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EIN 94-3390149 MILPITAS, CA

Revenue 2024
$4,911,900
Expenses 2024
$5,354,343

Program services were 79.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
1000
Street
913 HANSON CT

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.

  • CAROL EMIG

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ERICA K WOOD

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MICHELLE TORGERSON

    DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $355,717
    From this org
    $322,442
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $33,275
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $321,366
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,076
    Deferred
    $19,468
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,807
    Filer's total
    $355,717

  • STERLING SPEIRN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • GIHANI FERNANDO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JENNIFER BLATZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KAREN CALLOO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KIRK LAW

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KRIS PERRY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MEREDITH CROOKS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • PORTIA KENNEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JENNIFER FORD

    VP, FINANCE & OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $189,376
    From this org
    $177,807
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,569
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $177,440
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $367
    Deferred
    $10,646
    Nontaxable benefits
    $923
    Filer's total
    $189,376

  • JONATHAN THORNTON

    VP, STRATEGIC GROWTH & REVENUE

    Total calculated
    $206,622
    From this org
    $167,212
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,410
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $166,851
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $361
    Deferred
    $5,452
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,958
    Filer's total
    $206,622

  • MICHELLE HYMAN

    SVP, PROGRAMS & PARTNERSHIPS

    Total calculated
    $204,168
    From this org
    $150,892
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $53,276
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $150,396
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $496
    Deferred
    $9,734
    Nontaxable benefits
    $43,542
    Filer's total
    $204,168

  • PATRICIA COGLEY

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR, STRATEGIC INNOVATION & IMPACT (UNTIL DECEMBER 2024)

    Total calculated
    $123,061
    From this org
    $100,115
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,946
    Hours/week
    40

  • REBECCA CHRYSTAL

    MANAGING DIRECTOR, PROGRAMS & PARTNERSHIPS

    Total calculated
    $199,248
    From this org
    $154,044
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $45,204
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $153,551
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $493
    Deferred
    $9,750
    Nontaxable benefits
    $35,454
    Filer's total
    $199,248

  • SHELECE DRAPER

    DIRECTOR, BUSINESS OPERATIONS (UNTIL DECEMBER 2024)

    Total calculated
    $165,717
    From this org
    $140,306
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,411
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $139,195
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,111
    Deferred
    $5,906
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,505
    Filer's total
    $165,717

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
    $4,911,900
    Expenses
    $5,354,343
    Contributions
    $1,905,167
    Grants paid
    $279,251
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,700,015
    Expenses
    $4,782,378
    Contributions
    $3,793,137
    Grants paid
    $371,996
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,999,126
    Expenses
    $4,680,618
    Contributions
    $1,559,768
    Grants paid
    $182,740

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

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 2022 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 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.