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GONZAGA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION

EIN 23-7052227 SPOKANE, WA

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Revenue 2024
$2,896,387
Expenses 2024
$2,289,900

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

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B11
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 3528

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

SEE SCHEDULE O

Activities or mission (Part I)

SUPPORT THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEGAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PROVIDE LOANS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND GRANTS.

  • PROVIDED SUPPORT TO GONZAGA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW FOR THE SALARIES AND BENEFITS FOR THE FREDERICK N. AND BARBARA T. CURLEY CHAIR IN COMMERCIAL LAW, THE JOHN J. HEMMINGSON PROFESSOR IN CIVIL LIBERTIES, THE J. DONALD AND VA LENA SCARPELLI CURRAN PROFESSOR OF LEGAL ETHICS, THE SMITHMOORE P. MYERS CHAIR OF LAW, THE NORMAN AND RITA ROBERTS ENDOWED SCHOLAR AND THE CLUTE/HALLORAN FACULTY FELLOWSHIP. ALL OF THE FACULTY IN THESE POSITIONS ARE EMPLOYED BY GONZAGA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW. ALSO PROVIDED SUPPORT TO GONZAGA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW FOR SALARIES AND BENEFITS FOR THE CENTER OF LAW, ETHICS & COMMERCE, THE IMMIGRATION CLINIC, THE INSTITUTE FOR LAW SCHOOL TEACHING AND THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FOUNDATION WHO ARE EMPLOYED BY GONZAGA UNIVERSITY.

    Expenses $666,694 · Grants $666,694

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $607,108 · Grants $607,108

  • PROVIDED SUPPORT TO GONZAGA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW FOR MISCELLANEOUS SUPPLIES, MEETINGS, AND EVENTS BASED ON DONOR INTENT. PROVIDED SUPPORT TO GONZAGA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY FOR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT TRAVEL AND RESEARCH, INCLUDING CONFERENCE FEES, MEMBERSHIP DUES AND RESEARCH MATERIAL.

    Expenses $457,680 · Grants $264,276

  • PROVIDED SUPPORT TO GONZAGA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW FOR SALARIES AND BENEFITS OF VARIOUS CENTERS, CLINICS, AND CLE, WHO ARE EMPLOYED BY GONZAGA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW. SPONSORED PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES ATTENDED BY STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF, AND PUBLIC.

    Expenses $413,770 · Grants $413,770 · Revenue $6,073

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • Jacob Rooksby

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $438,287
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $384,402
    Other
    $53,885
    Hours/week
    2 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $341,618 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $42,784 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $29,325 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $24,560 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $438,287 related
  • Joe Smith

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $395,046
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $335,094
    Other
    $59,952
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $316,869 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $18,225 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $29,299 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $30,653 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $395,046 related
  • Sarah Guzman

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $121,556
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $96,443
    Other
    $25,113
    Hours/week
    15 + 25 related
  • Leon Strawn

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $96,684
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $80,595
    Other
    $16,089
    Hours/week
    3 + 40 related
  • Tamarae Cooney Leong

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Daniel Hulsizer

    CHAIR (THRU 07/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Fonda Jovick

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joe Lincoln

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Keith Wells

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tim Fennessy

    DIRECTOR (THRU 11/2024)

    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. 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
    $2,896,387
    Expenses
    $2,289,900
    Contributions
    $1,482,663
    Grants paid
    $1,951,848
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,043,632
    Expenses
    $2,210,083
    Contributions
    $2,660,886
    Grants paid
    $1,988,775
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $911,192
    Expenses
    $1,876,977
    Contributions
    $829,875
    Grants paid
    $1,694,729

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
    $3,721,030
    Expenses
    $1,763,075
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,516,870
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,337,300
    Expenses
    $2,196,050
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,452,021
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,889,997
    Expenses
    $1,596,041
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,791,946
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,871,633
    Expenses
    $1,196,771
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,420,503
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,298,414
    Expenses
    $993,534
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,032,270
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,470,793
    Expenses
    $1,544,528
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,307,627
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,697,364
    Expenses
    $1,772,132
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,068,885
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,722,232
    Expenses
    $988,483
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,200,092

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

  • 2024 SCHOLARSHIPS TO LAW STUDENTS; SALARIES AND BENEFITS FOR LAW ENDOWED CHAIRS AND SCHOLARS, FACULTY, AND STAFF; REMODELING AND FURNITURE FOR LAW SCHOOL BUILDING; INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT FEE

  • 2023 SCHOLARSHIPS TO LAW STUDENTS; SALARIES AND BENEFITS FOR LAW ENDOWED CHAIRS AND SCHOLARS, FACULTY, AND STAFF; REMODELING AND FURNITURE FOR LAW SCHOOL BUILDING; INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT FEE

  • 2022 SCHOLARSHIPS TO LAW STUDENTS; SALARIES AND BENEFITS FOR LAW ENDOWED CHAIRS AND SCHOLARS, FACULTY, AND STAFF; REMODELING AND FURNITURE FOR LAW SCHOOL BUILDING; INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT FEE

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Grants received

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 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 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.