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INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC STRATEGIES

EIN 33-0519874 SAN DIEGO, CA

Revenue 2023
$4,877,902
Expenses 2023
$4,645,726

Program services were 82.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E70Z
Classification
1000
Street
8885 RIO SAN DIEGO DR STE 117

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 · 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.

  • Brenda Simmons

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $205,382
    From this org
    $146,352
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $59,030
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $146,352
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $50,501
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,529
    Filer's total
    $205,382

  • TERRI L HOWEY

    COO

    Total calculated
    $180,442
    From this org
    $134,452
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $45,990
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $134,452
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $45,471
    Nontaxable benefits
    $519
    Filer's total
    $180,442

  • SARAH BLANCH

    CSO

    Total calculated
    $158,386
    From this org
    $109,598
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $48,788
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $109,598
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $39,615
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,173
    Filer's total
    $158,386

  • ERIC COLLINS

    VP PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $153,617
    From this org
    $105,737
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $47,880
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $105,737
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $38,039
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,841
    Filer's total
    $153,617

  • Marilyn Wexler

    Chairperson

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dana Sherrod

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SAM BECKNEL

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Richard Yoast

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SARA COOLEY BROSCHART

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Vicki Luquette

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kathy Smith-Wenning

    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 — 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
    $4,877,902
    Expenses
    $4,645,726
    Contributions
    $4,872,294
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,721,410
    Expenses
    $4,659,990
    Contributions
    $4,718,228
    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

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.

Declared on its 2023 return

Declared as related by

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.