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DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY

EIN 95-3497922 COSTA MESA, CA

Revenue 2024
$313,538
Expenses 2024
$396,130

Program services were 76.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2100
Street
151 KALMUS DR M-5

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

DSAOC'S MISSION IS TO CREATE A PLACE FOR CONNECTION, INFORMATION AND HOPE FOR PEOPLE WITH DOWN SYNDROME AND THEIR FAMILIES THROUGHOUT GREATER ORANGE COUNTY, TO PROMOTE DOWN SYNDROME AWARENESS THROUGH COMMUNITY OUTREACH, AND TO OFFER PROGRAMS, SERVICES AND SUPPORT THAT AIM TO EMPOWER INDIVIDUALS WITH DOWN SYNDROME TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. OUR VISION IS TO BE A ONE-STOP-SHOP FOR ALL THINGS DOWN SYNDROME RELATED, AND TO BE A MODEL ORGANIZATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLABORATION AND DOWN SYNDROME AWARENESS, TO CHANGE PERCEPTIONS AND CHANGE LIVES.

  • DSAOC CENTER - A PLACE TO BELONG THE DSAOC CENTER, LOCATED IN COSTA MESA, IS THE VENUE FOR MANY OF OUR ACTIVITIES, EVENTS, SEMINARS, AND SUPPORT GROUPS. IN ADDITION, MUCH OF THE DSAOC'S WORK INCLUDES OUTREACH AND COLLABORATION WITH AN EXPANDING NETWORK OF EDUCATORS, HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS, RESEARCHERS, THERAPISTS, EMPLOYERS, POLICYMAKERS, AND MANY OTHERS IN THE COMMUNITY. OUR MISSION IS TO CREATE A PLACE FOR CONNECTION, INFORMATION AND HOPE FOR PEOPLE WITH DOWN SYNDROME AND THEIR FAMILIES. AT OUR LOCAL SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS AND SOCIAL EVENTS, FAMILIES FIND COMFORT, SUPPORT AND LONG-LASTING FRIENDSHIPS. DSAOC ALSO PROVIDES A FULL RANGE OF SERVICES IN SPANISH AND, INCREASINGLY, IN OTHER LANGUAGES.

    Expenses $266,436 · Revenue $37,097

  • TEEN/ADULT PROGRAMTHE TEEN/ADULT PROGRAM INCLUDES WEEKLY AND MONTHLY CLASSES AND ACTIVITIES THAT FOCUS ON SOCIAL, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELLNESS. THE TEEN/ADULT PROGRAM ALSO FEATURES AN AWESOME ADVOCATES GROUP THAT PARTICIPATES IN COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES AND HELPS PLAN FUTURE ACTIVITIES. DSAOC ALSO HAS A VARIETY OF DANCES AND SOCIAL MIXERS FOR THIS AGE GROUP.

    Expenses $21,068 · Revenue $48,139

  • ORANGE COUNTY BIKE CAMPSINCE 2008, DSAOC HAS BEEN HELPING CHILDREN, TEENS AND ADULTS WITH DOWN SYNDROME AND OTHER DISABILITIES LEARN TO RIDE A CONVENTIONAL 2-WHEEL BIKE. THROUGH A COLLABORATION WITH ICANSHINE AND UCP-OC, THE ORANGE COUNTY BIKE CAMP IS HELD ANNUALLY DURING THE SUMMER AND SUPPORTS 40 PARTICIPANTS EACH CAMP. BENEFITS TO THIS CAMP INCLUDE, ENHANCED HEALTH AND CONFIDENCE, IMPROVED ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIAL AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES WITH TYPICAL PEERS, INCREASED PARTICIPATION IN FAMILY ACTIVITIES, WITH FEWER SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS, PROUD, SELF-CONFIDENT, INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUALS RIDING REGULAR BICYCLES SAFELY IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS, AND IMPROVED TRANSPORTATION INDEPENDENCE FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS.

    Expenses $13,786 · Revenue $21,150

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.

  • KRISTIN GRIFFIN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JAMIE BREWER

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • STEVE CEARLEY

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • AMY ERSKINE-CARMONA

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • ERIC DORAN MS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHAEL G KING ESQ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ESTEBAN LOPEZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR BECCA OBERFIELD DNP CPNP

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KELLY SACKETT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LAUREN VANDENBERG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JONATHAN D SANTORO MD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KELLIE A PEREZ-TUCHOWSKI

    EXECUTIVE DIR.

    Total calculated
    $64,131
    From this org
    $64,131
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $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
    $313,538
    Expenses
    $396,130
    Contributions
    $192,746
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $325,453
    Expenses
    $340,499
    Contributions
    $237,118
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $269,009
    Expenses
    $283,290
    Contributions
    $204,138
    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
    $357,189
    Expenses
    $256,695
    Assets (EOY)
    $742,121

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $263,705
    Expenses
    $307,915
    Assets (EOY)
    $677,341

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $334,233
    Expenses
    $311,730
    Assets (EOY)
    $690,047

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $429,230
    Expenses
    $315,066
    Assets (EOY)
    $666,141

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $340,154
    Expenses
    $327,879
    Assets (EOY)
    $558,037

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $339,074
    Expenses
    $333,487
    Assets (EOY)
    $534,983

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $286,741
    Expenses
    $310,019
    Assets (EOY)
    $546,416

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $467,596
    Expenses
    $300,553
    Assets (EOY)
    $570,186

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $377,107
    Expenses
    $293,524
    Assets (EOY)
    $380,884

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $389,963
    Assets (EOY)
    $336,092

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

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.

  • RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

    $1,582 raised

    2021 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $747 to charity

  • RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

    $350 raised

    2020 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $75 to charity

  • RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

    $1,500 raised

    2019 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $920 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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.