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EIN 47-3589804 JAMAICA PLAIN, MA

Revenue 2025
$4,270,978
Expenses 2025
$4,444,973

Program services were 76.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S30
Classification
1200
Street
769 CENTRE 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).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • PENN LOH

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AARON TANAKA

    DIRECTOR (TREASURER SINCE 10/1/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SARAH JIMENEZ

    TREASURER (UNTIL 9/30/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • FARHAD EBRAHIMI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TIFFANY BROWN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KHALIDA SMALLS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LILY HUANG

    CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (SINCE 9/5/25)

    Total calculated
    $35,342
    From this org
    $35,186
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $156
    Hours/week
    40

  • SHARI DAVIS

    CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $156,022
    From this org
    $135,369
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,653
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $135,369
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,061
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,592
    Filer's total
    $156,022

  • MARTIN FAMILIA

    SR. DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & HR

    Total calculated
    $128,811
    From this org
    $117,514
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,297
    Hours/week
    40

  • MARIA CHRISTINA BLANCO

    BOARD CLERK/OPERATIONS MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $88,939
    From this org
    $78,060
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,879
    Hours/week
    42

  • JENNIFER NEAR

    SR. DIR. OF PHILANTHROPY & INVESTING

    Total calculated
    $126,924
    From this org
    $117,043
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,881
    Hours/week
    40

  • AMRITA WASSAN

    SR. DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $119,197
    From this org
    $110,011
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,186
    Hours/week
    40

  • CHRISLENE DEJEAN

    SR. DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE & CULTURE

    Total calculated
    $122,000
    From this org
    $107,062
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,938
    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, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $4,270,978
    Expenses
    $4,444,973
    Contributions
    $4,069,800
    Grants paid
    $1,396,475
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,465,280
    Expenses
    $4,206,570
    Contributions
    $6,323,690
    Grants paid
    $701,906
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,944,735
    Expenses
    $4,536,716
    Contributions
    $4,723,979
    Grants paid
    $481,745
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,517,905
    Expenses
    $3,002,532
    Contributions
    $7,328,600
    Grants paid
    $396,000

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2015

Tax period
1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
Principal officer
Aaron Tanaka
Mailing address
194 Highland Street 1Boston MA 02119

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 12 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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 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.

What this page reflects

The IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.