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CHILDREN NOW

EIN 94-3059243 OAKLAND, CA

Revenue 2024
$9,915,882
Expenses 2024
$8,097,092

Program services were 82.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P300
Classification
1000
Street
6250 CLAREMONT AVE STE 230

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.

  • EDWARD LEMPERT

    President

    Total calculated
    $579,590
    From this org
    $461,188
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $118,402
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $403,964
    Bonus
    $57,224
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $88,268
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,134
    Filer's total
    $579,590

  • VINCENT STEWART

    VP, Policy & Prog

    Total calculated
    $360,908
    From this org
    $268,966
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $91,942
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $242,766
    Bonus
    $26,200
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $40,338
    Nontaxable benefits
    $51,604
    Filer's total
    $360,908

  • SUSANNA KNIFFEN

    SR MANAGING DIR

    Total calculated
    $328,067
    From this org
    $269,502
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $58,565
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $191,402
    Bonus
    $23,300
    Other
    $54,800
    Deferred
    $37,606
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,959
    Filer's total
    $328,067

  • ALEX MATIAS

    VP, OPS. & ENG.

    Total calculated
    $277,279
    From this org
    $238,208
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,071
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $212,708
    Bonus
    $25,500
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $10,915
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,156
    Filer's total
    $277,279

  • KELLY HARDY

    SR MANAGING DIR

    Total calculated
    $272,973
    From this org
    $206,615
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $66,358
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $185,615
    Bonus
    $21,000
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $30,136
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,222
    Filer's total
    $272,973

  • STACY LEE

    SR MANAGING DIR

    Total calculated
    $269,671
    From this org
    $216,469
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $53,202
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $194,669
    Bonus
    $21,800
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $32,999
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,203
    Filer's total
    $269,671

  • JASON SALZETTI

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • BRANDON MARTINEZ-LARRAGOITI

    FINANCE COMM.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JANE GARDNER

    CHAIR EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN GARCIA

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • MARK T JOHNSEN

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • NANCY MURRAY

    Affil Rel Comm.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • GAY KRAUSE

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • ANTOINETTE MAYER

    NOM. COMM.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

  • DENISE MCCAIN-THARNSTROM

    AUDIT COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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
    $9,915,882
    Expenses
    $8,097,092
    Contributions
    $9,160,923
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,339,194
    Expenses
    $7,850,194
    Contributions
    $4,534,242
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $9,145,747
    Expenses
    $7,355,178
    Contributions
    $8,913,712
    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.

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.

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

  • CHILDREN NOW ACTION FUND

    501(C)(4) · PROMOTE & ADVOCATE CHILDREN'S WELFARE · CA

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.