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AQUAYA INSTITUTE

EIN 20-2977578 FAIRFAX, CA

Revenue 2025
$5,647,416
Expenses 2025
$4,634,532

Program services were 82.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
U40
Classification
8610
Street
87 PORTEOUS 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).

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.

  • RACHEL PELETZ

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $158,757
    From this org
    $134,960
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,797
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $134,960
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,934
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,863
    Filer's total
    $158,757

  • IAN WARBURG

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR LEN FINOCCHIO

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANONA DUTTON

    SECRETARY (AS OF JANUARY)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ZORBA LIEBERMAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHARISMA ACEY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTINA BABBITT

    TRUSTEE (THRU JANUARY)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DESMOND FITZGERALD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE FREEDMAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHANIE HASTINGS

    SECRETARY (THRU JANUARY); TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID RICH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MELINDA TELLEZ

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THERESA LEWIS

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $122,444
    From this org
    $116,725
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,719
    Hours/week
    40

  • CAROLINE DELAIRE

    DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH & PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $167,114
    From this org
    $129,282
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,832
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $129,282
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $18,825
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,007
    Filer's total
    $167,114

  • VALERIE BAUZA

    DEPUTY OF DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH

    Total calculated
    $125,482
    From this org
    $113,107
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,375
    Hours/week
    40

  • ANNA MURRAY

    DEPUTY OF DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH

    Total calculated
    $119,169
    From this org
    $110,775
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,394
    Hours/week
    40

  • RYANN JOHNSON

    DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $116,300
    From this org
    $108,329
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,971
    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 — 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
    $5,647,416
    Expenses
    $4,634,532
    Contributions
    $5,389,564
    Grants paid
    $442,298
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,975,962
    Expenses
    $7,057,434
    Contributions
    $3,967,813
    Grants paid
    $1,956,154
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $10,126,211
    Expenses
    $6,544,669
    Contributions
    $8,930,436
    Grants paid
    $1,849,707
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,769,804
    Expenses
    $4,703,517
    Contributions
    $6,317,361
    Grants paid
    $1,639,934

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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

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 10 September 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.