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GARY AND MARY WEST HEALTH INSTITUTE

EIN 26-4146730 LA JOLLA, CA

Revenue 2024
$44,564,569
Expenses 2024
$42,453,440

Program services were 83.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
H92
Classification
8000
Street
10350 N TORREY PINES RD

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.

  • SHELLEY M LYFORD

    DIRECTOR, CHAIR & CEO

    Total calculated
    $947,107
    From this org
    $861,513
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $85,594
    Hours/week
    30 + 5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $644,973
    Bonus
    $193,000
    Other
    $23,540
    Deferred
    $76,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,094
    Filer's total
    $947,107

  • CHARLES SEDERSTROM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 1 related

  • GARY WEST

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related

  • MARK MCCLELLAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related

  • NICK VALERIANI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 5 related

  • ZIA AGHA

    CMO & EVP CLINICAL RESEARCH

    Total calculated
    $958,995
    From this org
    $825,448
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $133,547
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $625,823
    Bonus
    $175,077
    Other
    $24,548
    Deferred
    $69,750
    Nontaxable benefits
    $63,797
    Filer's total
    $958,995

  • TIMOTHY LASH

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $888,188
    From this org
    $761,475
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $126,713
    Hours/week
    30 + 10 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $554,086
    Bonus
    $183,849
    Other
    $23,540
    Deferred
    $74,816
    Nontaxable benefits
    $51,897
    Filer's total
    $888,188

  • JONATHAN ZIFFERBLATT

    CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $707,732
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $590,701
    Other
    $117,031
    Hours/week
    30 + 10 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $441,338 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $125,500 related
    Other
    $0 + $23,863 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $69,750 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $47,281 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $707,732 related

  • SALLY HALLAK

    CFO, SECRETARY AND TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $647,394
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $546,106
    Other
    $101,288
    Hours/week
    30 + 10 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $377,477 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $145,066 related
    Other
    $0 + $23,563 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $82,250 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $19,038 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $647,394 related

  • LIANE WARDLOW

    SENIOR DIRECTOR, CLINICAL RESEARCH

    Total calculated
    $295,755
    From this org
    $259,908
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $35,847
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $226,408
    Bonus
    $33,000
    Other
    $500
    Deferred
    $6,300
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,547
    Filer's total
    $295,755

  • AMY STUCK

    SR DIR, VALUE-BASED ACUTE CARE

    Total calculated
    $290,060
    From this org
    $232,515
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $57,545
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $202,612
    Bonus
    $28,636
    Other
    $1,267
    Deferred
    $12,012
    Nontaxable benefits
    $45,533
    Filer's total
    $290,060

  • CHRISTOPHER CROWLEY

    DIR, STRAT & SR HEALTH SYS ENGINEER

    Total calculated
    $288,191
    From this org
    $252,146
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $36,045
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $230,530
    Bonus
    $18,842
    Other
    $2,774
    Deferred
    $12,529
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,516
    Filer's total
    $288,191

  • ADRIAN KWONG

    PRINCIPAL DATA SECURITY ARCHITECT

    Total calculated
    $265,910
    From this org
    $232,548
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $33,362
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $214,423
    Bonus
    $17,664
    Other
    $461
    Deferred
    $10,859
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,503
    Filer's total
    $265,910

  • HAW-MINN LU

    PRINCIPAL DATA SCIENTIST

    Total calculated
    $254,282
    From this org
    $204,732
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $49,550
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $193,659
    Bonus
    $9,877
    Other
    $1,196
    Deferred
    $10,574
    Nontaxable benefits
    $38,976
    Filer's total
    $254,282

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
    $44,564,569
    Expenses
    $42,453,440
    Contributions
    $44,266,610
    Grants paid
    $2,191
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $21,241,141
    Expenses
    $21,128,925
    Contributions
    $20,989,001
    Grants paid
    $6,893
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $17,478,241
    Expenses
    $21,199,946
    Contributions
    $17,407,144
    Grants paid
    $7,283

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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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

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.