities follow mental health laws, regulations, and policies and provide representation at mediation review hearings.DRC also provides information to thousands of Californians with disabilities about their rights and tools they need to enforce them. Our Peer and Self-Advocacy staff help people learn about their rights and teach them how to be their own advocates. Our Multi-Cultural Affairs advocates ensure that individuals from language and ethnic distinct communities receive information and training in languages they can understand.In addition to representation, education, and investigations, DRC effects positive systemic change through our public policy work. Our legislative and public information staff advocate to change laws and policies to end discrimination, foster equality, and protect access to health, education, and other benefits. Examples of our Advocacy WorkOur largest programs are: advocacy programs for individuals with developmental disabilities (performed by our Office of Clients Rights Advocacy and our Protection and Advocacy for Developmental Disabilities grant); advocacy programs for individuals with psychiatric disabilities (performed by our Office of Patients Rights and our Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness grant); and advocacy programs for individuals with other disabilities as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (performed by our Protection and Advocacy for Individual Rights grant).Our systemic advocacy often benefits individuals in all disability categories. This year, we continued our work to ensure that thousands of Californians with disabilities have access to the services and supports they need to live and work in the community. For example, we negotiated with the state and reached a historic agreement to transform the states provision of employment services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Currently, some employers can pay people with disabilities less that minimum wage based on their productivity. This practice is most often applied to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, who are in sheltered workshops where they do not work alongside people without disabilities. However, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, like Charles McCarrona 45 year-old man who wanted to work in the food service industry from the time he was a teenagercan work in the community earning above minimum wage. Although Charles graduated from his high school special education program, he was unable to get a job in the community. Instead, he worked in a sheltered workshop earning about $.33 per hour. Years later, with appropriate job development and coaching services, Charles now works at Farrells Ice Cream Parlor, earning $10 per hour. As a result of the agreement, the state is now working with DRC to develop a plan to make competitive integrated employment a reality in California. Our public policy work created far-reaching outcomes, including establishing new service models that provide Californians with developmental disabilities more choice and flexibility about their services such as access to independent living services in their familys home. We also worked to remove offensive and outdated terminology related to people with mental health disabilities in state statutes, resulting in the passage of a new law eliminating such terms as "insane" and "mentally defective."We worked to stop abuse of people with disabilities, conducting more than 360 investigations into mistreatment of people with disabilities in long term care facilities. For example, we responded to the request for assistance from a resident of a state institution who bravely contacted us and reported months of sexual abuse from a male staff member. She had been reluctant to report the abuse for fear of retaliation. Following the last rape, she wisely preserved physical evidence of the crime by hiding her soiled undergarments and sheets and reporting the rape to care staff. The alleged assailant was fired and a restraining order keeps him from coming onto the grounds of the institution, thereby protecting other residents. The District Attorney is considering criminal charges.DRC also issued a report highlighting the disparity between the substantial and increasing role law enforcement plays in responding to mental health crisis calls and the minimal training they receive to address these complex situations. Law enforcement is the first responder to situations involving persons experiencing a mental health crisis. Because of their disability, these individuals may be slow to respond to instructions, behave in ways that can be mistaken for aggression, or have difficulty communicating. The most effective tool for responding to a mental health crisis call is advance training in how to de-escalate the situation. Unfortunately, California law enforcement officers only receive six out of 664 hours of basic training instructional time covering all disabilities. This minimal training is in stark contrast to training requirements in other states. DRCs report urges policy changes such as enactment of a law requiring officers to receive adequate training in mental health crisis intervention.Services for Individuals with Developmental DisabilitiesDRC provides services to individuals with developmental disabilities through attorneys and advocates in our four regional offices, clients rights advocates at each of the 21 regional centers, and peer and self-advocates. We directly provided services on over 11,000 requests for assistance from Californians with developmental disabilities and affected the lives of thousands more through training, public policy advocacy, and systemic reform litigation.For example, we assisted a four year old girl with epilepsy who attends a public preschool program. Her doctor recommended that she be supervised during playtime. Rather than accommodate her needs, the school district limited her attendance to 2 hours of school a day. DRC helped by writing a letter to the school district requesting that she participate for 3 hours like every other student and have the assistance of an aide who could supervise her on the playground. The school district agreed to these requests. Our client is happy because she can go out and play with her friends. When DRC staff went to the mall to get some coffee, they ran into a former client who was in the food court area in her wheelchair and wearing a hospital-type identification bracelet. She told our staff that she had been placed in a skilled nursing facility for two months following a brief hospitalization but wanted to return home since she was feeling better. We asked her service coordinator for a nurse assessment to see if there was a medical reason that she could not return home. The assessment revealed no medical reason and our staff worked to ensure that she was discharged with the appropriate supporte |
| LARGEST PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) | Services to Individuals with Psychiatric DisabilitiesOur services to individuals with psychiatric disabilities are provided by attorneys and advocates in our four regional offices, patients rights advocates at each of the five state psychiatric hospitals, and peer self-advocates who provide training in 26 facilities located throughout the state. We directly provided services on almost 8,000 requests for assistance from Californians with psychiatric disabilities and affected the lives of thousands more through training, technical assistance to county patients rights advocates, public policy advocacy, and systemic reform litigation. For example, our client has physical and psychiatric disabilities and uses a trained service dog to assist her and help her enjoy her community. The dogs skills include turning lights on and off, standing still for bracing, separating her from a crowd when she is anxious, and alerting her when she is about to have a seizure. The grocery store closest to her home would not let her shop with her service dog. When her efforts to educate the store owner about her rights were unsuccessful, she contacted DRC for assistance. Our staff contacted the stores owner and reached an agreement that ensured that the service dog would be welcome in all areas of the store open to the public.We also assisted, a 33 year-old monolingual Hmong-speaking woman who is blind and has depression and a panic disorder. Her mother provides her with personal care services available through the In Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program. When she and her mother requested additional assistance, the county did not provide an interpreter so that her mother could explain the services she provides and the hours she works so her daughter can stay at home. Instead, the county reduced her hours by more than one-third. DRC staff intervened and provided representation at an administrative hearing. The hearing judge determined that she needed more hours to remain safely at home and required the county to provide additional IHSS hours. Services to Individuals with Physical, Learning and Sensory DisabilitiesAttorneys and advocates in our four regional offices provide services to individuals with physical, learning, and sensory disabilities. Last year, we directly provided services on over 6,000 requests for assistance from Californians with physical, learning, and sensory disabilities and affected the lives of thousands more through training, public policy advocacy, and systemic reform litigation.For example, we assisted a 30 year old man with a brain injury that significantly limits his independence. He spent the past decade in inappropriate, restrictive, and sometimes abusive living situations, including a state hospital where he was restrained for almost three weeks. After DRC staff filed a request for an administrative hearing, we negotiated with the State and secured a unique Medi-Cal waiver placement that allows him to live in his own home near his family with supportive services. These services are not only more appropriate but also are less costly to the state. He recently told his mother, Its cool having my house, I cant believe it. I still cant believe I can stay here and not have to leave.We also assisted a 98 year-old monolingual Chinese speaking woman with mobility disabilities who lives in senior housing. Her landlord moved her from her apartment to another unit due to renovations, which proved traumatic for her. She could not stop crying and shouting out and had to be sedated. When her daughter found another notice on her mothers door stating that she was going to have to move again in a few days, her daughter contacted DRC. DRC requested an accommodation that would allow her to remain in her current apartment. As a result of our advocacy, the landlord did not move her and she was allowed to stay in her most recent apartment permanently. |
| Software ID: | 13000170 |
| Software Version: | 2013v4.0 |