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POWERSWITCH ACTION

EIN 71-0914032 OAKLAND, CA

Revenue 2024
$12,575,509
Expenses 2024
$11,324,650

Program services were 87.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S20
Classification
1000
Street
1305 FRANKLIN ST STE 501

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.

  • LAUREN JACOBS

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $162,680
    From this org
    $154,097
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,583
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,097
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,701
    Nontaxable benefits
    $882
    Filer's total
    $162,680

  • BARBARA FINNIN

    FINANCE AND OPERATIONS DIR

    Total calculated
    $173,486
    From this org
    $139,448
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,038
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $137,853
    Bonus
    $1,595
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,101
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,937
    Filer's total
    $173,486

  • DONALD COHEN

    DIRECTOR, IN THE PUBLIC IN

    Total calculated
    $153,260
    From this org
    $144,409
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,851
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,914
    Bonus
    $2,495
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,193
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,658
    Filer's total
    $153,260

  • LENA AFRIDI

    CHIEF OF STAFF

    Total calculated
    $180,139
    From this org
    $141,930
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,209
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,930
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,092
    Nontaxable benefits
    $31,117
    Filer's total
    $180,139

  • BENJAMIN BEACH

    LEGAL DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $162,855
    From this org
    $130,247
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,608
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $130,247
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,688
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,920
    Filer's total
    $162,855

  • SHAHRZAD HABIBI

    RESEARCH AND POLICY DIRECT

    Total calculated
    $148,897
    From this org
    $121,607
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,290
    Hours/week
    40

  • SYLVIA RUIZ

    NETWORK STRENGTH DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $134,943
    From this org
    $120,018
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,925
    Hours/week
    40

  • KYRA GREENE

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHEHERYAR KAOOSJI

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JENNIFER RAFANAN KENNEDY

    SEC./TREASURER (LEFT 7/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEX WALLACH HANSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • AMY ZACHMEYER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • BRANDEN SNYDER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • BRENDAN WALSH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CARLOS FERNANDEZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CARMEN MEDRANO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CHRISTINA SHIMIZU

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DARLENE LOMBOS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DEBORAH SCOTT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DERECKA MEHRENS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DESIREE WESTLUND

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DWAYNE ROYSTER

    DIR. AT LARGE (LEFT 7/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ELY FLORES

    DIRECTOR (LEFT 7/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • HAZEL DAVALO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JEREMY AL-HAJ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

The first 25 listed. 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
    $12,575,509
    Expenses
    $11,324,650
    Contributions
    $12,271,227
    Grants paid
    $4,912,630
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $12,360,812
    Expenses
    $11,319,272
    Contributions
    $11,976,545
    Grants paid
    $5,171,656
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,685,553
    Expenses
    $10,441,388
    Contributions
    $12,537,920
    Grants paid
    $5,803,411

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

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 on its 2024 return

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.