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THE LIVING DESERT

EIN 95-3385354 PALM DESERT, CA

Revenue 2024
$47,987,318
Expenses 2024
$28,847,289

Program services were 88.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C340
Classification
1000
Street
47900 PORTOLA AVE

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).

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.

  • BILL APPEL

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.6

  • CRAIG MCCOLLAM

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.1

  • SANDRA COOPER WOODSON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.8

  • ALLEN MONROE

    PRESIDENT/CEO & ASST. SEC

    Total calculated
    $696,748
    From this org
    $686,827
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,921
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $606,827
    Bonus
    $80,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,900
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21
    Filer's total
    $696,748

  • DEBORAH CHAPMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7.3

  • SUSAN COOPER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • MARYLYNN GLADSTEIN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • PHIL HASBROUCK

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • CANDACE HOLZGRAFE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.8

  • H EARL HOOVER II

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • SUZ HUNT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • MICHAEL KINER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • JAISHRI MEHTA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.7

  • JNEIL NELSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.4

  • PETER SCHEER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • SALLY SIMONDS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.6

  • BILL SIMPKINS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.7

  • PHILLIP K SMITH JR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.8

  • MARY LOU SOLOMON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.2

  • LARRY SPICER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.1

  • SAM SPINELLO

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4

  • NANCY L STEGEHUIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8.7

  • DWIGHT MIDDENDOF

    CFO & VP OF TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

    Total calculated
    $203,646
    From this org
    $192,317
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,329
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $192,317
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,769
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,560
    Filer's total
    $203,646

  • ROXANNA BREITIGAN

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $175,866
    From this org
    $164,989
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,877
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $164,989
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,317
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,560
    Filer's total
    $175,866

  • JAMES DANOFF-BURG

    VICE PRESIDENT OF CONSERVATION

    Total calculated
    $160,886
    From this org
    $154,327
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,559
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,327
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,559
    Filer's total
    $160,886

The first 25 listed. 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 — 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $47,987,318
    Expenses
    $28,847,289
    Contributions
    $11,340,448
    Grants paid
    $464,689
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $41,500,614
    Expenses
    $25,539,071
    Contributions
    $10,287,778
    Grants paid
    $448,790
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $30,580,354
    Expenses
    $20,547,217
    Contributions
    $13,145,504
    Grants paid
    $199,424

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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

    $0 raised

    2024 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $0 to charity

  • RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

    $1,180 raised

    2021 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $526 to charity

  • RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

    $700 raised

    2020 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $315 to charity

  • RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

    $1,500 raised

    2019 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $860 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 10 September 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.