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CARMEL IDEAS FOUNDATION

EIN 01-0903800 PEBBLE BEACH, CA

Revenue 2023
$447,975
Expenses 2023
$470,140

Program services were 92.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A60
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 509

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 · 2023

Mission

The Carmel Ideas Foundation's mission is to improve literacy, inspire hope, and encourage the development and exchange of great ideas for the residents of Monterey County and beyond, and to provide further educational opportunities for the under-served students of Monterey County.

  • The organization presents the annual Pebble Beach Authors & Ideas Festival, formerly the Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival, at the end of September each year. More than twenty well known authors, thinkers, innovators and musicians present in a variety of venues over a three-day weekend. Presentations take place in a theater seating all attendees, as well as in small breakout groups. Scholarships are provided to educators each year. Speakers are introduced by students. The three-day Festival is preceded by the Student Ideas Festival, which enables 1300 Monterey County middle and high school students to be inspired in person by some of the best minds of our time. Additionally, the Student Ideas Festival is live-streamed to schools throughout the County, as well as recorded and distributed for later use in the classroom.The goal of the organization is to provide intellectually stimulating settings and opportunities for participation of all ages to learn, discuss, and generate new ideas while honoring a literary past and growing a literary future.

    Expenses $435,827

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • SCOTT EVERS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JOHN HANNA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DAN LINDSAY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • James P McGillen

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Cynthia McGillen

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $447,975
    Expenses
    $470,140
    Contributions
    $413,775
    Grants paid
    $4,087
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $457,150
    Expenses
    $429,589
    Contributions
    $394,700
    Grants paid
    $5,000

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
    $426,408
    Expenses
    $463,603
    Assets (EOY)
    $128,316

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $412,449
    Expenses
    $291,934
    Assets (EOY)
    $144,435

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $471,375
    Expenses
    $534,955
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,211

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $523,693
    Expenses
    $521,513
    Assets (EOY)
    $82,411

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $493,788
    Expenses
    $499,207
    Assets (EOY)
    $95,261

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $471,900
    Expenses
    $546,116
    Assets (EOY)
    $114,168

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $492,650
    Expenses
    $441,590
    Assets (EOY)
    $151,376

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $448,350
    Expenses
    $458,894
    Assets (EOY)
    $114,318

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

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.