VETERANS LEGAL INSTITUTE

EIN 47-1608069 TUSTIN, CA

Revenue 2024: $3,032,149
Expenses 2024: $1,957,267

Program services were 91.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: L99
Classification: 1000
Street: 1231 WARNER AVE

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.

ANTOINETTE NADDOUR

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$90,389

From this org

$90,389

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

40
PETE SEITZ

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.25
SHEILA-MARIE FINKELSTEIN

VICE PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
JACK WILLIAMS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.25
MICHAEL KIBBE

CHAIRMAN

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
KATHY DAWSON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.25
ANDREA BIRD-STEINER

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
MARCO ARCADIA

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
SAJINDRA GUNAWARDANE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.25
NATHAN CAZIER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.25
LEA PETERSEN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.25
LISA GIEVERS DAVIES

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.25
MORGAN MCCOMBBE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.25
JEFF ROBERTS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.25
JACKIE SMART

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.25
JUSTIN GOLDBERG

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.25
MARY BETH STEEN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.25
HEIDI PLUMMER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.25
SILVANA SARKIS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.25
BLAINE BROWN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.25
CHRIS PATTERSON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.25
KEVIN WHITNEY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.25

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

$3,032,149

Expenses

$1,957,267

Contributions

$3,015,623

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$2,265,572

Expenses

$1,669,778

Contributions

$2,265,572

Grants paid

$334,900
2022

Revenue

$1,840,175

Expenses

$1,467,828

Contributions

$1,653,946

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$3,032,149	$1,957,267	$3,015,623	$0
2023	$2,265,572	$1,669,778	$2,265,572	$334,900
2022	$1,840,175	$1,467,828	$1,653,946	$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

$1,461,099

Expenses

$1,207,997

Assets (EOY)

$925,101
2020 · 990

Revenue

$1,123,228

Expenses

$1,027,269

Assets (EOY)

$768,414
2019 · 990

Revenue

$1,002,772

Expenses

$876,735

Assets (EOY)

$408,705
2018 · 990

Revenue

$805,384

Expenses

$794,266

Assets (EOY)

$356,460
2017 · 990

Revenue

$578,642

Expenses

$574,883

Assets (EOY)

$275,417
2016 · 990

Revenue

$476,817

Expenses

$235,864

Assets (EOY)

$266,658

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$1,461,099	$1,207,997	$925,101
2020	990	$1,123,228	$1,027,269	$768,414
2019	990	$1,002,772	$876,735	$408,705
2018	990	$805,384	$794,266	$356,460
2017	990	$578,642	$574,883	$275,417
2016	990	$476,817	$235,864	$266,658

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 2014

Tax period: 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer: Dwight Stirling
Mailing address: 16842 Pacific Coast Hwy Unit 105Huntington Beach CA 92649

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 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

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

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$131,000

2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$95,455

2022 HUMAN SERVICES
BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

$75,900

2024 LEGAL SERVICES; CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIP
ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$51,000

2023 HUMAN SERVICES
CALIFORNIA ACCESS TO JUSTICE COMMISSION

$45,000

2024 Program Support
CALIFORNIA ACCESS TO JUSTICE COMMISSION

$30,000

2022 PROGRAM SUPPORT
VETSAID INC

$30,000

2023 TO PROVIDE HELP AND ASSISTANCE TO AMERICAN VETERANS
ORANGE COUNTY BAR ASSOC ATTORNEYS CONTRIBUTING TO SOCIETY INC

$25,000

2025 PRO BONO MOBILE VETERAN LEGAL CLINICS IN ORANGE COUNTY
ORANGE COUNTY BAR ASSOC ATTORNEYS CONTRIBUTING TO SOCIETY INC

$25,000

2023 VETERAN LEGAL CLINICS FOR OC VETERAN HOTSPOTS AND HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION
ANDERSEN TAX FOUNDATION

$25,000

2024 SUPPORT THE NEEDS OF THE GREATER LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY.

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.

RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

$1,245 raised

2021 CF Vehicle Donation Program

$572 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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.