THE COUNTRY FRIENDS INC

EIN 95-6514998 RANCHO SANTA FE, CA

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Revenue 2025: $559,740
Expenses 2025: $553,115

Program services were 82.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
Classification: 1000
Street: 6030 EL TORDO

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 SOLE PURPOSE IS TO RAISE MONEY TO SUPPORT HUMAN CARE AGENCIES WITH EMPHASIS ON THOSE PROVIDING SERVICES TO WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND THE ELDERLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF HELPING PEOPLE TO HELP THEMSELVES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO RAISE FUNDS TO SUPPORT HUMAN CARE AGENCIES LOCATED IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY.

THE COUNTRY FRIENDS IS A PROUD PHILANTHROPIC MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY. WE ARE A 501(C)3 ORGANIZATION FOUNDED IN 1954, AND THRIVING FOR MORE THAN 60 YEARS.OUR MISSION IS TO SUPPORT SAN DIEGO BASED HUMAN CARE AGENCIES, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT BENEFIT WOMEN, CHILDREN, THE ELDERLY, MILITARY AND THOSE WITH DISABILITIES. WE GENERATE OUR FUNDS VIA OUR BEAUTIFUL CONSIGNMENT SHOP IN DOWNTOWN RANCHO SANTA FE, AS WELL AS FROM SEVERAL POPULAR AND WELL-ATTENDED FUNDRAISING EVENTS. OVER THE PAST SIX DECADES WE HAVE AWARDED ALMOST $13 MILLION TO LOCAL SAN DIEGO HUMAN CARE AGENCIES.

Expenses $455,348

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.

Yvette LetourneauYVETTE LETOURNEAU

THIRD VP-DIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

40
Suzanne NewmanSUZANNE NEWMAN

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Deborah CrossDEBORAH CROSS

FIRST VICE PRES

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Marci CavanaughMARCI CAVANAUGH

SECOND VP-HUMAN

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Trish BuggTRISH BUGG

RECORDING SECRE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Janean StripeJANEAN STRIPE

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Jean WatersJEAN WATERS

HONORING & REME

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Erika FetterERIKA FETTER

HOSPITALITY CO-

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Becky Le BretBECKY LE BRET

HOSPITALITY CO-

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Jolene DavidsonJOLENE DAVIDSON

HCF CO-DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Robyn HudgensROBYN HUDGENS

HCF CO-DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Sage BillickSAGE BILLICK

NEWSLETTER DIRE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Mia ParkMIA PARK

PUBLICITY CO-CH

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Andrea NaversonANDREA NAVERSON

PUBLICITY CO-CH

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Sharon MauroSHARON MAURO

COSIGNMENT STOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Maggie BobileffMAGGIE BOBILEFF

SPECIAL EVENTS

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Laura WhiteLAURA WHITE

EVENTS VOLUNTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Sharon FergesSHARON FERGES

AREA DIRECTOR C

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Elaine BecerraELAINE BECERRA

AREA DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Terri ChivettaTERRI CHIVETTA

AREA DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Kim QuinnKIM QUINN

AREA DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Chris EpsteinCHRIS EPSTEIN

AREA DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Rebecca FranksREBECCA FRANKS

AREA DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Tamara Lafarga-JosephTAMARA LAFARGA-JOSEPH

AREA DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Valerie ParkerVALERIE PARKER

AREA DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2

The first 25 listed. 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

2025

Revenue

$559,740

Expenses

$553,115

Contributions

$282,839

Grants paid

$302,793
2024

Revenue

$479,616

Expenses

$452,958

Contributions

$266,213

Grants paid

$258,230
2023

Revenue

$399,816

Expenses

$389,004

Contributions

$13,017

Grants paid

$212,900
2022

Revenue

$718,356

Expenses

$442,506

Contributions

$326,185

Grants paid

$249,650

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$559,740	$553,115	$282,839	$302,793
2024	$479,616	$452,958	$266,213	$258,230
2023	$399,816	$389,004	$13,017	$212,900
2022	$718,356	$442,506	$326,185	$249,650

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

$433,649

Expenses

$318,053

Assets (EOY)

$725,861
2020 · 990

Revenue

$334,956

Expenses

$296,561

Assets (EOY)

$635,706
2019 · 990

Revenue

$424,615

Expenses

$430,933

Assets (EOY)

$597,602
2018 · 990

Revenue

$442,879

Expenses

$444,687

Assets (EOY)

$654,115
2017 · 990

Revenue

$337,310

Expenses

$375,584

Assets (EOY)

$805,294
2016 · 990

Revenue

$349,900

Expenses

$374,779

Assets (EOY)

$858,972
2015 · 990

Revenue

$335,621

Expenses

$367,867

Assets (EOY)

$947,673
2014 · 990

Revenue

$352,255

Expenses

$387,344

Assets (EOY)

$992,658
2013 · 990

Revenue

$312,702

Expenses

$321,496

Assets (EOY)

$1,040,104
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$308,774

Assets (EOY)

$1,020,864

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$433,649	$318,053	$725,861
2020	990	$334,956	$296,561	$635,706
2019	990	$424,615	$430,933	$597,602
2018	990	$442,879	$444,687	$654,115
2017	990	$337,310	$375,584	$805,294
2016	990	$349,900	$374,779	$858,972
2015	990	$335,621	$367,867	$947,673
2014	990	$352,255	$387,344	$992,658
2013	990	$312,702	$321,496	$1,040,104
2012	990	not reported	$308,774	$1,020,864

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

MAYA RELIEF FOUNDATION

$20,000

2022
WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES

$18,000

2025
SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION

$15,800

2022
CASA DE AMPARO

$15,000

2022
GIRLS RISING

$15,000

2025 RECRUIT, TRAIN & PROVIDE SUPPORT FO
PROMISES 2 KIDS

$15,000

2025
VOICE FOR OUR CITY CHOIR

$15,000

2025
RISE UP INDUSTRIES

$14,130

2025
BE A FRIEND-IMPACT A LIFE

$12,400

2025
RITECARE CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE

$12,000

2025

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

$10,900

2023 SUPPORT
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$10,000

2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$10,000

2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$5,150

2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.