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BREATHE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

EIN 95-1641451 LOS ANGELES, CA

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Revenue 2024
$2,573,083
Expenses 2024
$2,923,727

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1290
Street
5858 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 300

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

To promote clean air and healthy lungs through research, education, advocacy, and technology.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To prevent lung disease and to promote lung health and clean air.

  • Youth Education Programs - Breathe Southern California partners with afterschool programs such as WRAP, the LBUSD afterschool program the Boys & Girls Club of Long Beach, LA Conservation Corps, and others to bring educational program to students. Since 2006, Breathe Southern California has served over 11,000 K-8th grade students in more than 118 schools through these programs. These programs include O24U, an environmental and asthma education program for 8 to 14-year olds teaching children about the environment and its impact on lung health, FiRST!, a tobacco and nicotine prevention program that aims to provide students with the skills and knowledge to resist tobacco and nicotine use and empower them to lead the first smoke-free generation, and Project GROW, a hands-on, garden-based learning program emphasizing the connection between the environment, food, and health.

    Expenses $1,545,000

  • Trudeau Society - This nearly century-old membership organization provides doctors and allied health professionals with networking opportunities, special events, and continuing education and conferences featuring the latest research on lung health. In April 2019 the Trudeau Society sponsored its annual COPD & Lung Health Conference that included lectures and panels provided by medical experts focusing on innovations in lung health treatments. Trudeau Society also sponsors the California Research Forum on Lung Health which enables pulmonary research investigators to share their findings relating to improved treatments, technologies and management of lung health conditions.

    Expenses $470,000

  • The Vaping Trend: Clearing the Air - This is a workshop for parents, teachers and school administrators to help them address the growing trend of youth vaping. We focus on teaching adults about the potential dangers of teen exposure to vaping both inside and outside of school.

    Expenses $295,000

  • Other programs

    Expenses $188,727

  • Adult Lung Health Workshops - For the 2024-25 fiscal year, Breathe Southern California began a partnership with CareMore Health to conduct workshops at community centers and senior centers throughout Los Angeles County to educate people about lung health and to conduct screenings for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

    Expenses $175,000

  • Lung Power - This family-centered patient education program for children and teens with asthma provides education and self-management tools to help families better manage their children's asthma.

    Expenses $175,000

  • Advocacy - Breathe Southern California advocates at the local, state and federal levels on issues related to public health, asthma, COPD, smoking and nicotine prevention, as well as ways to improve lung health and improve air quality in Southern California.

    Expenses $75,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Andrea M Caster Esq

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Eileena James Brown MBA

    Past Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Lauren Nevitt Esq

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Lucy Labruzzo

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Steven L Bryson Esq

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Cynthia Carter

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Gavin Chan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Angela DePaoli MS PMP

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Robert L Duitsman Esq

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Anita Gabrielian

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Diana Guth

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Dave Grant DBA

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Lawrence M Lebowsky Esq

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Megan Lorenz Esq

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Chris Musgrave

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Bo Okoroji

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Whitney ONeill

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Reza Ronaghi MD

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Kara Sax

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Erika Schimmel-Guiles

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Guy W Soo Hoo MD

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Lexi Wiley

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Zach Woolridge

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Marc Carrel

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,573,083
    Expenses
    $2,923,727
    Contributions
    $1,527,260
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,719,274
    Expenses
    $2,305,383
    Contributions
    $1,321,317
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,171,804
    Expenses
    $2,075,948
    Contributions
    $1,021,951
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $1,928,478
    Expenses
    $2,201,327
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,614,009
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,270,769
    Expenses
    $2,103,827
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,379,717
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,070,080
    Expenses
    $1,735,099
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,693,386
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,325,941
    Expenses
    $2,503,715
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,384,813
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,213,485
    Expenses
    $2,060,885
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,251,152
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,725,467
    Expenses
    $2,578,698
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,270,837
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,655,922
    Expenses
    $3,322,201
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,880,183
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,066,855
    Expenses
    $2,286,120
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,310,598
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,319,223
    Expenses
    $1,554,266
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,894,509
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,624,253
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,006,682

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • Emphysema Foundation of America

    501(c)(3) · Promote health issues on Emphysema · CA

  • Emphysema Foundation of Los Angeles

    501(c)(3) · Promote health issues on Emphysema · CA

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

    $730 raised

    2019 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $300 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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.