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EMBRACING OSTOMY LIFE

EIN 92-3860731 DEL MAR, CA

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Revenue 2024
$313,491
Expenses 2024
$268,556

Program services were 82.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E11
Classification
1000
Street
3840 VIA DE LA VALLE STE 300

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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 300). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Our mission is to ensure that every person facing ostomy surgery has the hope and confidence that they can return to a life they love without limitations.

  • Accomplishments in 2024:1.All technology was finalized to launch programs Team HOPE and Alive & Kicking.2.Had booth at the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeon 3.Increased database significantly with potential partners (Surgeons and WOC nurses)4.Strengthened partnership with United Ostomy Associations of America5.Applied for Grants and Awards with the NFL and World Ostomy Association6.Met with prospective donors7.Contributed articles to The Phoenix Magazine8.Speaking events for president, Rolf Benirschke at the Texas Gastroenterology Meeting and CHIME9.Explored new partnerships

    Expenses $221,402

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.

  • Patti McCord

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Rolf Benirschke

    Director Chairp

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Luis Garcia

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Yoga Ivatury

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sonia Ramamoorthy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jaime Wheeler

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Doug Wall

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jearlean Taylor

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rolf Benirschke

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Doug Wall

    CFO, Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Margaret Cypher

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

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
    $313,491
    Expenses
    $268,556
    Contributions
    $311,982
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $316,050
    Expenses
    $204,403
    Contributions
    $315,800
    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

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.