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PACIFIC NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION

EIN 47-5552178 SANTA MONICA, CA

Revenue 2023
$9,704,579
Expenses 2023
$6,786,309

Program services were 87.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
U05
Classification
8000
Street
1301 20TH ST STE 250

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

TO PROMOTE ADVANCES IN NEUROSCIENCE CLINICAL CARE AND RESEARCH THROUGH NOVEL TREATMENT APPROACHES THAT OPTIMIZE BRAIN HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE; TO TRAIN THE NEXT GENERATION OF NEUROSCIENTISTS AND CLINICIANS, AND TO EDUCATE PATIENTS AND THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE ON VITAL NEUROSCIENCE ISSUES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROMOTE ADVANCES IN NEUROSCIENCE CLINICAL CARE THROUGH NOVEL RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND TRAINING.

  • BRAIN HEALTH: BRAIN HEALTH CENTER IS A CLINICAL AND RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR PATIENTS WITH DEMENTIA AND ASSOCIATED NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS, AS WELL AS PROBLEMS OF MEMORY LOSS, DEPRESSION, AND ANXIETY.

    Expenses $3,443,835

  • TRIP: A CLINICAL AND RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR PATIENTS WITH DIAGNOSED BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS AND THE USE OF PSYCHOLEDICS IN TREATING THOSE DISORDERS.

    Expenses $999,824

  • NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH: THE NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER INTEGRATES BASIC SCIENCE, PRECLINICAL, AND CLINICAL RESEARCH TO IMPROVE THE UNDERSTANDING OF BRAIN TUMOR BIOLOGY WITH A GOAL OF COMBINING LABORATORY AND CLINICAL DATA TO OPEN NEW AVENUES TOWARD THERAPIES.

    Expenses $888,731

  • OTHER PROGRAMMATIC CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE (HEAD AND NECK ONCOLOGY, FACIAL PAIN AND PARALYSIS, MOVEMENT DISORDERS, STROKE, AND SKULL BASE TUMORS).

    Expenses $633,222 · Revenue $413,238

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • DANIEL F KELLY MD

    PRESIDENT AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related

  • CHESTER F GRIFFITHS MD

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related

  • HOWARD R KRAUSS MD

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • DONNA TUTTLE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • GARNI BARKHOUDARIAN MD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • NEIL MARTIN MD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • TOM GEISER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • ROGER WACKER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • TED SCHNEIDER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • MARY ELLEN KANOFF

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • LISA NESBITT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • MELISSA COLEMAN

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $216,345
    From this org
    $203,344
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,001
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $140,104
    Bonus
    $63,240
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,172
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,829
    Filer's total
    $216,345

  • JENNIFER BRAMEN

    SR. RESEARCH SCIENTIST

    Total calculated
    $197,291
    From this org
    $160,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,091
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,200
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $22,132
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,959
    Filer's total
    $197,291

  • RITA JETHANI

    DIRECTOR OF MARKETING

    Total calculated
    $208,058
    From this org
    $163,424
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $44,634
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $144,674
    Bonus
    $18,750
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $14,177
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,457
    Filer's total
    $208,058

  • SOMAYEH MEYSAMI

    RESEARCH SCIENTIST

    Total calculated
    $168,269
    From this org
    $155,097
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,172
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,097
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,204
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,968
    Filer's total
    $168,269

  • KAREN MILLER

    SR. DIRECTOR LIFESTYLE PRO

    Total calculated
    $329,880
    From this org
    $298,529
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,351
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $298,529
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $30,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,351
    Filer's total
    $329,880

  • JESSICA SERNA

    MANAGER, CLINICAL RESEARCH

    Total calculated
    $115,416
    From this org
    $115,416
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $9,704,579
    Expenses
    $6,786,309
    Contributions
    $9,267,579
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,637,365
    Expenses
    $9,379,917
    Contributions
    $6,378,188
    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
    $7,389,883
    Expenses
    $10,375,072
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,198,617

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,212,704
    Expenses
    $8,682,903
    Assets (EOY)
    $44,018,934

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,030,351
    Expenses
    $5,632,308
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,787,547

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,030,620
    Expenses
    $3,043,999
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,515,222

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,267,060
    Expenses
    $1,253,330
    Assets (EOY)
    $576,177

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $749,510
    Expenses
    $316,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $471,330

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

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.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related partnerships on its 2022 return

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.