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RECOVERY CAFE SAN JOSE INC

EIN 45-4496745 SAN JOSE, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,377,166
Expenses 2024
$1,478,405

Program services were 75.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P80
Classification
1000
Street
80 S 5TH 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

To provide a healing community of services and support for people recovering from addiction, homelessness, mental illness and other kinds of trauma.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Recovery Cafe San Jose provides a healing community of services and support for people recovering from addiction, homelessness, mental illness and other kinds of trauma.

  • The Cafe program is housed in a welcoming, safe, and sober environment in dowtown San Jose. Inside our walls, people who cannot afford traditional rehab and recovery services come to grow and belong to a community where they learn to trust that they are worthy of giving and receiving love. Our services include emotional support, education, and food assistance in the form of Recovery Circles (small weekly peer support and accountability groups); an 8-10 week School for Recovery held four times per year (classes in life skills, healthy living, inner healing & relationships, and addiction and recovery); access to a Clothing Closet and help navigating housing, government, and job training pathways; as well as two fresh and nutritious meals each weekday (breakfast and lunch). This year, Recovery Cafe San Jose provided more than 1,000 hours of Recovery Circle small group support and more than 40,000 meals to an average of 230 monthly members, who reported an increase in personal health, happiness, and self-worth, which translated for many to new energies for living and a capacity to fulfill one's potential. In addition, 143 Cafe Members graduated from the School for Recovery, and 450 people utilized our Clothing Closet for new shoes, socks, underwear, pants, shirts, and seasonal clothing and gear.

    Expenses $1,119,863 · Grants $214,549

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • David Pann

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Elaine Curran

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Dana Bainbridge

    Co-Founder

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shannon Clark

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Hon Lawrence Terry

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • Linda Lappin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • Steve Nakano

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • Steve Pinkston

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • Julie Anderson

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $128,500
    From this org
    $128,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Frank San Miguel

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • James Murphy

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shuchi Sarkar

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

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
    $1,377,166
    Expenses
    $1,478,405
    Contributions
    $1,251,509
    Grants paid
    $214,549
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,228,315
    Expenses
    $1,269,507
    Contributions
    $1,166,984
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $762,412
    Expenses
    $1,043,474
    Contributions
    $687,581
    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
    $639,963
    Expenses
    $891,273
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,430,134

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $807,605
    Expenses
    $706,378
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,665,129

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $747,353
    Expenses
    $773,139
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,562,975

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $802,512
    Expenses
    $719,180
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,590,112

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2012

Tax period
1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012
Principal officer
John E Lindley
Mailing address
80 S 5TH STSAN JOSE CA 951123519
Website
http://www.recoverycafesj.org/

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • Carry the Vision

    $214,549

    2024 Subaward of State of California CalCRG grant funds for behavioral health and recovery support services.

Where these grants went next →

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