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EIN 68-0176855 PETALUMA, CA

Revenue 2024
$14,700,221
Expenses 2024
$10,627,499

Program services were 78.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 2744

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

AT COTS, OUR MISSION IS TO ASSIST THOSE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS TO FIND AND KEEP HOUSING, INCREASE SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND IMPROVE WELL-BEING. WE ENVISION A COMMUNITY WHERE EVERYONE HAS A PLACE TO CALL HOME.

Activities or mission (Part I)

AT COTS, OUR MISSION IS TO ASSIST THOSE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS TO FIND AND KEEP HOUSING, INCREASE SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND IMPROVE WELL-BEING. WE ENVISION A COMMUNITY WHERE EVERYONE HAS A PLACE TO CALL HOME. WE PROVIDE EMERGENCY SHELTER, SUPPORTIVE HOUSING, RECUPERATIVE CARE, RAPID RE-HOUSING, HEALTHY DAILY MEALS, AND A COORDINATED RANGE OF SERVICES DESIGNATED TO HELP FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.

  • MARY'S TABLE AND HOMELESS SERVICES (KPH & RAPID REHOUSING). SEE SCHEDULE O.

    Expenses $3,583,313

  • COMMUNITY HOUSING AND RESIDENT SERVICES PROGRAMS. SEE SCHEDULE O.

    Expenses $2,157,904 · Revenue $393,486

  • COTS EMERGENCY SHELTERS: SEE SCHEDULE O.

    Expenses $2,004,818

  • RECUPERATIVE CARE: COTS RECUPERATIVE CARE PROGRAM OFFERS POST-HOSPITALIZATION CARE FOR HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS WHO NEED A SPACE TO RECOVER FROM INJURY OR ILLNESS. OFFERING CASE MANAGEMENT, ON-SITE HEALTHCARE, AND WRAP-AROUND SERVICES, THE RECUPERATIVE CARE PROGRAM PROVIDES SAFE, DIGNIFIED CARE FOR HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS WHILE REDUCING HOSPITAL RE-ADMISSIONS AND ER VISITS. IN FY2024-25, COTS REMODELED THE RECUPERATIVE CARE SPACE TO EXPAND THE PROGRAM, INCREASING BED AVAILABILITY FROM 6 TO 18. DURING THIS TIME, 56 PEOPLE RECEIVED RECUPERATIVE CARE SERVICES THROUGH THE PROGRAM.

    Expenses $553,805

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.

  • MARK KRUG

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANDREA PFEIFFER

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STEFANIE GIANI

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHAPLAIN RAYMOND DOUGHERTY

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CAMILLE KAZARIAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BEN LEROI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANNIE NICOL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • THAIS RAINS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • WENDI THOMAS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BILL GABBERT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DENNIS POCEKAY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KAREN NELSON

    DIRECTOR THROUGH 10/2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PHYLLIS RICH

    DIRECTOR THROUGH 10/2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRISTINA CABRAL

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $225,890
    From this org
    $219,419
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,471
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $219,419
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,471
    Filer's total
    $225,890

  • MAUREEN VITTORIA

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $183,306
    From this org
    $167,640
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,666
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $167,640
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,666
    Filer's total
    $183,306

  • CATHLEEN HIGGINS

    CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $138,313
    From this org
    $127,264
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,049
    Hours/week
    40

  • MYRDA GOAN

    SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST

    Total calculated
    $102,850
    From this org
    $102,064
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $786
    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. 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
    $14,700,221
    Expenses
    $10,627,499
    Contributions
    $13,499,701
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,992,953
    Expenses
    $8,259,995
    Contributions
    $7,514,584
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,905,747
    Expenses
    $7,665,122
    Contributions
    $6,290,421
    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
    $7,056,136
    Expenses
    $6,937,560
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,428,371

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,157,553
    Expenses
    $6,355,764
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,968,982

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,497,399
    Expenses
    $6,298,893
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,521,831

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,855,640
    Expenses
    $5,983,671
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,841,331

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,691,641
    Expenses
    $5,251,840
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,004,470

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,695,051
    Expenses
    $4,789,252
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,414,808

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,377,863
    Expenses
    $4,847,585
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,353,059

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,489,725
    Expenses
    $4,298,128
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,914,714

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,880,207
    Expenses
    $4,273,017
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,229,095

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,215,359
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,651,413

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.

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.

  • DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

    $4,805 raised

    2024 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $2,919 to charity

  • DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

    $7,020 raised

    2022 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $4,403 to charity

  • DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

    $6,095 raised

    2021 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $3,924 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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.