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TRAVELING STORIES

EIN 32-0298884 SAN DIEGO, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2023
$121,350
Expenses 2023
$418,403

Program services were 73.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
2000
Street
4880 CHARLES LEWIS WAY STE 302

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

Traveling Stories empowers children to achieve their dreams by providing access to literacy support and mentorship.

  • The Virtual StoryTent matches students with trained mentors for weekly, one-on-one reading support via video. Students read and play reading games with their mentor and earn Book Bucks, which can be redeemed for prizes.

    Expenses $307,967

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.

  • Jennifer Abma

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mandy Mabe

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Emily Moberly

    CEO & Founder

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Rebekah Cahalin

    Pres

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cara Morrison

    Treasurer

    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $121,350
    Expenses
    $418,403
    Contributions
    $113,234
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $121,350
    Expenses
    $418,403
    Contributions
    $113,234
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $277,740
    Expenses
    $329,395
    Contributions
    $242,196
    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
    $328,486
    Expenses
    $406,346
    Assets (EOY)
    $371,708
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $719,683
    Expenses
    $303,512
    Assets (EOY)
    $497,887
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $396,953
    Expenses
    $450,490
    Assets (EOY)
    $35,012
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $297,500
    Expenses
    $311,191
    Assets (EOY)
    $84,548
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $214,659
    Expenses
    $184,989
    Assets (EOY)
    $166,364

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 2014

Tax period
1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer
Emily Moberly
Mailing address
8552 Holden RdSantee CA 92071
Website
www.travelingstories.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 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

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.