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Form 990-PF for tax year 2024

Filed by MICHELSON PHILANTHROPIES INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$8,224,722
Total expenses
$7,027,220
Contributions and grants received
$8,222,290
Contributions, gifts and grants paid
$3,308,580
Fair market value of assets, end of year
$4,037,394

Listed in Part VIII

  • Gary Karlin Michelson M D

    DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT & CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Geoffrey Baum

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $323,174
    Compensation
    $276,160
    Benefit plans
    $47,014
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • David Cohen

    Secretary & Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Alya Michelson

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Brett Yates

    COO/CFO

    Total calculated
    $68,126
    Compensation
    $61,129
    Benefit plans
    $6,997
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Darice Bailey

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $236,680
    Compensation
    $208,190
    Benefit plans
    $28,490
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Denise Hernandez

    COO

    Total calculated
    $161,503
    Compensation
    $149,971
    Benefit plans
    $11,532
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VIII of the Form 990-PF: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.

Grants paid on this return

Grants paid, cash basis (Part I, line 25, column (d))
$3,308,580
As filed, and sometimes filed as 0.
Grants paid, Part XV total (line 3a)
$3,308,580
The foundation's own total of the grants it itemizes.

These are the grants the foundation paid during the year. The “Contributions, gifts and grants paid” total above is the figure on the foundation's books. This return marks the accrual method, under which a grant is recorded when the foundation commits to it rather than when it pays, so the books total need not agree with the cash figures in this section: a grant promised one year and paid in another is counted in different years.

  • THE MICHELSON 20MM FOUNDATION INC

    $1,384,055

    LOS ANGELES, CA

    CARRY FORTH MULTIPLE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, INCLUDING DIGITAL EQUITY PROGRAM, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROGRAM, OPEN EDUCATION PROGRAM, STUDENT BASIC PROGRAMS, SMART JUSTICE PROGRAM AND PROGRAMS INTENDED TO SUPPORT PRIVATE-SECTOR SOLUTIONS TO ISSUE WITHIN THE EDUCATION SECTOR.

  • THE MICHELSON FOUND ANIMALS FOUNDATION INC

    $1,031,256

    LOS ANGELES, CA

    BENEFIT OF ANIMALS THROUGH MULTIPLE ANIMAL WELFARE PROGRAMS, INCLUDING THE MICHELSON PRIZE AND GRANTS IN REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY, THE ADOPTION PROGRAM, THE START-UP ACCELERATOR PROGRAM, AND OTHERS TOWARD THE MICHELSON FOUND ANIMALS FOUNDATION, INC.'S PURPOSE OF REDUCING EUTHANASIA RATES IN LOS ANGELES AREA ANIMAL SHELTERS.

  • HUMAN IMMUNOME PROJECT INC

    $690,000

    NEW YORK, NY

    GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

  • American Association for the Advancement of Scienc

    $62,000

    WASHINGTON, DC

    GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

  • THE REPRESENTATION PROJECT

    $50,000

    Sacramento, CA

    GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

  • First Gen Fund

    $25,000

    Sacramento, CA

    GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

  • COMMUNITY PARTNERS

    $15,000

    LOS ANGELES, CA

    GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

  • America Share USA Inc

    $14,000

    NEW YORK, NY

    GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

  • World Brain Mapping Foundation (WBMF)

    $12,500

    Pacific Palisades, CA

    GENERAL OPEARTING SUPPORT

  • UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC

    $9,000

    Washington, DC

    GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

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Provenance

Return type
form_990_pf
Tax year
2024
Filed
17 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202533229349100408

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