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PUBLIC FIRST LAW CENTER

EIN 46-3490671 LOS GATOS, CA

Revenue 2024
$564,842
Expenses 2024
$552,338

Program services were 79.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
I80
Classification
3000
Street
CO CFM 720 UNIVERSITY AVE 110

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.

  • Patti Epler

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.23

  • Paul Alston

    Director, Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.23

  • Richard Pollack

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.23

  • Patricia Tummons

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.23

  • Sunshine Topping

    Director, Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.23

  • R Brian Black

    President

    Total calculated
    $227,301
    From this org
    $210,433
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,868
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $199,683
    Bonus
    $10,750
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $16,868
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $227,301

  • Benjamin Creps

    Staff Attorney

    Total calculated
    $120,322
    From this org
    $115,536
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,786
    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
    $564,842
    Expenses
    $552,338
    Contributions
    $494,405
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $407,962
    Expenses
    $487,428
    Contributions
    $371,643
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $597,497
    Expenses
    $400,031
    Contributions
    $418,487
    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

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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.