PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

I80Z

Classification

1200

Street

555 CAPITOL MALL STE 1290

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 · 2023

• Each year, PLF represents hundreds of Americans, free of charge, who seek to improve their lives but are stymied by government. We give them their day in court to vindicate their rights and set a lasting precedent to protect everyone else. See Schedule O for a complete list of cases litigated during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024.

  Expenses $21,894,761 · Grants $40,000 · Revenue $260,246

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. 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

• 2023

  Revenue

  $47,934,509

  Expenses

  $27,024,089

  Contributions

  $44,192,403

  Grants paid

  $40,000

• 2022

  Revenue

  $25,069,324

  Expenses

  $25,562,157

  Contributions

  $21,771,790

  Grants paid

  $120,000

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

  $28,245,541

  Expenses

  $20,203,674

  Assets (EOY)

  $76,776,179

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $18,386,652

  Expenses

  $17,088,511

  Assets (EOY)

  $79,792,141

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $16,552,123

  Expenses

  $16,476,681

  Assets (EOY)

  $64,175,752

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $18,427,010

  Expenses

  $15,441,226

  Assets (EOY)

  $65,165,262

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $13,377,243

  Expenses

  $11,668,784

  Assets (EOY)

  $53,327,855

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,778,138

  Expenses

  $10,583,155

  Assets (EOY)

  $47,864,523

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,092,499

  Expenses

  $9,479,232

  Assets (EOY)

  $46,568,452

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $15,941,662

  Expenses

  $8,299,598

  Assets (EOY)

  $46,820,505

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,597,359

  Expenses

  $8,226,431

  Assets (EOY)

  $40,213,807

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $7,932,363

  Assets (EOY)

  $35,587,509

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

• Talent Market

  $25,000

  2023 · Assistance in locating employee talent.

• The John Locke Foundation Inc

  $15,000

  2022 · Program Support

• Iowans for Tax Relief Foundation

  $15,000

  2022 · Program Support

• Frontier Institute Inc

  $15,000

  2022 · Program Support

• Platte Institute for Economic Research Inc

  $15,000

  2022 · Program Support

• Pelican Institute for Public Policy

  $15,000

  2022 · Program Support

• Texas Public Policy Foundation

  $15,000

  2022 · Program Support

• Mackinac Center for Public Policy

  $15,000

  2022 · Program Support

• The James Madison Institute for Public Policy Studies

  $15,000

  2022 · Program Support

• Pelican Institute for Public Policy

  $15,000

  2023 · Program Support

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $3,077,487

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $2,932,035

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONORS TRUST INC

  $2,784,885

  2023 · for general operations

• DONORS TRUST INC

  $2,769,731

  2024 · for general operations

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $2,183,750

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $1,936,225

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $1,360,000

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $517,000

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $514,900

  2022 · HUMAN SERVICES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $419,760

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

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.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• BOB L. VICE DBA BLV AGRIBUSINESS CONSULTANTS

  $207,933 raised

  2020 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $176,577 to charity

• BOB L. VICE DBA BLV AGRIBUSINESS CONSULTANTS

  $1,183,360 raised

  2019 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $1,098,593 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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