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FIRST TO SERVE INC

EIN 91-2167028 LOS ANGELES, CA

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Revenue 2024
$31,431,066
Expenses 2024
$31,075,179

Program services were 90.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
F20
Classification
1200
Street
1017 W 50TH ST

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

FIRST TO SERVE INC MISSION IS TO PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT AND RECOVERY SERVICE TO THE ECONOMICALLY CHALLENGED INDIVIDUALS THAT SUFFER FROM ABUSE.

  • THE ORGANIZATION STATED PURPOSE IS TO ASSIST AND ADDRESS THE SPECIFIC NEEDS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF PEOPLE IN RECOVERY AND HOMELESS ADULTS/FAMILIES IN SECURING PUBLIC HOUSING WHICH CONTINUES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY. THE MISSION IS TO PROIVDE TRADITIONAL AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING PROGRAMS FOR THE LOS ANGELES HOMELESS SERVICES AUTHORITY,DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES,DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, AND TO PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES TO HOMELESS SUBSTANCE ABUSERS AND DUALLY DIAGNOSED INDIVIDUALS/FAMILIES IN LOS ANGELES. IT ALSO OFFERS INTERIM HOUSING SERVICES TO ADULTS/FAMILIES IN NEEDS TO ASSIST THEM IN INCREASING INDEPENDENCE AND COMPLETING HOUSING GOALS.

    Expenses $28,252,970 · Grants $31,358,989 · Revenue $31,431,066

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.

  • Rev Richard Reed

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $188,984
    From this org
    $188,984
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Cheri Weeks

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $133,571
    From this org
    $133,571
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Yesenia Verjan

    EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $104,325
    From this org
    $104,325
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Christian Estrada

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2
  • Anthony Moore

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2
  • Tanese Edwards

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2 + 1.2 related
  • Tony Rushing

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2 + 1.2 related
  • Benjamin Shuler

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2 + 1.2 related
  • Stacey Lynn Wilson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2 + 1.2 related
  • Keith Blackwell

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.2
  • Rev Richard Reed

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Rev Richard Reed

    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
    $31,431,066
    Expenses
    $31,075,179
    Contributions
    $31,431,066
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $27,314,831
    Expenses
    $27,746,021
    Contributions
    $27,314,831
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $27,842,917
    Expenses
    $27,880,661
    Contributions
    $27,842,917
    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
    $27,111,937
    Expenses
    $27,419,564
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,484,917
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $23,896,032
    Expenses
    $22,894,083
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,074,870
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,028,650
    Expenses
    $15,134,375
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,094,985
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,460,854
    Expenses
    $14,628,002
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,795,605
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,757,139
    Expenses
    $7,485,126
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,756,039
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,732,673
    Expenses
    $3,541,458
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,224,578
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,732,673
    Expenses
    $3,549,458
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,216,578
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,592,898
    Expenses
    $2,714,496
    Assets (EOY)
    $517,158
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,686,470
    Assets (EOY)
    $298,201
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,458,018
    Assets (EOY)
    $659,577

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

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.