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S H COWELL FOUNDATION

EIN 94-1392803 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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Revenue 2024
$4,035,838
Expenses 2024
$8,277,128

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
425 CALIFORNIA ST STE 2025

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.

  • Ann Alpers

    PRESIDENT AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $595,542
    Compensation
    $497,713
    Benefit plans
    $97,829
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    35
  • Dr Lisa Backus

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr Mikiko Huang

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Scott Mosher

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Charles E Ellwein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lydia Tan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kim Thompson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Charles Higueras

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Colin Lacon

    DIRECTOR (FROM 10/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jamie Allison

    DIRECTOR (FROM 10/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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
    $4,035,838
    Expenses
    $8,277,128
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $5,172,714
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,117,798
    Expenses
    $8,318,326
    Contributions
    $2,500
    Grants paid
    $5,162,425
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,117,798
    Expenses
    $8,318,326
    Contributions
    $2,500
    Grants paid
    $5,162,425
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,890,507
    Expenses
    $8,294,978
    Contributions
    not reported
    Grants paid
    $5,692,071

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
  • 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
  • 2021 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $3,991,479
    Expenses
    $7,750,918
    Assets (EOY)
    $135,992,307
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $10,329,763
    Expenses
    $7,646,058
    Assets (EOY)
    $133,527,290
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990-PF

    Revenue
    $12,334,958
    Expenses
    $7,562,235
    Assets (EOY)
    $128,025,014

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.

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 13 October 2026, under deductibility PF.

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.