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COMMUNITY COUNSEL

EIN 81-4128457 SANTA ANA, CA

Revenue 2025
$1,297,016
Expenses 2025
$903,046

Program services were 86.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
2121 N TUSTIN 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 · 2025

Mission

Through advocacy, education, and the provision of free and low-cost legal services, the ELDR Center strives to ensure dignity and justice for members of our communities who are elderly, living with disabilities, or experiencing homelessness.

  • Aging with Dignity and Independence (Estate Planning & Probate): We help older adults and families plan for incapacity, protect assets, and preserve homeownership through estate planning services and community-based workshops. Our work is designed to prevent the loss of generational wealth and avoid unnecessary probate or public benefits disruptions. This includes our Securing Futures Beyond 18 workshop, which supports families of youth with developmental disabilities as they transition into adulthood by providing hands-on assistance to complete conservatorship petitions. Together, these services ensure continuity of care and decision-making while protecting housing stability and long-term financial security.

    Expenses $375,734

  • Impact Litigation: We pursue strategic, high-impact cases to address systemic injustice and hold institutions accountable. In 2025, this work focused on preventing the unlawful seizure and destruction of property belonging to individuals experiencing homelessness, alongside broader efforts to protect civil rights at scale.

    Expenses $133,596

  • Special Education: We advocate for children with disabilities to access appropriate educational services and remain in stable school placements. Our work includes IEP advocacy, due process representation, and expulsion prevention, helping students receive the support they need to succeed and transition into adulthood.

    Expenses $133,596

  • Disability Rights: We protect the rights of people with disabilities and individuals experiencing homelessness through direct legal services focused on housing stability, access to benefits, and conditions of confinement. This includes preventing unlawful evictions, addressing disability discrimination in shelters and housing, advocating for accommodations, and challenging practices such as unlawful vehicle towing that disproportionately impact vulnerable communities.

    Expenses $133,596

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Carol Sobel

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.5

  • Akhil Sheth

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Heidi Plummer

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jordana Furman

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7.5

  • Mimi Ahn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Reza Torkzadeh

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Rebekah Thomas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dan Sasse

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Corey Steady

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Porsche Clark

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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
    $1,297,016
    Expenses
    $903,046
    Contributions
    $991,898
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $859,710
    Expenses
    $701,541
    Contributions
    $502,609
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $678,207
    Expenses
    $561,037
    Contributions
    $317,708
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $457,679
    Expenses
    $416,340
    Contributions
    $240,864
    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
    $380,593
    Expenses
    $331,638
    Assets (EOY)
    $369,485

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $513,750
    Expenses
    $279,848
    Assets (EOY)
    $410,769

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $815,789
    Expenses
    $750,369
    Assets (EOY)
    $90,840

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $199,636
    Expenses
    $195,384
    Assets (EOY)
    $53,246

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $94,243
    Expenses
    $77,939
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,948

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 2016

Tax period
1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
William Wise
Mailing address
1535 E 17th Street Suite 104Santa Ana CA 92705
Website
www.eldrcenter.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 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

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.