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BURN INSTITUTE

EIN 23-7260718 SAN DIEGO, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,349,522
Expenses 2024
$1,528,416

Program services were 61.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T99Z
Classification
1000
Street
2508 HISTORIC DECATUR RD STE 110S

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

Our Mission is to educate and inspire our communities to reduce burn injuries and empower those affected by burn trauma.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Burn Institute is a non-profit health agency dedicated to reducing burn injuries and deaths through fire and burn prevention education, burn survivor support programs and funding of burn care research and treatment.

  • Community Outreach - The Organization provides school-based and community-based fire and burn prevention education programs in both English and Spanish and distributes fire and burn prevention literature to childcare centers, preschools, grade schools K-6, community health centers, community resource centers, libraries, at health fairs and senior centers in an effort to prevent fire and burn injuries and deaths. The Organizations wildfire prevention and preparation and senior fire and burn prevention programs all provide the public with services that save lives and property through education.

    Expenses $533,959

  • Burn Patient Support - Patient support burn survivor support services include Camp Beyond the Scars for burn-injured children, a retreat for adult burn survivors, a family retreat for burn survivors and their immediate family, scholarship opportunities for adult burn survivors to attend World Burn Congress and teenagers to attend a young adult retreat, emergency housing and transportation for burn survivors and their families for burn care treatment and follow-up clinical visits, and other medical therapies not covered by insurance.

    Expenses $406,764

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.

  • Tessa Haviland

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $128,100
    From this org
    $120,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,100
    Hours/week
    40

  • Gerald Davee Esq

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Ott

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Chief Robert Pfohl

    VP CFO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brennon Hope

    VP Programs

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jorge Balvaneda

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Berend

    Board Governance Nominating Committee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jim Boland

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jim Cunningham

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matt Ficco

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nate Fairman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Jeanne Lee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chief Colin Stowell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chief Mitch Villalpando

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • George Duardo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah Booher

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rachel Freeman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Logan

    Director

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,349,522
    Expenses
    $1,528,416
    Contributions
    $1,185,961
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,229,931
    Expenses
    $1,628,685
    Contributions
    $1,192,653
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,556,085
    Expenses
    $1,394,769
    Contributions
    $1,513,104
    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
    $1,414,827
    Expenses
    $1,261,594
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,605,037

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,377,296
    Expenses
    $1,079,043
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,298,942

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,504,092
    Expenses
    $1,388,775
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,805,619

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,297,763
    Expenses
    $1,270,841
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,559,340

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,537,795
    Expenses
    $1,287,313
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,589,850

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,470,137
    Expenses
    $1,143,693
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,340,561

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,335,616
    Expenses
    $1,171,356
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,057,511

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,108,907
    Expenses
    $1,010,821
    Assets (EOY)
    $841,160

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,145,418
    Expenses
    $1,150,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $805,455

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

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

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.

  • AMERICAN DONATION ORGANIZATION

    $450 raised

    2019 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $153 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.

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.