Organizations Filed Purposes:
The UFW Foundations mission is to empower communities to ensure human dignity.
The UFW Foundation empowers farm workers to improve workplace and living conditions through effective state and federal advocacy, grassroots engagement and the provision of critical services, such as credible immigration legal representationreaching 976,126 constituents through our programs in 2020.
As a result of the pandemic, the UFW Foundation provided critical disaster relief for farm workers and undocumented immigrants and their families. The UFW Foundation administered the Disaster Relief Assistance for Immigrants (DRAI) program in the Southern San Joaquin Valley for the state of California, resulting in $5,460,667 provided to 10,867 immigrants. Similarly, $12,565,903 in cash assistance was raised from philanthropic entities and donors that was distributed to 28,085 undocumented farm workers and other immigrants in California, Washington and Oregon. Overall, $18,026,570 in financial assistance was distributed to 38,952 constituents in 2020. Additionally, the UFW Foundation worked to address food insecurity, providing 189,000 meals through a partnership with World Central Kitchen and 62,280 emergency food boxes in collaboration with food banks and through direct purchasing of food through funding raised by the organization. In order to further protect farm workers, the UFW Foundation distributed 889,209 face masks to farm workers in California, Oregon, Washington and Michigan through on-the-ground outreach and education. Farm workers were also provided with information about emergency relief resources, workplace rights, COVID-19 prevention, and immigrant rights.
As the largest Department of Justice (DOJ) recognized immigration legal services provider in rural California, the organization worked diligently to address farm workers and other low-income immigrants immigration legal services needs during the pandemic. Due to the COVID-19 risks to staff and constituents, our immigration legal services, public benefits enrollment and tax services strategies shifted to virtual services for the duration of 2020. Despite this tremendous challenge, the UFW Foundation served a large number of constituents in 2020:Taxes: 68Public Benefits: 1,309 families Immigration: 5,882 cases Cases included DACA, Naturalization, Family Petitions, U-Visas, VAWA, Waivers, Removal Defense, etc. Served 620 students, staff and faculty at 16 California Community College Campuses.
FISCAL SPONSORSHIP
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Diana Tellefson Torres | Executive Director | 40 | $93,773 |
| Ester Cadavid | | 40 | $91,420 |
| Pam Ashlund | | 40 | $89,228 |
| Fatima Hernandez | | 40 | $89,228 |
| Maria Osorio | | 40 | $87,669 |
| Arturo S Rodriguez | FORMER PRESIDENT | 40 | $64,510 |
| Andrea La Rue | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Ramon Ramirez | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Guadalupe Martinez | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Tanis Ybarra | President | 1 | $0 |
| Teresa Romero | Director | 0 | $0 |
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public 990 form dataset) from:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202141389349300304_public.xml