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| (i) Name of supported organization | (ii) EIN | (iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 10 above (see instructions)) | (iv) Is the organization listed in your governing document? | (v) Amount of monetary support (see instructions) | (vi) Amount of other support (see instructions) | |
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Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2016 | (b) 2017 | (c) 2018 | (d) 2019 | (e) 2020 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grant.") .. | 13,084,702 | 15,354,218 | 17,625,265 | 19,438,871 | 20,647,628 | 86,150,684 |
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf.... | ||||||
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | ||||||
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3 | 13,084,702 | 15,354,218 | 17,625,265 | 19,438,871 | 20,647,628 | 86,150,684 |
| 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).. | ||||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 86,150,684 | |||||
Calendar year
(or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2016 | (b) 2017 | (c) 2018 | (d) 2019 | (e) 2020 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 13,084,702 | 15,354,218 | 17,625,265 | 19,438,871 | 20,647,628 | 86,150,684 |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | 1,145 | 930 | 617 | 695 | 333 | 3,720 |
| 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 VI.).. | 430,154 | 439,587 | 221,514 | 74,278 | 545,710 | 1,711,243 |
| 11 | Total support. Add lines 7 through 10 | 88,096,800 | |||||
Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2016 | (b) 2017 | (c) 2018 | (d) 2019 | (e) 2020 | (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) 2016 | (b) 2017 | (c) 2018 | (d) 2019 | (e) 2020 | (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 VI.) .. | ||||||
| 13 | Total support. (Add lines 9, 10c, 11, and 12.).. | ||||||
| Section A - Adjusted Net Income | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Net short-term capital gain | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Other gross income (see instructions) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Add lines 1 through 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Depreciation and depletion | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Portion of operating expenses paid or incurred for production or collection of gross income or for management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for production of income (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Other expenses (see instructions) | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Adjusted Net Income (subtract lines 5, 6 and 7 from line 4) | 8 | ||||
| Section B - Minimum Asset Amount | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Aggregate fair market value of all non-exempt-use assets (see instructions for short tax year or assets held for part of year): | 1 | ||||
| a | Average monthly value of securities | 1a | ||||
| b | Average monthly cash balances | 1b | ||||
| c | Fair market value of other non-exempt-use assets | 1c | ||||
| d | Total (add lines 1a, 1b, and 1c) | 1d | ||||
| e |
Discount claimed for blockage or other factors (explain in detail in Part VI): |
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| 2 | Acquisition indebtedness applicable to non-exempt use assets | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Subtract line 2 from line 1d | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Cash deemed held for exempt use. Enter 0.015 of line 3 (for greater amount, see instructions). | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Net value of non-exempt-use assets (subtract line 4 from line 3) | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Multiply line 5 by 0.035 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Minimum Asset Amount (add line 7 to line 6) | 8 | ||||
| Section C - Distributable Amount | Current Year | |||||
| 1 | Adjusted net income for prior year (from Section A, line 8, Column A) | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Enter 85% of line 1 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Minimum asset amount for prior year (from Section B, line 8, Column A) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Enter greater of line 2 or line 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Income tax imposed in prior year | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Distributable Amount. Subtract line 5 from line 4, unless subject to emergency temporary reduction (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| Section D - Distributions | Current Year | |
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| 1 Amounts paid to supported organizations to accomplish exempt purposes | 1 | |
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2
Amounts paid to perform activity that directly furthers exempt purposes of supported organizations, in excess of income from activity |
2 | |
| 3 Administrative expenses paid to accomplish exempt purposes of supported organizations | 3 | |
| 4 Amounts paid to acquire exempt-use assets | 4 | |
| 5 Qualified set-aside amounts (prior IRS approval required - provide details in Part VI) | 5 | |
| 6 Other distributions (describe in Part VI). See instructions | 6 | |
| 7Total annual distributions. Add lines 1 through 6. | 7 | |
