DISABILITY VOICES UNITED

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

8939 S SEPULVEDA BLVD SUITE 110-196

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

• Education and TrainingIN 2024, DISABILITY VOICES UNITED TRAINED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES,FAMILY MEMBERS AND PROFESSIONALS ON A RANGE OF TOPICS. DVU LED THE EMERGING LEADERS PROGRAM TO TRAIN SELF-ADVOCATES AND FAMILY MEMBERS, PARTICULARLY PEOPLE OF COLOR, ON LEADERSHIP AND SYSTEMIC ADVOCACY SKILLS. DVU TRAINED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ON CALIFORNIA'S SELF-DETERMINATION PROGRAM THROUGH BI-MONTHLY MEETINGS AND SUPPORT GROUPS. DVU ALSO LED MONTHLY MEETINGS AROUND ENSURING ACCESS TO COMMUNICATION SUPPORTS FOR PEOPLE WITH COMMUNICATION DISABILITIES. FINALLY, DVU CREATED THE SUPPORTED DECISION-MAKING TRAINING AND INFORMATION CENTER.

  Expenses $426,094

• Movement BuildingIN 2024, DISABILITY VOICES UNITED ORGANIZED PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND FAMILYMEMBERS AND LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR BUILDING A DISABILITY RIGHTS AND JUSTICE MOVEMENT IN CALIFORNIA. DVU LAUNCHED OUR AMBASSADOR PROGRAM AND RECRUITED DOZENS OF SELF-ADVOCATES AND FAMILY MEMBERS TO HELP PROVIDER OVERSIGHT OF REGIONAL CENTERS. DVU SPOKE AT VARIOUS COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS' MEETINGS AND ASSEMBLED DIVERSE COALITIONS REPRESENTING THE BROAD RANGE OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND FAMILIES AFFECTED BY DISCRIMINATION AND DISPARITIES.

  Expenses $163,760

• AdvocacyIN 2024, DISABILITY VOICES UNITED EDUCATED THE PUBLIC AND ADVOCATED FOR SYSTEMICCHANGES, INCLUDING IMPROVING TRANSPARENCY IN THE REGIONAL CENTER SYSTEM. DVU SUCCESSFULLY MADE REGIONAL CENTERS SUBJECT TO THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RECORDS ACT. DVU ALSO ADVOCATED FOR ELIMINATION OF PERSISTENT RACIALAND GEOGRAPHIC DISPARITIES IN THE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SYSTEM AND INCREASED OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY OVER SYSTEMS THAT SERVE PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. DVU TESTIFIED BEFORE VARIOUS POLICY COMMITTEES TO CALL FOR EQUITY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY.

  Expenses $157,468

• Narrative ChangeIN 2024, DISABILITY VOICES UNITED LED EFFORTS TO CHANGE THE NARRATIVE AROUND A RANGE OF DISABILITY ISSUES AND ELIMINATE SOCIETAL ABLEISM. DVU WORKED TO CHANGE THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF DISABILITY THROUGH OUR SELF-ADVOCATES SPEAKERS BUREAU MADE UP OF OVER 150 PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WHOM WE HAVE TRAINED IN PRESENTATION SKILLS. DVU ALSO APPEARED EXTENSIVELY IN THE MEDIA ON A RANGE OFDISABILITY ISSUES WITH EXTENSIVE COVERAGE OF THE RACIAL, ETHNIC AND GEOGRAPHICDISPARITIES FOR PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES.

  Expenses $94,431

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.

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

  $949,572

  Expenses

  $962,660

  Contributions

  $808,367

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $972,847

  Expenses

  $939,435

  Contributions

  $899,328

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $614,857

  Expenses

  $609,381

  Contributions

  $603,823

  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

  $657,409

  Expenses

  $441,229

  Assets (EOY)

  $550,565

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $260,434

  Expenses

  $184,905

  Assets (EOY)

  $308,243

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $203,313

  Expenses

  $131,453

  Assets (EOY)

  $117,226

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 2018

Tax period

1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018

Principal officer

Rick Wood

Mailing address

1230 Rosecrans Avenue Suite 650Manhattan Beach CA 90266

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 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

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

• CALIFORNIA COMMUNICATIONS ACCESS FOUNDATION

  $99,853

  2024 · TO FURTHER SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION

• CALIFORNIA COMMUNICATIONS ACCESS FOUNDATION

  $91,710

  2022 · Strategic Planning for DVU to become a model of leadership inclusion of people with communication disabilities and a resource to other orgs

• ONEOC

  $47,500

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY

  $45,000

  2022 · TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF DISABILITY VOICES UNITED

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $10,000

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

• HEALTH ACCESS FOUNDATION

  $7,500

  2024 · SUPPORT HEALTH ADVOCACY THROUGH SUBCONTRACT PAYMENTS TO DISABILITY VOICES UNITED FOR THE FIGHT FOR OUR HEALTH CAMPAIGN.

• FORGOOD INC

  $5,820

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED

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