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DON BUFORD EDUCATIONAL SPORTS INSTITUTE

EIN 81-0940929 SHERMAN OAKS, CA

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Revenue 2025
$25,000
Expenses 2025
$11,075

Program services were 93.7% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B20
Classification
1200
Street
15412 VALLEY VISTA BLVD

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 · 2025

Primary exempt purpose

ESI provides k-12 Compton Unified School District students sports and after school programs for physical, social and educational development. At present, we instruct more than 3,000 students throughout the calendar school year. ESI furnishes all equipment and uniforms for student baseball and softball leagues.

  • The Compton Unified School District contracted with ESI to create baseball & softball leagues and provide instruction for K-12 district students. ESI's program benefitted more than 3,000 students who participated throughout the calendar school year. ESI furnished equipment (gloves, bats, balls, etc.) and managed the sports leagues. No participating members or volunteers received any compensation. At the conclusion of the year, ESI hosted a 250-person student banquet for participants.

    Expenses $10,375

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Don Buford

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Doug Takaragawa

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Doug Allen

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • George Hinshan

    Manager

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Daryl Buford

    Vice President Business & Legal Affairs

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $25,000
    Expenses
    $11,075
    Contributions
    $25,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $25,000
    Expenses
    $18,700
    Contributions
    $25,000
    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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022

Tax period
1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
Principal officer
Doug Takaragawa
Mailing address
15412 Valley Vista BlvdSherman Oaks CA 91403

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 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

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2023, reinstated 15 May 2023.
  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2019, reinstated 15 May 2019.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.