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RIVER OF LIFE FOUNDATION

EIN 20-5427262 SANTA CLARA, CA

Revenue 2024
$18,012,411
Expenses 2024
$17,964,619

Program services were 98.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A23
Classification
1000
Street
1177 LAURELWOOD RD

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

To improve the quality of life for people across the world by providing food, supplies, and education to transform communities in need

  • Source and acquire food and other products and distribute to needy people through charitable agencies or directly through programs

    Expenses $16,967,262 · Grants $16,288,868

  • Support West Africa Orphanage

    Expenses $482,210 · Grants $482,210

  • Support Disaster Relief and Education.

    Expenses $211,677 · Grants $211,677

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.

  • Sam Loh

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $73,992
    From this org
    $73,992
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ruth Chon

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $63,642
    From this org
    $63,642
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Chih-Wei Chao

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Yao-Chung Hsu

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jonathan Gauss

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Vivian Yeh

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Vivian Jin

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mae Gauss

    Controller

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $18,012,411
    Expenses
    $17,964,619
    Contributions
    $17,973,707
    Grants paid
    $16,982,755
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $17,830,879
    Expenses
    $17,782,888
    Contributions
    $17,818,645
    Grants paid
    $16,851,016
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $14,822,624
    Expenses
    $14,827,220
    Contributions
    $14,822,447
    Grants paid
    $14,039,339

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
    $11,599,827
    Expenses
    $11,346,409
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,212,027

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,039,431
    Expenses
    $5,724,634
    Assets (EOY)
    $958,609

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $923,216
    Expenses
    $892,854
    Assets (EOY)
    $643,812

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $969,900
    Expenses
    $961,765
    Assets (EOY)
    $613,450

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,092,040
    Expenses
    $1,027,365
    Assets (EOY)
    $605,315

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,301,393
    Expenses
    $1,376,613
    Assets (EOY)
    $540,640

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,273,824
    Expenses
    $1,252,876
    Assets (EOY)
    $615,860

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,332,919
    Expenses
    $1,277,383
    Assets (EOY)
    $594,912

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,041,785
    Expenses
    $808,863
    Assets (EOY)
    $539,376

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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