San Francisco, CA

Respond Crisis Translation

EIN 84-5120142

Justice, Rights & Public Safety Immigrants & Refugees Immigrants & refugees

Mission

Respond Crisis Translation is an abolitionist language-justice organization that provides around-the-clock, professional, trauma-informed interpretation and translation to migrants, refugees, and anyone for whom language is a barrier to accessing safety and dignity.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity Contributions are tax-deductible

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About Respond Crisis Translation

Respond Crisis Translation is a San Francisco–based 501(c)(3) nonprofit (founded 2019) that mobilizes rapid-response interpretation and translation in 200+ languages for people affected by legal, medical, humanitarian, and environmental crises. The organization operates as a collective model that trains, hires, and coordinates translators and interpreters while partnering with NGOs, legal service providers, clinics, and advocacy groups; it partners with 600+ organizations and its EIN (84-5120142) is confirmed in public nonprofit filings. Over the last 2–3 years Respond has documented active frontline deployments, expanded capacity, and sustained regular communications and impact reporting (blog and case stories through 2024–2026), while securing foundation support to scale emergency language-access work worldwide.

Notable achievements

J.M.K. Innovation Prize awardee

Received the J.M.K. Kaplan Fund Innovation Prize (recognition and capacity-building support) which validated and helped scale Respond’s rapid-response language-access model.

Built a large, global linguist network

Scaled a network of thousands of translators and interpreters (reported across sources in the mid‑thousands) and built operational systems to mobilize them quickly for emergency legal, medical, and humanitarian needs.

Documented lifesaving legal support

Provided time-sensitive translations and interpreting used in critical legal cases and mass-response situations; partner reports on the site recount interventions that enabled detention releases, asylum hearings, and urgent parole actions.

At a glance

Total assets: $877K
Annual revenue: $1.3M
Tax status: 501(c)(3)Public charity
EIN: 84-5120142
Location: San Francisco, CA
Website: respondcrisistranslation.org
On Mahalo since: April 2026

Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.

Recognition

Endorsements and partner testimonials from national legal and human-rights organizations (examples cited include Southern Poverty Law Center, Al Otro Lado, RAICES, and Sanctuary for Families).

Institutional support from multiple foundations and funders (listed supporters include the J.M.K. Kaplan Fund, Roddenberry Foundation, Ashoka, Schmidt Family Foundation, Choose Love, Together Rising and others).

Media and field visibility, including feature stories and a regularly updated blog documenting frontline deployments and interpreter accounts (example: coverage in local press such as the San Francisco Examiner).

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