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EIN 84-4735516 PALO ALTO, CA

Revenue 2024
$2,103,398
Expenses 2024
$2,287,914

Program services were 48.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R99
Classification
2000
Street
855 EL CAMINO REAL STE 13A PMB 401

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).

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.

  • ROBERT LEE GORDON IV

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $184,904
    From this org
    $178,162
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,742
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $178,162
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,742
    Filer's total
    $184,904

  • KAREEMA THOMAS

    Chief Strategy Officer

    Total calculated
    $130,305
    From this org
    $126,809
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,496
    Hours/week
    40

  • WARSAME AYAN

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $107,664
    From this org
    $104,965
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,699
    Hours/week
    40

  • OKORIE CHIDIMA

    DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $105,679
    From this org
    $100,477
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,202
    Hours/week
    40

  • Groce Frederik

    Co-Founder and Board Co-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sykes Sydney

    Co-Founder and Board Co-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cummings Jackson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Asem Mike

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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 — 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
    $2,103,398
    Expenses
    $2,287,914
    Contributions
    $272,456
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,149,533
    Expenses
    $2,287,050
    Contributions
    $272,456
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,118,725
    Expenses
    $1,333,765
    Contributions
    $19,855
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,934,441
    Expenses
    $1,872,678
    Contributions
    $238,934
    Grants paid
    $23,449

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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

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 10 September 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.