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HOPE IN A SUITCASE

EIN 47-5071911 BEVERLY HILLS, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,006,560
Expenses 2024
$811,672

Program services were 98.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P30
Classification
1000
Street
311 N ROBERTSON BLVD NR 715

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 children and teens entering and impacted by foster care with clothes, shoes, blankets, other essentials, and comfort items to help ease their transition. At a higher level, the mission is to spread awareness of the challenges facing children in foster care. Current programming is concentrated in the Greater Los Angeles area.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To provide children and teens entering foster care with clothes, blankets, other essentials, and comfort items to help ease their transition. In 2024, items have been distributed to 3,846 children.

  • To provide children and teens entering foster care with clothes, blankets, and other essentials.

    Expenses $802,626 · Grants $175,485 · Revenue $20,825

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Marsha Austen

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Andrew Horn

    Chief Financial Officer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Stacy Kravetz

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Amber Hartgens

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Barbara Bartman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Roquesa Brown Jordan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Eufe de la Torre

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Nicole Field

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Freeman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jason Lefton

    Director (start Sep 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Margaret Meenaghan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Danielle Sherrod

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jaime Schwartzberg

    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, 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
    $1,006,560
    Expenses
    $811,672
    Contributions
    $970,774
    Grants paid
    $175,485
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $699,355
    Expenses
    $649,137
    Contributions
    $678,686
    Grants paid
    $175,739
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $699,355
    Expenses
    $649,137
    Contributions
    $678,686
    Grants paid
    $175,739
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $554,812
    Expenses
    $511,325
    Contributions
    $524,296
    Grants paid
    $163,932

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
    $483,907
    Expenses
    $424,510
    Assets (EOY)
    $713,380

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $503,158
    Expenses
    $414,299
    Assets (EOY)
    $661,665

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 2015

Tax period
1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
Principal officer
MARSHA TODD AUSTEN
Mailing address
2355 WESTWOOD BLVD NO 1121LOS ANGELES CA 900642109
Website
HOPEINASUITCASE.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

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.

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