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URBAN ALCHEMY

EIN 82-5408579 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$101,395,587
Expenses 2024
$101,673,920

Program services were 83.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S99
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 425509

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 OPERATE WORKFORCE PROGRAMS IN AREAS OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, URBAN STREET CLEANING, & REENTRY SERVICES.

  • URBAN ALCHEMY EMPLOYS FORMER LONG-TERM OFFENDERS AS "URBAN ALCHEMY PRACTITIONERS" TO PROVIDE CLEAN AND SAFE PUBLIC FACILITIES IN URBAN AREAS, CURRENTLY SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, AUSTIN, AND PORTLAND. URBAN ALCHEMY AIMS TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR FORMER LONG-TERM OFFENDERS AND TO REDUCE RECIDIVISM AND SIMULTANEOUSLY TRANSFORM THE ENERGY OF THE MOST CHAOTIC PLACES IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS. URBAN ALCHEMY PRACTITIONERS WORK IN URBAN SPACES THAT ARE MOST IMPACTED BY THE INTERSECTION OF HOMELESSNESS, ADDICTION, AND MENTAL ILLNESS. DEPENDING ON THE PARTICULAR ASSIGNMENT, URBAN ALCHEMY PRACTITIONERS' SERVICES RANGE FROM CLEANING THE STREETS, TO MONITORING A PUBLIC BATHROOM, TO ENSURE THE ELEVATORS IN THE BART STATION ARE SAFE AND CLEAN.

    Expenses $84,667,958 · Revenue $1,189,854

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.

  • LENA MILLER

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $353,202
    From this org
    $346,632
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,570
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $346,632
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,570
    Filer's total
    $353,202

  • RON WILSON

    COO

    Total calculated
    $289,492
    From this org
    $282,922
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,570
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $282,922
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,570
    Filer's total
    $289,492

  • MELEK TOTAH

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $193,130
    From this org
    $188,393
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,737
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $188,393
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $4,737
    Filer's total
    $193,130

  • MIKE GERARD ANDERER

    CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $187,468
    From this org
    $180,932
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,536
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $180,932
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,536
    Filer's total
    $187,468

  • KIRKPATRICK TYLER

    DIRECTOR OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

    Total calculated
    $184,450
    From this org
    $177,922
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,528
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $177,922
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,528
    Filer's total
    $184,450

  • ANN KWON

    CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $166,074
    From this org
    $164,605
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,469
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $164,605
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,469
    Filer's total
    $166,074

  • ARTIE GILBERT

    DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $160,452
    From this org
    $153,937
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,515
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $153,937
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,515
    Filer's total
    $160,452

  • IAN CLARK-JOHNSON

    DIRECTOR OF TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $160,035
    From this org
    $153,520
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,515
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $153,520
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,515
    Filer's total
    $160,035

  • LATOYA NATASHA STEVENSON

    CLINICAL DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $159,439
    From this org
    $152,922
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,517
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $152,922
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,517
    Filer's total
    $159,439

  • BASKARAN AMBALAVANAN

    DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

    Total calculated
    $142,319
    From this org
    $136,415
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,904
    Hours/week
    40

  • LISA DE LA RUE

    CHIEF OF RESEARCH

    Total calculated
    $127,917
    From this org
    $127,603
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $314
    Hours/week
    40

  • LOLA WHITTLE

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SHAWN LANI

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAROLYN DAVIS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROB HOPE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TIM KORNEGAY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • EDUARDO SANTACANA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AQUULA SHERRILLS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOSS TILLARD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $101,395,587
    Expenses
    $101,673,920
    Contributions
    $100,188,905
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $84,895,793
    Expenses
    $82,262,391
    Contributions
    $62,047,272
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $70,267,728
    Expenses
    $69,624,377
    Contributions
    $44,012,309
    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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $51,179,845
    Expenses
    $48,615,627
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,724,191

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $27,841,337
    Expenses
    $26,152,519
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,468,655

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,130,057
    Expenses
    $9,152,334
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,311,650

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $35,983
    Expenses
    $3,272
    Assets (EOY)
    $35,074

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.

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

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