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REDISCOVER CENTER INC

EIN 20-0192617 LOS ANGELES, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,375,174
Expenses 2024
$1,473,938

Program services were 85.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P30
Classification
1000
Street
12958 W WASHINGTON 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

REDISCOVER WAS FOUNDED IN 2002 AND INCORPORATED IN 2004 TO IMPROVE CHILDREN'S ART EDUCATION BY USING RECYCLED MATERIALS. REDISCOVER HAS OPERATED THE REDISCOVER CENTER IN VENICE, A 3,000 SF PUBLIC YOUTH MAKERSPACE. MAKERSPACES ARE SHARED FACILITIES STOCKED WITH TOOLS AND MATERIALS WHERE PARTICIPANTS CAN LEARN, MAKE, AND SHARE THEIR PROJECTS AND EXPERTISE. WE PROVIDE MAKERSPACE SERVICES AND HANDS-ON STEAM CLASSES, CAMPS, FIELD TRIPS, EXHIBITS, FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES, AND DISTANCE LEARNING RESOURCES. THESE PROGRAMS SERVE K-8 STUDENTS THROUGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS, YOUTH AGES 5-15 THROUGH WORKSHOPS AND PROGRAMS AT OUR MAKERSPACE, AND YOUTH AND ADULTS IN COMMUNITY PROGRAMS SUCH AS CARDBOARD CITY AND FREE ART ACTIVITIES AT FARMERS MARKETS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

REDISCOVER'S MISSION IS TO PROVIDE MAKERS WITH THE TOOLS, RESOURCES, AND CONFIDENCE TO ENGAGE IN CREATIVE REUSE AND SELF-EXPRESSION. WE EDUCATE YOUTH OF ALL LEVELS OF EXPERTISE IN TRANSFORMING DISCARDED MATERIALS INTO ART, FUNCTIONAL OBJECTS, AND TOOLS FOR LEARNING. WE SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER AS HANDS-ON CREATORS, PROBLEM-SOLVERS, COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS, AND STEWARDS OF THE EARTH.

  • STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS CONDUCTED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS ABOUT TINKERING, ART AND SUSTAINABLITY AT THE CENTER, AT REDISCOVER CLASSES AND EVENTS THROUGHOUT LOS ANGELES AND ONLINE. REDISCOVER CENTER DIVERTED MATERIALS FROM LANDFILLS WHILE EDUCATING BUSINESSES ABOUT CREATIVELY REUSING THEIR EXCESS MATERIALS AND INCORPORATING THEM INTO ART, TINKERING AND OTHER CURRICULAR USES. REUSED MATERIALS WERE DISTRIBUTED TO SCHOOLS, INSTITUTIONS, ARTISTS, AND FAMILIES FOR ARTISTIC AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES.

    Expenses $1,257,840 · Revenue $980,921

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.

  • LINDA SOLOMON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CATHY MILLSTEIN

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DONNA TIOCAO

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AARON KRAMER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TRACEY RODEN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DANIELLE DUNCAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MAX NISHIMURA

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DORI FRIEDMAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RORY SLOAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TREVOR GLILLAND

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JONATHAN BIJUR

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $104,613
    From this org
    $104,613
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,375,174
    Expenses
    $1,473,938
    Contributions
    $394,222
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,532,635
    Expenses
    $1,236,866
    Contributions
    $726,449
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $887,244
    Expenses
    $915,364
    Contributions
    $401,764
    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
    $824,514
    Expenses
    $886,809
    Assets (EOY)
    $210,926

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $518,108
    Expenses
    $509,339
    Assets (EOY)
    $274,985

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $613,905
    Expenses
    $585,352
    Assets (EOY)
    $116,316

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $554,271
    Expenses
    $531,902
    Assets (EOY)
    $87,763

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $409,921
    Expenses
    $417,079
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,394

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $287,529
    Expenses
    $290,092
    Assets (EOY)
    $72,552

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $282,643
    Expenses
    $252,476
    Assets (EOY)
    $80,115

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $141,627
    Expenses
    $136,112
    Assets (EOY)
    $45,940

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $113,129
    Expenses
    $117,179
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,980

  • 2011 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $104,827
    Expenses
    $103,483
    Assets (EOY)
    $55,030

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.

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