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826 VALENCIA

EIN 04-3694151 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$10,068,999
Expenses 2024
$6,915,776

Program services were 77.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
2100
Street
826 VALENCIA ST

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

826 Valencia is a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization dedicated to supportingstudents ages 6 to 18 with their writing skills and helping teachers get theirstudents excited about writing. Our work is based on the understanding that strongwriting skills are fundamental to future success and that great leaps in learningcan be made when skilled tutors work one-on-one with students.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their writing skills & helping teachers get students excited about writing. We advocate that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success & that great leaps in learning can be made when skilled tutors work one-on-one with students.

  • Workshops:In our Workshops program, we served 438 students during the 2024-2025 school year. This year, we adapted to our students needs and energy, and decided to do more writing projects that incorporated illustrations and creativity. A highlight was the October haunted house project, where students developed a sales pitch for their haunted house and then built a diorama. At the end of the project, students presented their sales pitch, showcasing all their haunted amenities.

    Expenses $1,157,152

  • In-School Programs: 826 Valencia partners with public schools throughout San Francisco to collaboratively develop writing curricula and bring 826 staff and volunteer tutors into partner schools, where we provide individualized writing lessons and tutoring. In FY25, we supported 48 teachers and 1,650 students at 13 schools. Our Black Student Cohort, an auxiliary program to our In-Schools programming, served 21 elementary school students as well.

    Expenses $1,102,660 · Grants $170,002 · Revenue $170,740

  • Field Trip Programs: 826 Valencia hosts Storytelling & Bookmaking and Choose Your Own Adventure writing field trips for elementary students at its Mission Center and podcasting field trips for middle and high schools at its Tenderloin Center. In FY25, we served 4,172 students with 195 field trips. Our podcasting field trips yielded 1,947 student podcasts that reached 29,147 listeners through our SoundCloud page.

    Expenses $1,011,840

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $721,751

  • Leadership and Future Pathways:826 provides middle and high schoolers with opportunities to build skills, knowledge, and resources that strengthen the high school-to-college-to-career pathway. In FY25, we awarded five $20,000 college scholarships to graduating seniors who will also receive ongoing college persistence and completion support from our partner ScholarMatch. We provided another 204 twelfth-graders with college application and essay support through in-person workshops, both at our writing centers and with partner schools. Our Youth Leadership Advisory Board, Black Literary Achievement Club, and Middle School Leadership Program offered paid internships, leadership development, and career readiness support to 94 teens. We also provided hands-on workforce development experience and stipends to 62 high school and college students and transitional-aged youth who interned with our education, volunteer, design, and store teams.

    Expenses $603,151

  • Summer Workshops and Camps:We served 792 students in summer 2025 through project-based writing camps and workshops. Programs included: A) Exploring Words Summer Camp, where students in grades 3-5 work on writing projects that included persuasive writing, screenwriting, field journals, identity/Narrative writing, community mural poetry, and creating fantasy worlds; B) Exploring Leadership Summer Camp, where students in grades 6-8 develop leadership and communication skills by exploring issues that face their communities; C) Young Author's Workshop (YAW), an creative writing camp where high schoolers explore a range of literary genres and compose literary works; and D) writing workshops for students in grades 3-8 through our community partners in the Tenderloin.

    Expenses $442,880

  • Other Program Accomplishments include the operation of two retail stores (Mission District, Mission Bay). The stores sell educational materials, books for children, and other whimsical childrens toys, and serve as a community touchpoint in the neighborhoods where we operate. Other Programs also include the design and publishing infrastructure for our various publishing programs, our workforce development program for AmeriCorps associates and paid interns, and our volunteer program.

    Expenses $302,911

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • Bita Nazarian

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $243,358
    From this org
    $222,627
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,731
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $222,627
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $5,666
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,065
    Filer's total
    $243,358

  • Christina Perry

    Assoc. Director

    Total calculated
    $150,305
    From this org
    $139,516
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,789
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $139,516
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $3,117
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,672
    Filer's total
    $150,305

  • Nicholas Parker

    Finance Dir.

    Total calculated
    $147,209
    From this org
    $136,319
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,890
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kathleen Peltier

    Giving Dir.

    Total calculated
    $130,984
    From this org
    $114,187
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,797
    Hours/week
    40

  • Miranda Ling

    Dir. Advancement

    Total calculated
    $119,964
    From this org
    $108,277
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,687
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ryan Young

    Programs Dir.

    Total calculated
    $109,936
    From this org
    $100,086
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,850
    Hours/week
    40

  • Lisa Brown

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Liza Ramrayka

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ambar Bhattacharyya

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Eric Abrams

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carolyn Feinstein Edwards

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Enikia Ford Morthel

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shikha Donde

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott Rubin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Keith Hunter

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rachel Yeaman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Osvaldo Mrquez-Gmez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lindsy Sanders

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Monica Varman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bianca Catalan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Josh McHugh

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melissa Bender

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bill Bourdon

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ipek Burnett

    Board Member

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $10,068,999
    Expenses
    $6,915,776
    Contributions
    $8,911,210
    Grants paid
    $170,002
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,544,342
    Expenses
    $6,455,560
    Contributions
    $6,526,758
    Grants paid
    $93,916
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,019,404
    Expenses
    $5,920,943
    Contributions
    $5,614,637
    Grants paid
    $107,100

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
    $5,944,678
    Expenses
    $5,090,348
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,238,328

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,213,502
    Expenses
    $4,034,605
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,886,742

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,032,210
    Expenses
    $4,278,092
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,751,151

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,904,149
    Expenses
    $3,733,407
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,544,965

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,361,413
    Expenses
    $3,190,593
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,401,222

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,793,154
    Expenses
    $2,801,783
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,233,194

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,989,579
    Expenses
    $1,992,215
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,217,470

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,818,505
    Expenses
    $1,473,757
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,347,772

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,342,010
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,972,599

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,144,765
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,117,961

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

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.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.