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EIN 85-3094256 SOLANA BEACH, CA

Revenue 2025
$1,379,645
Expenses 2025
$873,888

Program services were 57.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X20
Classification
7000
Street
533 PACIFIC 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 · 2025

Mission

TO ENGAGE IN RELIGIOUS, CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • HELP PEOPLE PURSUE SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION, TO NURTURE THE LIFE OF THE MIND AND FOLLOW TRUTH WHEREVER IT LEADS; TO LIVE FOR OTHERS AND INSPIRE YOUNG PEOPLE TO LIVES OF SERVICE AND TO MEET HUMBLY IN THE WOUNDS OF OURSELVES AND OUR WORLD.

    Expenses $501,544 · Revenue $1,351,022

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • John Ortberg

    FOUNDER

    Total calculated
    $307,600
    From this org
    $175,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $132,000
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $175,600
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $132,000
    Filer's total
    $307,600

  • William Voge

    SECY/TREAS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Ronald Johnson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pat Gelsinger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,379,645
    Expenses
    $873,888
    Contributions
    $1,351,022
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,215,619
    Expenses
    $739,186
    Contributions
    $1,180,326
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $623,683
    Expenses
    $661,427
    Contributions
    $620,021
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $689,672
    Expenses
    $550,685
    Contributions
    $689,672
    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
    $742,702
    Expenses
    $296,792
    Assets (EOY)
    $644,450

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $226,428
    Expenses
    $27,888
    Assets (EOY)
    $198,540

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

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 as related by

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.