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PITZER COLLEGE COSTA RICA

EIN 32-0152376 CLAREMONT, CA

Revenue 2024
$100,000
Expenses 2024
$121,302

Program services were 85.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B194
Classification
1000
Street
101 S MILLS AVE

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

To own real property in Costa Rica for the benefit of the educational curriculum of Pitzer College and in support of the Firestone Center for Restoration Ecology.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Support Pitzer College educational programs in Costa Rica.

  • Own and operate the Firestone Center for Restoration Ecology in Costa Rica in conjunction with Pitzer College educational programs in Costa Rica.

    Expenses $103,584

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Strom C Thacker

    President

    Total calculated
    $714,200
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $531,615
    Other
    $182,585
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $525,615 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $6,000 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $63,000 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $119,585 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $714,200 related

  • Laura Schaefer

    COO, VP and Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $495,159
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $377,612
    Other
    $117,547
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $377,612 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $44,945 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $72,602 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $495,159 related

  • Allen M Omoto - VP of

    Academic Affairs/Dean of Faculty

    Total calculated
    $381,044
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $303,753
    Other
    $77,291
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $303,753 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $38,073 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $39,218 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $381,044 related

  • Melanie Lacy Sorenson

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $160,218
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $127,910
    Other
    $32,308
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $127,910 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $15,300 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $17,008 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $160,218 related

  • Mia Alonzo

    Controller

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 4 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $100,000
    Expenses
    $121,302
    Contributions
    $100,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,145
    Expenses
    $127,646
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $112,580
    Contributions
    $0
    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
    $24,000
    Expenses
    $122,888
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,712,931

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $61,385
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,574,049

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $88,353
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,568,685

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $84,375
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,565,118

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $68,118
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,470,795

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $58,364
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,456,171

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $41,252
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,414,682

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $74,669
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,411,858

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $42,393
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,417,781

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $62,341
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,419,224

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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 SOUNK.

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.