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8
Distributions to attentive supported organizations to which the organization is responsive (provide details in Part VI). See instructions |
8 | |
| 9 Distributable amount for 2020 from Section C, line 6 | 9 | |
| 10 Line 8 amount divided by Line 9 amount | 10 | |
| Section E - Distribution Allocations (see instructions) |
(i) Excess Distributions |
(ii) Underdistributions Pre-2020 |
(iii) Distributable Amount for 2020 |
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| 1 Distributable amount for 2020 from Section C, line 6 | ||||
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2
Underdistributions, if any, for years prior to 2019 (reasonable cause required-- explain in Part VI). See instructions. |
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| 3 Excess distributions carryover, if any, to 2020: | ||||
| a From 2015....... | ||||
| b From 2016....... | ||||
| c From 2017....... | ||||
| d From 2018....... | ||||
| e From 2019....... | ||||
| fTotal of lines 3a through e | ||||
| g Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| h Applied to 2020 distributable amount | ||||
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Carryover from 2015 not applied (see instructions) |
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| j Remainder. Subtract lines 3g, 3h, and 3i from line 3f. | ||||
| 4Distributions for 2020 from Section D, line 7: | ||||
| $ | ||||
| a Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| b Applied to 2020 distributable amount | ||||
| c Remainder. Subtract lines 4a and 4b from line 4. | ||||
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5
Remaining underdistributions for years prior to 2020, if any. Subtract lines 3g and 4a from line 2. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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6
Remaining underdistributions for 2020. Subtract lines 3h and 4b from line 1. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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7 Excess distributions carryover to 2021. Add lines 3j and 4c. |
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| 8 Breakdown of line 7: | ||||
| a Excess from 2016..... | ||||
| b Excess from 2017..... | ||||
| c Excess from 2018..... | ||||
| d Excess from 2019..... | ||||
| e Excess from 2020..... | ||||
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| Form 990, Part III, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission: | BayLegal's services impact clients in significant ways, including preventing homelessness, establishing safety and protection from abuse for domestic violence victims and their children, securing vital healthcare services to treat physical and mental health conditions, and securing income or alleviating predatory debt to help individuals and families living in poverty to provide for food, rent, and other necessities of life. Often, BayLegal is able to resolve multiple interconnected issues for families to improve their overall self-sufficiency and quality of life. BayLegal impacts the community through extensive outreach and education, technical assistance provided to other community and governmental agencies, systemic advocacy and impact litigation. The following client story provides a brief example of how BayLegal's services change lives: BayLegal's client was receiving social security disability benefits for several years because of a condition that made sustained employment difficult and often impossible. In recent years, the client found part-time employment and reported the income to the Social Security Administration (SSA) as required to maintain eligibility. In the spring of 2020, an illness prohibited continued work. During this period of health problems and unemployment, the client received a notice that SSA would be terminating all benefits and holding the client liable for an overpayment due to "unreported income". Despite multiple attempts to address the inaccurate termination, the client was unable to navigate SSA COVID-19 related closures and service reductions. Facing benefit cutoff, the client contacted BayLegal's Legal Advice Line. BayLegal attorneys navigated the SSA system during COVID and submitted necessary paperwork to preserve benefits and have the overpayment rescinded. BayLegal also balances its direct individual services with systemic work to address root causes of issues harming low-income residents and extend our impact at a scale far beyond the tens of thousands of individual clients and family members we serve directly each year. By working directly with clients, BayLegal develops expert knowledge of the problems that cause poor people harm and impede their struggle for self-sufficiency. Systemic work, informed by our work with clients, includes impact litigation, legislative and administrative advocacy, and training, technical assistance and policy development for agencies that administer housing, healthcare and benefits programs for the Bay Area's low income residents. The following case provides a clear example of how BayLegal's systemic work has widespread impact: Anderson vs. City of San Jose: In this case Bay Area Legal Aid, along with co-counsel from the Public Interest Law Project and Public Advocates, argued that charter cities like San Jose are not exempt from the state Surplus Land Act. This legislation requires local governments