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DOWNTOWN EMERGENCY SERVICE CENTER

EIN 91-1275815 SEATTLE, WA

Revenue 2024
$103,440,905
Expenses 2024
$100,163,670

Program services were 79.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
F300
Classification
1000
Street
515 3RD 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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

DESC helps people with the complex needs of homelessness, substance use disorders, and serious mental illness achieve their highest potential for health and well-being through comprehensive services, treatment, and housing.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To help people with complex needs through comprehensive services, treatment, and housing.

  • Clinical Programs: DESC is dedicated to serving people experiencing homelessness and is a state licensed provider of behavioral healthcare treatment for people with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders. Integrated mental health, substance use disorder and co-occurring disorders treatment is available in DESC's shelters, is interwoven into its supportive housing programs, and is available through stand-alone programs at DESC's clinical offices or elsewhere in the community. In 2024, DESC's clinical programs served 6,988 people.

    Expenses $40,865,805 · Grants $197,622 · Revenue $1,948,175

  • Total Housing Programs: In 2024, DESC operated 1566 permanent supportive housing apartments in seventeen project-based programs ranging from 40 units to 190 Units, all of which feature 24/7 onsite support staff and integrated clinical services. DESC also manages, subsidizes and services 49 Master-leased Market rate "scattered site" housing units with intensive case management and other support services as needed. Another 250+ clients are supported with case management and rent subsidies controlled by DESC. DESC's units house individuals coming from homelessness, all of whom have special needs including mental illness, physical disability, and involvement with the criminal justice system and/or substance use problems. (Continued on Schedule O)DESC provides a range of supportive services to help residents remain stably housed. Social service programs are funded by a combination of city, county, state and federal grants, as well as by private fundraising.

    Expenses $34,149,312 · Grants $508,171 · Revenue $6,190,710

  • Housing Development: DESC develops and operates subsidized supportive housing for individuals experiencing homelessness with disabilities.

    Expenses $4,615,969 · Revenue $1,422,208

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.

  • Sandeep Kaushik

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Nina Maisterra

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Veronica Kavanagh

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nicholas Lovejoy

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Larry J Smith

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Clark Kimerer

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ron Wright

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Patti Coletindall

    Board Member (Until Jan)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Terry Carroll

    Board Member (Until Jan)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Susan Byrnes

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Peter Mcgough

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jon Scholes

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Derrick Belgarde

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brian Surratt

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karen Breckenridge

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brianna Thomas

    Board Member (From Mar)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Shireesha Dhanireddy

    Board Member (From Mar)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • J Peter Shapiro

    Board Member (From Mar)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Daniel Malone

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $231,460
    From this org
    $202,904
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,556
    Hours/week
    40 + 0.1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $202,904
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,090
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,637
    Filer's total
    $231,631

  • Jennifer Tripp

    CFO (Until Dec)

    Total calculated
    $213,297
    From this org
    $201,135
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,162
    Hours/week
    40 + 0.1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $201,135
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $2,209
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,473
    Filer's total
    $213,817

  • Patrick Gehring

    CFO (From Dec)

    Total calculated
    $2,664
    From this org
    $2,664
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 0.1 related

  • Bertha Malle

    Residential Counselor

    Total calculated
    $226,387
    From this org
    $211,116
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,271
    Hours/week
    84

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $211,116
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,968
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,458
    Filer's total
    $226,542

  • Gash Bantifru

    On Call Counselor

    Total calculated
    $201,439
    From this org
    $196,803
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,636
    Hours/week
    80

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $196,803
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,636
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $201,439

  • Richard Waters MD

    Agency Medical Director

    Total calculated
    $302,377
    From this org
    $302,377
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $302,377
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $374
    Filer's total
    $302,751

  • Jim Hopfenbeck MD

    Medical Director - CSC

    Total calculated
    $274,083
    From this org
    $255,647
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,436
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $255,647
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,065
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,893
    Filer's total
    $274,605

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, 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
    $103,440,905
    Expenses
    $100,163,670
    Contributions
    $91,810,210
    Grants paid
    $705,793
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $92,193,786
    Expenses
    $92,063,161
    Contributions
    $82,910,653
    Grants paid
    $3,552,960
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $75,907,445
    Expenses
    $76,540,352
    Contributions
    $65,632,921
    Grants paid
    $7,542,159

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
    $63,387,531
    Expenses
    $64,698,247
    Assets (EOY)
    $82,577,717

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $66,068,562
    Expenses
    $63,302,659
    Assets (EOY)
    $79,174,350

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $50,608,772
    Expenses
    $50,524,686
    Assets (EOY)
    $57,929,514

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $44,662,412
    Expenses
    $43,508,549
    Assets (EOY)
    $55,511,291

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $35,804,946
    Expenses
    $37,373,266
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,955,190

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $34,725,859
    Expenses
    $33,446,555
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,518,690

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $29,974,398
    Expenses
    $29,057,718
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,552,943

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $29,479,306
    Expenses
    $28,692,689
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,247,433

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $25,217,995
    Expenses
    $24,677,782
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,187,506

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $20,564,664
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,598,062

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

Related partnerships on its 2024 return

  • DESC 15th LLLP

    Related · Low income housing · WA · 0.01% owned · share of assets $3,130,874 · general or managing partner

  • DESC Burien LLLP

    Related · Low income housing · WA · 0.01% owned · share of income -$247 · share of assets $2,300,992 · general or managing partner

  • DESC Greenlake LLLP

    Related · Low income housing · WA · 0.01% owned · share of income -$598,589 · share of assets $12,717,763 · general or managing partner

  • DESC 143 LLLP

    Related · Low income housing · WA · 0.01% owned · share of income -$86 · share of assets $97,626 · general or managing partner

  • DESC Plum LLLP

    Related · Low income housing · WA · 0.01% owned · share of income -$86 · share of assets $304,537 · general or managing partner

  • DESC 22ND LLLP

    Related · Low income housing · WA · 0.01% owned · share of income -$78 · share of assets $343,801 · general or managing partner

  • DESC N96 Supportive Housing LLLP

    Related · Low income housing · WA · 0.01% owned · share of income -$89 · share of assets $1,817,725 · general or managing partner

  • DESC Estelle Supportive Housing

    Related · Low income housing · WA · 0.01% owned · share of income -$63 · share of assets $268,904 · general or managing partner

  • DESC Interbay Supportive Housing LP

    Related · Low income housing · WA · 0.01% owned · share of income -$49 · share of assets $538,692 · general or managing partner

  • DESC Delridge Supportive Housing LP

    Related · Low income housing · WA · 0.01% owned · share of income -$37 · share of assets $504,896 · general or managing partner

  • DESC Aurora Supportive Housing LP

    Related · Low income housing · WA · 0.01% owned · share of income -$32 · share of assets $692,422 · general or managing partner

  • DESC Cascade Supportive Housing LP

    Related · Low income housing · WA · 0.01% owned · share of income -$37 · share of assets $212,325 · general or managing partner

  • DESC Woodland LLLP

    Related · Low income housing · WA · 0.01% owned · share of assets $5,017,664 · general or managing partner

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.