- Revenue 2024
- $3,636,162
- Expenses 2024
- $3,529,098
Program services were 90.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- S50
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 4900 E CONANT 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).
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.
-
Michelle Byerly
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $130,844
- From this org
- $120,168
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $10,676
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Todd Gallinger
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Norma Stein
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Rob Feldman
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Dora Jacildo
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Susan Jacobs
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Lea Gerber
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Candice Wood
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Chris Bates
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Danita Humphrey
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Brett Bradbury
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Marni Wratchford
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kifaya Dawud
Board Member
- 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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2024
- Revenue
- $3,636,162
- Expenses
- $3,529,098
- Contributions
- $3,254,262
- Grants paid
- $1,963,196
-
2023
- Revenue
- $3,914,310
- Expenses
- $3,725,347
- Contributions
- $3,569,798
- Grants paid
- $2,331,895
-
2022
- Revenue
- $3,884,135
- Expenses
- $3,639,396
- Contributions
- $3,615,412
- Grants paid
- $2,432,523
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
-
$781,049
2022 BEST START GRANT
-
$516,186
2023 BEST START GRANT
-
$498,925
2024 Best Start Grant
-
$481,618
2024 Best Start Grant
-
$481,417
2022 BEST START GRANTS
-
$418,090
2023 BEST START GRANT
-
$187,219
2022 VARIOUS COMMUNITY GRANTS
-
$148,892
2023 Best Start and Youth Grant
-
$105,000
2024 Best Start Grant
-
$95,000
2024 Best Start & Youth Power Grants
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
-
$38,626
2024 RETURN OF BEST START COMMUNITY CHANGE FUNDS RELATED TO COMPLETED PROJECTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF REGRANT AS PART OF YEAR 8 FUND POOL.
-
$13,380
2023 General Support
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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.