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GREY BEARS

EIN 94-2298681 SANTA CRUZ, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2024
$9,537,653
Expenses 2024
$9,295,104

Program services were 92.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P81Z
Classification
1000
Street
2710 CHANTICLEER AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

GREY BEARS IMPROVES THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF SENIORS THROUGH VOLUNTEERISM AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE ORGANIZATION'S PRIMARY PURPOSE IS TO DELIVER A WEEKLY BAG OF HEALTHY GROCERIES TO SANTA CRUZ RESIDENTS,50 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER, THROUGH ITS HEALTHY FOOD FOR SENIORS PROGRAM.

  • USING FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF GENERAL PUBLIC AND SEVERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, REVENUES GENERATED BY ITS RECYCLING PROGRAMS, AND SALES REVENUE OF DONATED ITEMS IN ITS THRIFT SHOP, THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDED OVER 2 MILLION POUNDS OF FOOD TO SENIOR CITIZENS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY.

    Expenses $8,582,645 · Grants $5,093,851

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jennifer Merchant

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $174,916
    From this org
    $174,916
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $174,916
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $174,916

  • Lisa Noble

    ACCT. MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $83,995
    From this org
    $83,995
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Marshall Delk

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Presleigh

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jacob Guth

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Judith Levin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Leslie O'Malley

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Satish Rishi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Richard Beach

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kathy Hormel

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Adeline Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Thomas Parker

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Betsey Lynberg

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Michael Watkins

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $9,537,653
    Expenses
    $9,295,104
    Contributions
    $6,724,048
    Grants paid
    $5,093,851
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $9,537,653
    Expenses
    $9,295,104
    Contributions
    $6,724,048
    Grants paid
    $5,093,851
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,319,155
    Expenses
    $8,568,063
    Contributions
    $6,135,817
    Grants paid
    $4,551,008
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,184,695
    Expenses
    $7,903,166
    Contributions
    $6,115,915
    Grants paid
    $4,401,926

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,587,321
    Expenses
    $7,546,662
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,120,085

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,377,018
    Expenses
    $7,372,591
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,420,160

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,491,755
    Expenses
    $6,166,121
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,313,034

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,556,718
    Expenses
    $6,367,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,535,891

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,206,559
    Expenses
    $6,025,463
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,325,019

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,483,712
    Expenses
    $5,282,545
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,535,472

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,664,457
    Expenses
    $5,668,275
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,221,996

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,357,161
    Expenses
    $5,073,911
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,290,851

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.