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PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

EIN 94-2197343 SACRAMENTO, CA

Revenue 2023
$47,934,509
Expenses 2023
$27,024,089

Program services were 81.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80Z
Classification
1200
Street
555 CAPITOL MALL STE 1290

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 · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Robert D Connors

    Chair of the Board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • George Kimball

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert K Best

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ross Borba Jr

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amy Brigham Boulris

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian G Cartwright

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Greg M Evans

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Gerson

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John C Harris

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carol Platt Liebau

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • April J Morris

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bruce C Smith

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charles W Trainor

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ronald E Van Buskirk

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeffrey E Warren

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Yoo

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steven Anderson

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $695,722
    From this org
    $620,178
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $75,544
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $545,178
    Bonus
    $75,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $52,800
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,744
    Filer's total
    $695,722

  • John Groen

    Exec. VP

    Total calculated
    $415,143
    From this org
    $345,704
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $69,439
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $328,204
    Bonus
    $17,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $51,516
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,923
    Filer's total
    $415,143

  • Lawrance Salzman

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $339,977
    From this org
    $270,841
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $69,136
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $251,841
    Bonus
    $19,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $45,814
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,322
    Filer's total
    $339,977

  • Charles Wilcox IV

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $313,829
    From this org
    $259,446
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $54,383
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $244,446
    Bonus
    $15,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $42,723
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,660
    Filer's total
    $313,829

  • Joshua Thompson

    Dir.of Equ & Opp Lit.

    Total calculated
    $276,052
    From this org
    $221,796
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $54,256
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $221,796
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $30,939
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,317
    Filer's total
    $276,052

  • Doug Kruse

    VP for Development

    Total calculated
    $259,195
    From this org
    $221,934
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,261
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $211,934
    Bonus
    $10,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $36,114
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,147
    Filer's total
    $259,195

  • Scott Barton

    VP of Comm & Marketing

    Total calculated
    $264,871
    From this org
    $222,728
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,143
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $215,228
    Bonus
    $7,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $30,489
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,654
    Filer's total
    $264,871

  • Robert Thomas

    Dir.of Prop Rights Lit

    Total calculated
    $244,030
    From this org
    $214,849
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,181
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $214,849
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,264
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,917
    Filer's total
    $244,030

  • Steve Simpson

    Director of SOP

    Total calculated
    $291,419
    From this org
    $256,798
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,621
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $256,798
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $22,959
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,662
    Filer's total
    $291,419

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $47,934,509
    Expenses
    $27,024,089
    Contributions
    $44,192,403
    Grants paid
    $40,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $25,069,324
    Expenses
    $25,562,157
    Contributions
    $21,771,790
    Grants paid
    $120,000

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.

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

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.

  • BOB L. VICE DBA BLV AGRIBUSINESS CONSULTANTS

    $207,933 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $176,577 to charity

  • BOB L. VICE DBA BLV AGRIBUSINESS CONSULTANTS

    $1,183,360 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $1,098,593 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 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.