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BERKELEY INSTITUTE

EIN 46-3482813 BERKELEY, CA

Revenue 2024
$452,970
Expenses 2024
$421,061

Program services were 75.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B11
Classification
1200
Street
2134 ALLSTON WAY

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

THE INSTITUTE EXPLORES AND PASSES ON THE PRINCIPLES OF REASON AND ORDER THAT UNDERLIE ACADEMIC INQUIRY.

  • THE BERKELEY INSTITUTE IS COMMITTED TO PREPARING STUDENTS FOR POSITIONS OF ACADEMIC AND INTELLECTUAL LEADERSHIP. ITS PROGRAMS HELP THEM ACHIEVE AN INTEGRATED EDUCATION AND PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR ACADEMIC CAREERS THROUGH EXPLORATION OF CLASSICAL TRADITIONS AND A SUSTAINED, OPEN, AND RIGOROUS ENCOUNTER WITH CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT. BY THESE MEANS, WE PREPARE STUDENTS TO JOIN THE LIFE OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY CONFIDENTLY, THOUGHTFULLY, AND WITH INTEGRITY. FINALLY, THE BERKELEY INSTITUTE SEEKS TO FORM A COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS BOTH AT BERKELEY AND ELSEWHERE TO SUPPORT THESE EFFORTS AND EXCHANGE IDEAS THROUGH CONFERENCES, AND PROGRAMS; AND AT SUPPORTING THE RESEARCH OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND YOUNGER FACULTY WHO PROMISE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO THE CULTURE OF AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION.

    Expenses $318,549 · Revenue $438,947

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.

  • Fred Clark

    CHAIRMAN AND TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Luis Tellez

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Karl Van Bibber

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Dan Lahl

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Nathan George

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Bryan Bradford

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Mark Refermat

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Marissa Ramirez De Chanlatte

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Dena Fehrenbacher

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, TREASU

    Total calculated
    $125,190
    From this org
    $125,190
    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
    $452,970
    Expenses
    $421,061
    Contributions
    $438,947
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $387,279
    Expenses
    $377,283
    Contributions
    $377,901
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $454,582
    Expenses
    $325,408
    Contributions
    $454,552
    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
    $364,943
    Expenses
    $258,179
    Assets (EOY)
    $207,781
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $312,500
    Expenses
    $306,251
    Assets (EOY)
    $135,167
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $327,503
    Expenses
    $358,627
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,700
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $379,345
    Expenses
    $341,414
    Assets (EOY)
    $120,824
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $351,700
    Expenses
    $291,500
    Assets (EOY)
    $84,205
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $268,600
    Expenses
    $303,147
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,656
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $268,700
    Expenses
    $231,564
    Assets (EOY)
    $58,407
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $187,344
    Expenses
    $236,152
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,000

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

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.