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THE HUMAN UTILITY

EIN 47-2717067 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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Revenue 2025
$134,164
Expenses 2025
$464,642

Program services were 90.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1200
Street
548 MARKET 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

12 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

Mission

TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO PEOPLE IN NEED THROUGH THE DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS TO BE USED TO PAY UTILITY BILLS. TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN INDIVIDUALS FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING OR DEVELOPING THEIR CAPABILITIES FOR ASSISTING PEOPLE IN NEED.

  • EMERGENCY WATER BILL ASSISTANCE - THE HUMAN UTILITY'S EMERGENCY WATER BILL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM PROVIDES EMERGENCY WATER BILL ASSISTANCE TO FAMILIES IN MICHIGAN, MARYLAND, AND FLORIDA WHO APPLY FOR ASSISTANCE EITHER DIRECTLY OR THROUGH COMMUNITY NONPROFIT PARTNERS. IF APPROVED FOR ASSISTANCE, THE ASSISTANCE GRANTS ARE PAID DIRECTLY TO THE APPROPRIATE PUBLIC WATER UTILITY ON THE APPLICANT'S BEHALF. THE AVERAGE AMOUNT OF ASSISTANCE TENDS TO BE APPROXIMATELY $520.

    Expenses $421,409 · Grants $196,714

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.

  • Tiffani Ashley Bell

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $127,374
    From this org
    $127,374
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kate Courteau

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anil Dash

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $134,164
    Expenses
    $464,642
    Contributions
    $134,045
    Grants paid
    $196,714
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $199,100
    Expenses
    $430,844
    Contributions
    $180,099
    Grants paid
    $178,654
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $335,162
    Expenses
    $397,449
    Contributions
    $300,881
    Grants paid
    $167,457
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $548,407
    Expenses
    $467,462
    Contributions
    $546,714
    Grants paid
    $205,479

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
    $883,298
    Expenses
    $397,459
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,590,148

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,271,189
    Expenses
    $367,807
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,104,309

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $456,294
    Expenses
    $275,578
    Assets (EOY)
    $185,285

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
Tiffani Ashley Bell
Mailing address
287 Lester AvenueOakland CA 94606
Website
http://humanutility.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2018, reinstated 15 May 2018.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.