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EIN 27-0732786 SAN DIEGO, CA

Revenue 2024
$2,716,131
Expenses 2024
$2,340,736

Program services were 73.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B94
Classification
1000
Street
1855 FIRST AVENUE STE 201A

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 · 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.

  • SANDRA TIMMONS

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • MARK DILLON

    BOARD VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • ATUL PATEL

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • HEATHER WHITLEY QUINN

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DENISE CARABET

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHELE CHIN-PURCELL

    BOARD VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELISABETH EISNER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • DAVID FUHRIMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • EILEEN HAAG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • MATTHEW HALGREN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELAINE HARWELL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KAREN LIU

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JIM TIFFANY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUSANNA VILLEGAS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • KARIN WINNER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • KITTY WOLCOTT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LORIE HEARN

    CEO AND EDITOR

    Total calculated
    $67,850
    From this org
    $64,246
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,604
    Hours/week
    40

  • STEPHEN BREEN

    CARTOONIST AND ILLUSTRATOR

    Total calculated
    $171,585
    From this org
    $137,710
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $33,875
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $137,710
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $137,710

  • JAMIE JOHNSON

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $133,532
    From this org
    $126,647
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,885
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $126,647
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $126,647

  • BARBARA JO KELSO

    DIRECTOR OF PHILANTHROPY

    Total calculated
    $109,140
    From this org
    $105,146
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,994
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $105,146
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $105,146

  • CARLA SANCHEZ

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $131,063
    From this org
    $121,771
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,292
    Hours/week
    40

  • JAMIE SELF

    MANAGING EDITOR

    Total calculated
    $157,131
    From this org
    $132,392
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,739
    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,716,131
    Expenses
    $2,340,736
    Contributions
    $2,695,116
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,956,854
    Expenses
    $2,162,547
    Contributions
    $1,951,664
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,667,153
    Expenses
    $2,631,565
    Contributions
    $1,652,277
    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.

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 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.