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THE TEEN PROJECT INC

EIN 30-0421837 VAN NUYS, CA

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Revenue 2023
$11,834,374
Expenses 2023
$10,934,397

Program services were 97.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P72
Classification
1000
Street
14530 SYLVAN 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).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The Teen Project, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is privately funded non-profit California corporation. It provides housing, education, sober living and mentoring to youth ages 18 to 24 (transitional age youth). See Schedule O for further details.

  • Freehab reduced Beds from 74 to 24 this fiscal year. Freehab specializes in providing residential substance abuse treatment to the at risk population. Freehab focuses on females 18-35 that are at risk, aging out of foster care and victims of human trafficking. Freehab also has an additional 16 beds for Crisis Residential Treatment. The focus at the CRTP is treating acute mental health.

    Expenses $6,033,381

  • Veras Sanctuary is the only licensed residential drug treatment site in Orange County dedicated to victims of human trafficking. Vera's Sanctuary's residential treatment drug treatment ASAM levels 3.1, 3.3 and 3.5 and social model detox services to prior foster youth and pregnant young women lacking family support who has been victims of human trafficking and are 18-26 years old. VSW also administers the Sanctuary Recovery Center which is a 6 bed Residential SUD treatment program. The SRC serves adolescents ages 13-17.

    Expenses $4,388,951

  • Lake Forest Sober College House - free room and board and full life support for homeless and prior foster young women interested in pursuing in higher education. This is a two year program in a beautiful home in a family neighborhood. The young women in our program are in college or trade schools, they have paid internships in their field, an automobile attainment program and savings for life program. In addition, there is an Outpatient component to the services provided in the area.

    Expenses $229,924

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lauri L Burns

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $264,156
    From this org
    $250,015
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,141
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $250,015
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $6,501
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,640
    Filer's total
    $264,156

  • Bert Paras

    COO

    Total calculated
    $221,133
    From this org
    $210,280
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,853
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $210,280
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $5,921
    Nontaxable benefits
    $4,932
    Filer's total
    $221,133

  • Anasheh Safarian

    Dir. of Operations

    Total calculated
    $186,754
    From this org
    $178,661
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,093
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $178,661
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $4,467
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,626
    Filer's total
    $186,754

  • Jewelana Kayanan

    Senior Program Dir

    Total calculated
    $141,224
    From this org
    $132,630
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,594
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jeffery K Rubenstein

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Darren P Calbay

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rochelle Price

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nicholas Kochek

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $11,834,374
    Expenses
    $10,934,397
    Contributions
    $11,909,753
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,224,016
    Expenses
    $10,724,838
    Contributions
    $9,187,627
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,796,558
    Expenses
    $11,315,477
    Contributions
    $9,865,880
    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
    $10,544,756
    Expenses
    $8,771,882
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,234,105

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,501,192
    Expenses
    $7,474,450
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,661,699

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,527,202
    Expenses
    $7,415,063
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,781,254

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,175,840
    Expenses
    $5,463,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,309,549

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,316,824
    Expenses
    $5,404,884
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,374,241

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,566,965
    Expenses
    $4,178,885
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,098,123

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,577,778
    Expenses
    $1,858,253
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,722,989

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,999,073
    Expenses
    $1,787,581
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,176,122

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,144,274
    Expenses
    $1,247,741
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,837,419

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $105,490
    Expenses
    $210,180
    Assets (EOY)
    $687,466

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

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 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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.