- 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.
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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.
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Fred ClarkFRED CLARK
CHAIRMAN AND TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Luis TellezLUIS TELLEZ
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Karl Van BibberKARL VAN BIBBER
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Dan LahlDAN LAHL
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Nathan GeorgeNATHAN GEORGE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Bryan BradfordBRYAN BRADFORD
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Mark RefermatMARK REFERMAT
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Marissa Ramirez De ChanlatteMARISSA RAMIREZ DE CHANLATTE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Dena FehrenbacherDENA 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
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2024
- Revenue
- $452,970
- Expenses
- $421,061
- Contributions
- $438,947
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $387,279
- Expenses
- $377,283
- Contributions
- $377,901
- Grants paid
- $0
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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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $364,943
- Expenses
- $258,179
- Assets (EOY)
- $207,781
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $312,500
- Expenses
- $306,251
- Assets (EOY)
- $135,167
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $327,503
- Expenses
- $358,627
- Assets (EOY)
- $89,700
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $379,345
- Expenses
- $341,414
- Assets (EOY)
- $120,824
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $351,700
- Expenses
- $291,500
- Assets (EOY)
- $84,205
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $268,600
- Expenses
- $303,147
- Assets (EOY)
- $25,656
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $268,700
- Expenses
- $231,564
- Assets (EOY)
- $58,407
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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
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2023 General operations
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2025 General operations
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2022 general operations
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$10,200
2024 EDUCATION
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2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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.