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RANCHO MIRAGE LIBRARY AND OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION

EIN 27-3559025 RANCHO MIRAGE, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2023
$743,134
Expenses 2023
$522,842

Program services were 91.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B117
Classification
1200
Street
71100 HIGHWAY 111

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 · 2023

Mission

TO FUND-RAISE FOR SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING FOR RANCHO MIRAGE LIBRARY & OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION PROGRAMS AND COLLECTIONS.

  • PROVIDED SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING FOR RANCHO MIRAGE LIBRARY & OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION PROGRAMS AND COLLECTIONS.

    Expenses $479,315

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Stephen Downs

    MAYOR (NOV-JUN)

    Total calculated
    $71,594
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $40,223
    Other
    $31,371
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

  • Robert Moon

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Peter Samuels

    BOARD MEMBER (JUNE)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alison Soltysiak

    SECRETARY (JUL-FEB)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Leslie Usow

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Christine Hughes

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Patrice Merritt

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • James Sowa

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mary Willis-Yoshioka

    SECRETARY (FEB-JUN)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Richard Kite

    MAYOR (JUL-OCT)

    Total calculated
    $68,386
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $39,151
    Other
    $29,235
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

  • Gary Galton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lucy Tagmyer

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Aaron Espinoza

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $301,451
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $255,733
    Other
    $45,718
    Hours/week
    10 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $212,573 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $43,160 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $6,500 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $40,868 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $303,101 related

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $743,134
    Expenses
    $522,842
    Contributions
    $711,808
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $499,274
    Expenses
    $468,281
    Contributions
    $470,393
    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
    $503,778
    Expenses
    $337,482
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,110,142

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $270,966
    Expenses
    $231,276
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,066,903

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $452,664
    Expenses
    $352,907
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,027,307

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $387,493
    Expenses
    $335,168
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,928,866

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $333,813
    Expenses
    $342,603
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,827,883

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $196,433
    Expenses
    $270,349
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,847,376

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $242,012
    Expenses
    $305,569
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,903,214

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $276,073
    Expenses
    $317,835
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,962,450

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $233,492
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,012,171

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.

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.

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 2023 return

  • CITY OF RANCHO MIRAGE

    GOVERNMENTAL UNIT · CITY GOVERNMENT · CA

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.