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PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY

EIN 95-1644037 MALIBU, CA

Revenue 2024
$755,116,691
Expenses 2024
$666,452,572

Program services were 76.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B430
Classification
2000
Street
24255 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY

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.

  • DEE ANNA SMITH

    CHAIR, REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • ALAN BEARD

    REGENT THRU 5/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANNA MERGELE

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTOPHER RUDD

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DALE BROWN

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DENNIS LEWIS

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERIC WOLFORD

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FREDERICK RICKER

    VICE CHAIR, REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES GASH

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $1,323,005
    From this org
    $917,815
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $405,190
    Hours/week
    40 + 2 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $562,795
    Bonus
    $350,000
    Other
    $5,020
    Deferred
    $34,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $370,690
    Filer's total
    $1,323,005

  • JAY WELKER

    SECRETARY, REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • JEREMY JOHNSON

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN LEWIS

    ASSISTANT SECRETARY, REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • JOHN PLUEGER

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KASEY PIPES

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KIMBERLY LINDLEY

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL OKABAYASHI

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PETER JOHNSON JR

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • R CHARLES WALKER JR

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SETH HAYE

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHELLE ENSIO

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHEN STEWART

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VIRGINIA MILSTEAD

    REGENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BEN VEENENDAAL

    VP PLANNING, OPS & CONSTRUCTION

    Total calculated
    $302,423
    From this org
    $239,148
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $63,275
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $231,334
    Bonus
    $7,000
    Other
    $814
    Deferred
    $18,885
    Nontaxable benefits
    $44,390
    Filer's total
    $302,423

  • CONNIE HORTON

    VP STUDENT AFFAIRS, VC RISE

    Total calculated
    $366,774
    From this org
    $204,856
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $161,918
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $153,325
    Bonus
    $31,000
    Other
    $20,531
    Deferred
    $65,379
    Nontaxable benefits
    $96,539
    Filer's total
    $366,774

  • DAMON SEAN BURNETT

    SVP, INTEGRATED MARKETING & CMO

    Total calculated
    $460,011
    From this org
    $302,795
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $157,216
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $225,651
    Bonus
    $58,000
    Other
    $19,144
    Deferred
    $43,555
    Nontaxable benefits
    $113,661
    Filer's total
    $460,011

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
    $755,116,691
    Expenses
    $666,452,572
    Contributions
    $56,339,649
    Grants paid
    $150,373,104
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $705,484,656
    Expenses
    $664,734,965
    Contributions
    $31,484,848
    Grants paid
    $151,139,601
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $699,813,135
    Expenses
    $649,440,096
    Contributions
    $44,076,355
    Grants paid
    $154,709,004

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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

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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

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.