to prioritize affordable housing uses when disposing of surplus government land. In November 2019, California's Sixth Appellate District Court of Appeal affirmed that charter cities must comply with state law. In March 2020, the California Supreme Court declined to review the case leaving the lower court decision intact. The ruling will affect all 121 charter cities in California-among them the state's largest cities including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Oakland along with San Jose). Low-income San Jose residents Sarah Anderson and Joana Cruz, and nonprofit organizations Urban Habitat Program and Housing California brought this case in 2016 to challenge San Jose's adoption of a policy that conflicts with the Surplus Land Act, and to enforce legal protections for the development of affordable housing. Beyond impact litigation like Anderson vs. City of San Jose, BayLegal also works in collaboration with public agencies and as an advocate to remove barriers to healthcare and public benefits access, design systems that meet low-income clients where they are, and change regulations and procedures to better meet client needs. A significant example of this work from 2020 is: In Alameda County, a young man who had previously been in foster care reached out to Bay Area Legal Aid's Youth Justice unit for help. He was seeking help to remain in his transitional housing through California's THP-Plus Extension, which allows former foster youth to continue receiving support after they would normally "age out" of the system so long as they remain enrolled in school. Unfortunately, at that time Alameda County was not participating in the THP-Plus Extension. While negotiating a temporary agreement keeping the client housed, our attorneys began advocating for Alameda County to adopt the THP-Plus Extension plan in order to provide a longer-term solution for our client and other former foster youth in the same situation. We partnered with foster youth serving organizations to develop recommendations for non-participating counties to create more housing options for THP-Plus youth. The CA Department of Social Services agreed to distribute these recommendations to all counties. Following the state's action and a meeting with Alameda County Social Services, the county agreed to opt in to the THP-Plus Extension on a temporary basis. These changes meant that our client was able to remain in transitional housing until the end of 2020, giving him time to establish school enrollment and develop a more permanent housing transition plan to mitigate the threat of suddenly becoming unhoused during the Covid-19 pandemic. The value of these services for a single individual over this period is estimated at $15,000, and is potentially several times more than this when considering the long-term costs of school dropout, wage loss, and incarceration that this educational and housing support help to prevent. Our advocacy at the county and state level has helped to ensure that this level of support extends to hundreds and potentially thousands of other former foster youth in Alameda County and statewide. Whether directly engaged in alleviating the costs of poverty and returning financial assets to low-income families and communities, or addressing conditions of safety and security that in turn make participation in safety net programs, work, and economic activity more accessible to survivors of interpersonal violence, BayLegal's services ultimately work to interrupt the legal inequities that can underlie and reinforce long-term cycles of poverty. Recent studies have confirmed that investing in legal services is a cost effective means of solving issues faced by low-income people, and our own data confirms that every dollar invested in our annual budget has produced between $1.75 and $2.50 in economic benefits directly returned to low-income families and communities in each of the past five years. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, BayLegal has experienced a rising demand for legal services across our seven county service region. We continue to strategically develop our program to ensure it is responsive to the ongoing and emerging needs of the diverse populations it serves. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b | The Audit/Finance Committee of the Board of Directors reviews the Form 990 before it is filed. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c | Each member of the Board of Directors is provided a copy of the Conflict of Interest Policy on an annual basis. Board members and key staff have a duty to disclose conflicts of interest, or the appearance of such conflicts, to the Executive Director or the Chair of the Board. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 | The executive committee of the Board of Directors recommend the level of salary and other compensation of the Executive Director to the Board of Directors based on performance and comparative data for other Legal Aid programs. The Executive Director has the authority to establish compensation of the key management staff, and relies on information from other Legal Services programs and salary surveys. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 | Copies of the documents are provided upon request, some are also published in the annual report and on BayLegal's website. |
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