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COURAGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE

EIN 27-0343297 LOS ANGELES, CA

Revenue 2024
$228,004
Expenses 2024
$456,996

Program services were 93.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P40
Classification
1000
Street
445 S FIGUEROA ST STE 2400

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

COURAGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE'S MISSION IS TO DEFEND AND EXTEND ECONOMIC JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND CORPORATE AND POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY THROUGH PUBLIC EDUCATION, STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP-DEVELOPMENT TRAINING.

  • YOUR POWER IS YOUR VOTE IS COURAGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE'S INITIATIVE TO SUPPORT VOTERS AND FUTURE VOTERS IN NAVIGATING THE ELECTORAL PROCESS, PROVIDING CALIFORNIANS WITH AN EASY-TO-NAVIGATE RESOURCE WHERE USERS CAN REGISTER TO VOTE, SIGN UP FOR UPDATES ON STATE AND COUNTY VOTING PROCEDURES, GET REMINDERS OF KEY DATES, AND FIND ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS.

    Expenses $427,266 · Revenue $228,004

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.

  • JAY CHOTIRMAL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GILLIAN MORSHEDI

    CHAIR/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LINDSAY GARDNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOANN LO

    SECRETARY/TREASURER/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BULMARO VICENTE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL LIGHTY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LISA GARCIA BEDOLLA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • IRENE KAO

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $169,588
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $169,588
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $169,588 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $169,588 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
    $228,004
    Expenses
    $456,996
    Contributions
    $228,004
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $612,569
    Expenses
    $396,981
    Contributions
    $612,569
    Grants paid
    $20,245
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $157,465
    Expenses
    $245,158
    Contributions
    $157,465
    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

    Revenue
    $444,099
    Expenses
    $377,981
    Assets (EOY)
    $175,470

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $360,139
    Expenses
    $468,696
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,841

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $544,806
    Expenses
    $516,836
    Assets (EOY)
    $162,429

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $488,989
    Expenses
    $597,592
    Assets (EOY)
    $117,980

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $492,479
    Expenses
    $388,418
    Assets (EOY)
    $206,913

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $462,189
    Expenses
    $557,112
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,852

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $321,953
    Expenses
    $478,867
    Assets (EOY)
    $197,775

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,035,804
    Expenses
    $853,274
    Assets (EOY)
    $425,646

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

  • HUB PROJECT

    $16,250

    2023 CASH CONTRIBUTION

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 2024 return

  • COURAGE CALIFORNIA

    501(C)(4) · ADVOCATE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, ECONOMIC JUSTICE & POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY · CA

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