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PRIVACY LAW SCHOLARS FOUNDATION

EIN 47-1968890 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2025
$42,211
Expenses 2025
$54,138

Program services were 99.7% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
2000
Street
200 MCALLISTER ST

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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Primary exempt purpose

To serve as the world's premier academic incubator for rigorous, interdisciplinary legal scholarship. The foundation fosters collaboration among privacy law scholars, policymakers, civil society advocates, and technology practitioners to workshop, critique, and advance emerging research at the intersection of information privacy law, data protection policy, and technology.

  • The foundation successfully organized and executed the annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC). This flagship event facilitates intensive, peer-led workshops designed to critique in-progress manuscripts on privacy, surveillance, Artificial Intelligence, and technology law.Active Workshop Format: Bypassed traditional panel presentations by utilizing dedicated expert discussants to introduce papers, ensuring deep, constructive participant feedback.Interdisciplinary Reach: Convened an international assembly of legal academics alongside scholars from computer science, critical race studies, information studies, and sociology.Early-Career Mentorship: Facilitated dedicated mentorship pre-conferences and junior scholar workshops to directly support pre-tenure researchers and advance equity within the technology law pipeline.Scholarly Excellence: Administered the peer-reviewed Reidenberg-Kerr Award recognizing outstanding research contributions from rising, pre-tenure legal scholars

    Expenses $53,958

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Kirsten Martin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    8
  • Ari Ezra Waldman

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    8
  • Kate Weisburd

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    8
  • Danielle Citron

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    8
  • Woodrow Hartzog

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    8
  • Paul Ohm

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    8

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $42,211
    Expenses
    $54,138
    Contributions
    not reported
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $36,785
    Expenses
    $59,823
    Contributions
    $5,000
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $39,507
    Expenses
    $66,942
    Contributions
    $15,000
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $52,019
    Expenses
    $3,617
    Contributions
    $25,000
    Grants paid
    not reported

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $84,146
    Expenses
    $5,701
    Assets (EOY)
    $117,685
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $15,230
    Expenses
    $10,443
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,240
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $241
    Expenses
    $11,872
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,453
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $1,876
    Expenses
    $14,618
    Assets (EOY)
    $48,263
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $50,468
    Expenses
    $7,161
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,005
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $305
    Expenses
    $30,510
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,698

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
Chris Jay Hoofnagle
Mailing address
344 Boalt HallBerkeley CA 94720

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.