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DESERT STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING INC

EIN 82-1523284 PHOENIX, AZ

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Revenue 2024
$553,824
Expenses 2024
$663,844

Program services were 21.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E42
Classification
1200
Street
5501 N 19TH AVE STE 420

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

Our mission is to create equitable access to reproductive and sexual health care while centering Black and Indigenous people of color.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Our mission is to create equitable access to reproductive and sexual healthcare while centering Black and Indigenous people of color. Our work is rooted in four main priorities. 1. Direct Family Planning and Gender-Affirming services for adults. 2. Train the next generation of abortion providers within the Reproductive Justice framework that focuses on the whole person, providing a unique understanding of the barriers historically marginalized people may encounter in medical communities where they've felt excluded. 3. Deliver educational content and programs that help people from historically marginalized communities access reproductive health care and exercise autonomy over their bodies and lives. 4. Educate and build relationships with local policy makers, advocates, and directly impacted community members towards and Arizona that provides the conditions for people to freely decide when and how to form families and raise children.

  • The Health Justice Clinic is the largest program/service. Funds raised for the acquisition provided infrastructure support to keep essential services available to the communities it had been serving for a decade.

    Expenses $380,512 · Grants $135,000 · Revenue $190,965

  • Next Generation Abortion Providers Program trains medical students, residents, and attending physicians in reproductive health care with an emphasis on abortion training. Clinical instruction includes abortion, contraception, early pregnancy loss, other common women's health conditions, and care of transgender adults. To date, people from 21 states and 3 regions of Canada have traveled to Phoenix to be trained. We apply a reproductive justice lens to our work, so trainees have and experience very different from their traditional clinical rotations. We believe that learning about abortion in an environment where abortion occurs alongside general well-woman care increases student awareness and understanding that abortion is health care. In turn, they are inspired to advocate for women's reproductive healthcare access and delivery, and are empowered to become advocates within their own communities. 2 - 4 week rotations can be scheduled at the Desert Star Health Justice Clinic. We are a preferred site for the Medical Students for Choice Reproductive Health Externship Program and now have partnerships with several additional organizations as referral sources for training. 5 people were trained over 16 total training weeks in 2024. Impacted by the political landscape and looming 1864 total abortion ban that was ultimately repealed, we paused our training program as we awaited how the litigation and additional efforts by the attorney general would impact our ability to provide abortion services, and thereby train. Two trainee institutions canceled rotations for their learners during that time.

    Expenses $56,928 · Grants $30,750 · Revenue $725

  • Doulas 4 Change continuing education program for Black Doulas completed it's inaugural training cohort in the spring of 2024. The program mission is to educate, organize, and build leadership and power among Black birthers, birthworkers and their communities to influence policies and practices that decrease Black maternal mortality and morbidity in Arizona and support pregnant people's self determination in whatever pregnancy outcome they choose. Our goal in creating a doula-promotora model is to strengthen the skills of these needed community health workers to advocate for the communities they serve. Six doulas completed the pilot program that began January 2024 and ended in May 2024. The data indicates that increased access to community-based doula care can help improve birth outcomes and reduce the higher rates of maternal morbidity and mortality among women of color in the United States, and more specifically Arizona. Empowering Black doulas with advocacy tools, peer support, policy education, and reproductive justice framework will prepare them to support families in a way they have not been trained for before. By understanding the intersectionality of what affects the lives of Black families, how to respond to crisis under trauma informed care, and providing quality support and resources to families and each other, Black doulas are perfectly positioned to advance birth justice.

    Expenses $45,000 · Grants $45,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Stacey Stewart

    Chairperson, Board of Directors

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DeShawn Taylor

    President and CEO

    Total calculated
    $150,176
    From this org
    $150,176
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $147,757
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,419
    Filer's total
    $150,176

  • Rachel Beam

    Treasurer, Board of Directors

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Enjolie Lafaurie

    Director At Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sharon Smith

    Secretary, Board of Directors

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Evan Masingill

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Michelle Reed

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • May Tiwamangkala

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Harlie Jackson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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
    $553,824
    Expenses
    $663,844
    Contributions
    $383,234
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $423,822
    Expenses
    $292,726
    Contributions
    $435,127
    Grants paid
    $28,333
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $171,137
    Expenses
    $192,227
    Contributions
    $169,811
    Grants paid
    $12,375

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $100,542
    Expenses
    $51,749
    Assets (EOY)
    $57,095

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 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
DeShawn Taylor
Mailing address
5501 N 19th AvePhoenix AZ 85015
Website
www.desertstarfp.org

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

  • Desert Star Institute for Family Planning LLC

    $25,000

    2023 Funds were subgranted to mitigate the cost of abortion services for people who met the financial criteria of less than 150% of federal poverty limit or received state benefits.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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.