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PAINTED BRAIN INC

EIN 81-3945595 LOS ANGELES, CA

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Revenue 2024
$2,817,982
Expenses 2024
$2,557,285

Program services were 70.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
F30
Classification
1000
Street
777 SOUTH ALAMEDA 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 · 2024

Mission

PAINTED BRAIN CREATES LASTING COMMUNITY-BASED SOLUTIONS TO MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES AND THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL INJUSTICES THROUGH ART, ADVOCACY AND ENTERPRISE.

  • PAINTED BRAIN CREATES LASTING COMMUNITY-BASED SOLUTIONS TO MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES AND THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL INJUSTICES THROUGH ART, ADVOCACY AND ENTERPRISE.

    Expenses $1,790,292 · Grants $35,150 · Revenue $1,889,859

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Rayshell Chambers

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $173,977
    From this org
    $173,977
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $173,977
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $173,977

  • David Leon

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $68,366
    From this org
    $68,366
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    32

  • Bettina Elstro

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $62,369
    From this org
    $30,764
    From related orgs
    $31,605
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Nyla Christian

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Elyn Saks

    TREASURER

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,817,982
    Expenses
    $2,557,285
    Contributions
    $923,074
    Grants paid
    $35,150
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,627,420
    Expenses
    $2,515,950
    Contributions
    $1,063,284
    Grants paid
    $266,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,987,790
    Expenses
    $1,975,301
    Contributions
    $1,006,052
    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
    $1,878,381
    Expenses
    $1,588,305
    Assets (EOY)
    $496,868

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,076,901
    Expenses
    $1,204,719
    Assets (EOY)
    $325,412

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $925,423
    Expenses
    $881,419
    Assets (EOY)
    $227,319

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $354,365
    Expenses
    $355,686
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,662

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $83,742
    Expenses
    $63,878
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,864

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

  • Mental Health Advocacy Srvcs

    $266,500

    2023 General Support

  • MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SRVCS

    $6,550

    2024 GENERAL SUPPORT

Where these grants went next →

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 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.