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ASSOCIATION FOR BETTER LIVING AND EDUCATION

EIN 95-4188814 LOS ANGELES, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2024
$3,029,163
Expenses 2024
$3,226,321

Program services were 93.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q193
Classification
1000
Street
7065 HOLLYWOOD 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 · 2024

Mission

TO RID THE WORLD OF ITS MOST DEVASTATING SOCIAL ILLS -- DRUGS, CRIME, ILLITERACY AND IMMORALITY.

  • ABLE DIRECTS, COORDINATES AND SUPPORTS THE EFFORTS OF NARCONON INTERNATIONAL, APPLIED SCHOLASTICS INTERNATIONAL, CRIMINON INTERNATIONAL AND THE WAY TO HAPPINESS FOUNDATION TO IMPROVE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ABLE PROGRAMS AND STANDARDS, TO EXPAND THE NUMBER OF SOCIAL BETTERMENT CENTERS AND GROUPS, AND TO ASSIST COMMUNITIES WORLDWIDE WITH SOCIAL BETTERMENT PROGRAMS AND SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS THEIR LOCAL CHALLENGES.

    Expenses $2,381,786 · Grants $1,969,795 · Revenue $1,578,064

  • ABLE CREATES AND PUBLISHES MATERIALS FOR USE IN SOCIAL BETTERMENT PROGRAMS. SUCH PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE DRUG REHABILITATION MATERIALS, ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES, FORMS AND MANUALS TO ASSIST STAFF OF NARCONON CENTERS TO EFFECTIVELY REHABILITATE ADDICTS, AND EDUCATION BOOKS, STUDY GUIDES, BOOKLETS AND LITERACY MATERIALS FOR USE IN SCHOOLS, TUTORING CENTERS AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO CREATE COMPETENT LIFELONG LEARNERS. AND IN THE FIELD OF MORAL CHARACTER ABLE'S PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE INMATE CORRESPONDENCE COURSES, STUDY BOOKLETS AND MATERIALS FOR CRIMINAL REFORM WHILE ADDITIONALLY ASSISTING THE WAY TO HAPPINESS FOUNDATION TO PUBLISH THE BOOK THE WAY TO HAPPINESS IN MORE THAN 117 LANGUAGES IN OVER 185 NATIONS INTERNATIONALLY.

    Expenses $78,816 · Grants $996 · Revenue $30,716

  • ABLE CONDUCTS BROAD PUBLIC INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS PROMOTING EDUCATION AND LITERACY, DRUG AWARENESS AND ADDICTION PREVENTION AND REHABILITATION AS WELL AS COMMON SENSE MORAL VALUES BY REACHING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THROUGH WEBSITES, INTERNET ADVERTISEMENTS, EDUCATIONAL ARTICLES, PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS FOR EACH OF ITS INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL BETTERMENT ORGANIZATIONS AS WELL AS MANY OF THEIR LICENSEES.

    Expenses $553,679

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.

  • Shannon Walker

    PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $9,748
    From this org
    $5,333
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,415
    Hours/week
    60

  • Elena Filoscia

    TRUSTEE/NON-OFFICER EMPLOYEE

    Total calculated
    $9,374
    From this org
    $5,309
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,065
    Hours/week
    60

  • Leidy Johanna Paez

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Lynne Shape

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Sarah Feshbach

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Jessica Hochman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Joan Tofil

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $8,524
    From this org
    $4,841
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,683
    Hours/week
    60

  • Timothy Lomas

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $8,729
    From this org
    $4,871
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,858
    Hours/week
    60

  • Rubina Qureshi

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $8,701
    From this org
    $5,018
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,683
    Hours/week
    60

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,029,163
    Expenses
    $3,226,321
    Contributions
    $1,263,577
    Grants paid
    $1,970,791
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,840,843
    Expenses
    $1,824,147
    Contributions
    $109,266
    Grants paid
    $233,156
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,836,899
    Expenses
    $2,011,717
    Contributions
    $124,187
    Grants paid
    $267,485

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
    $2,011,796
    Expenses
    $1,583,052
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,400,562

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,947,577
    Expenses
    $1,636,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,269,958

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

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

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 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.