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THE PLUS ME PROJECT

EIN 46-3506663 LOS ANGELES, CA

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Revenue 2024
$1,005,549
Expenses 2024
$896,884

Program services were 80.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B99
Classification
2000
Street
2519 W AVENUE 30

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

THE PLUS ME PROJECT ACTIVATES THE ART OF PERSONAL STORYTELLING TO BUILD CONFIDENCE IN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH. WE BELIEVE EVERYONE HAS A STORY THAT MATTERS AND SINCE 2013 WE HAVE IMPACTED OVER 100,000 STUDENTS THROUGH OUT THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

  • COLLEGE ESSAY SUPPORT PROGRAMS HELP STUDENTS TAKE THEIR DISCOVERED STORIES FROM OUR STORYTELLERS AND WRITERS PROGRAM AND TURN THEM INTO COMPELLING COLLEGE PERSONAL STATEMENTS. WE ALSO WORK WITH STUDENTS 1:1 TO EDIT AND POLISH THEIR PERSONAL INSIGHT QUESTIONS.

    Expenses $344,239 · Revenue $273,065

  • STORYTELLERS PLUS ME SUPPORTS STUDENTS WITH DISCOVERING THE POWER OF THEIR OWN PERSONAL NARRATIVES. WITH THE HELP OF OUR CUSTOMIZED MY STORY MATTERS JOURNALS, STUDENTS REFLECT ON THE IMPACT OF THEITR LIFE EXPERIENCES AND ARE GUIDED THROUGH ARTICULATING THE IMPORTANT CHARACTERS, SETTINGS, EVENTS, AND LESSONS FROM THEIR LIVES. EVERY STUDENT CONCLUDES THE WORKSHOP BY SHARING THEIR STORY AND CONNECTING WITH THEIR PEERS.

    Expenses $157,776 · Revenue $125,155

  • WRITERS PLUS ME BUILDS UPON THE WORK THAT WAS COMPLETED IN OUR STORYTELERS PLUS ME PROGRAM. STUDENTS CONTINUE TO REFLECT ON THEIR STORY, BUT FOCUS MORE ATTENTION ON THEIR WRITING. WITH HELP OF OUR CUSTOMIZED MY STORY MATTERS JOURNALS, STUDENTS LEARN HOW TO FURTHER ARTICULATE IMPORTANT MOMENTS FROM THEIR LIVES AND DRAFT THEIR STORIES. EVERY STUDENT CONCLUDES THE WORKSHOP SERIES BY COMPLETING A DRAFTED PIECE OF THEIR PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

    Expenses $50,202 · Revenue $39,822

  • Expenses $164,948 · Revenue $130,844

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.

  • Richard Ortiz-Reyes

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $100,708
    From this org
    $100,708
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Walter Marlowe

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jeremy Presser

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kate Motonaga

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rosita Medina

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Henry Brandt

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Annjanette Isorda

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Laura Oliver-Suos

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nina Torres

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lety Sanchez

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Terio Ruiz

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cristina Briskie

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jerry Leever

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael Wright

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ritika Rose

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Diana Ishak

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Velma Brooks-Benson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Benjamin Salisbury

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tony Morales

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bernier Lauredan

    BOARD MEMBER

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,005,549
    Expenses
    $896,884
    Contributions
    $426,584
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $952,063
    Expenses
    $920,599
    Contributions
    $575,763
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $756,887
    Expenses
    $735,761
    Contributions
    $250,050
    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
    $742,011
    Expenses
    $562,548
    Assets (EOY)
    $451,610

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $354,851
    Expenses
    $278,506
    Assets (EOY)
    $270,474

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2015

Tax period
1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016
Principal officer
Richard Reyes
Mailing address
2519 West Avenue 30Los Angeles CA 90065
Website
www.theplusmeproject.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.