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COURT OF MASTER SOMMELIERS AMERICAS

EIN 68-0398505 SANTA BARBARA, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2025
$4,584,872
Expenses 2025
$4,161,107

Program services were 76.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
06
Classification
1000
Street
223 REEF CT

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 · 2025

Mission

The organization's most significant activity is the education of service industry professionals about wine and wine service.

  • Conduct education courses on four levels leading to Master Sommelier degree.

    Expenses $3,189,962 · Revenue $4,573,945

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Julie Theobald

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $264,680
    From this org
    $264,680
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $210,000
    Bonus
    $54,680
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $264,680
  • Kathleen Lewis

    Director of Operations

    Total calculated
    $180,108
    From this org
    $180,108
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $157,039
    Bonus
    $23,069
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $180,108
  • Shayn Bjornholm

    Examination Director

    Total calculated
    $174,099
    From this org
    $174,099
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,800
    Bonus
    $22,299
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $174,099
  • Melissa Monosoff

    Education Director

    Total calculated
    $150,240
    From this org
    $150,240
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $143,086
    Bonus
    $7,154
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $150,240
  • Keith Goldston

    Instructor

    Total calculated
    $28,875
    From this org
    $28,875
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $28,875
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $28,875
  • Rob Bigelow

    Instructor

    Total calculated
    $21,500
    From this org
    $21,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $21,500
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $21,500
  • Timothy R Gaiser

    Instructor

    Total calculated
    $14,250
    From this org
    $14,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $14,250
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $14,250
  • Chris Bates

    Director

    Total calculated
    $13,250
    From this org
    $13,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Thomas Price

    Director

    Total calculated
    $10,625
    From this org
    $10,625
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Laura DePasquale

    Instructor

    Total calculated
    $10,500
    From this org
    $10,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $10,500
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $10,500
  • David Yoshida

    Vice Chairman

    Total calculated
    $9,000
    From this org
    $9,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Rebecca Fineman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $4,475
    From this org
    $4,475
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Robert Jones

    Director

    Total calculated
    $4,100
    From this org
    $4,100
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Chris Tanghe

    Director

    Total calculated
    $3,250
    From this org
    $3,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Vincent Morrow

    Director

    Total calculated
    $2,750
    From this org
    $2,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Michael Meagher

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $2,625
    From this org
    $2,625
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mia Van de Water

    Director

    Total calculated
    $1,875
    From this org
    $1,875
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Gillian Ballance

    Director

    Total calculated
    $750
    From this org
    $750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Brett Zimmerman

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $750
    From this org
    $750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $4,584,872
    Expenses
    $4,161,107
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,598,871
    Expenses
    $3,923,323
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $31,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,113,960
    Expenses
    $3,619,923
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $29,700

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,223,324
    Expenses
    $2,745,812
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,386,089
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,115,489
    Expenses
    $2,169,294
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,271,679
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,019,744
    Expenses
    $4,836,428
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,728,680
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,446,053
    Expenses
    $4,964,867
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,287,730
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,853,139
    Expenses
    $4,803,097
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,847,549
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,494,763
    Expenses
    $4,253,813
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,537,513
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,157,092
    Expenses
    $3,660,853
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,286,044
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,227,798
    Expenses
    $2,848,261
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,817,704
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,849,026
    Expenses
    $2,132,433
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,396,178
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,019,726
    Assets (EOY)
    $659,390

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.