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GIVSUM FOUNDATION

EIN 27-3460415 COSTA MESA, CA

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Revenue 2025
$1,980,983
Expenses 2025
$1,972,530

Program services were 98.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T50
Classification
1000
Street
2070 MEADOW VIEW LN

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 · 2025

Mission

The Givsum Foundations mission is to help individuals to innovate on community problems by providing an ecosystem for success. The Givsum Foundation is a social enterprise incubator we vet new and exciting ideas for the local community provide leadership training and fiscal sponsorships for new ventures. The Givsum Foundation has the unique opportunity to be leading the future of philanthropy by focusing on innovative solutions that market to the next generation. The following organizations: ECB Tournament Tails That Teach and Entheos are the largest funded organizations in the Givsum Foundation network.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Givsum Foundations mission is to help individuals to innovate on community problems by providing an ecosystem for success. The Givsum Foundation is a social enterprise incubator we vet new and exciting ideas for the local community provide leadership training and fiscal sponsorships for new ventures. The Givsum Foundation has the unique opportunity to be leading the future of philanthropy by focusing on innovative solutions that market to the next generation.

  • ECB Golf Tournament raises funds for artists and musicians in need.

    Expenses $277,858 · Revenue $295,559

  • Tails That Teach inspires kids to be kind to pets and people saving the lives of animals changing the lives of children. Tails that Teach helps bridge that connection through eduction programs and our compensation-centered books Love Me Gently as well as Gray Whiskers.

    Expenses $281,608 · Revenue $241,014

  • The Entheos Community is a global collective of makers healers artists cultivators scientists and leaders of six continents from more than forty different countries. The organization works in medical psychological research innovates at the intersection of technology and culture and facilitates experiences with the sacred and study of evolution of consciousness.

    Expenses $196,984 · Revenue $196,984

  • Basic fiscal sponsorship programs for advancing nonprofit startups with events and operations.

    Expenses $1,184,580 · Revenue $1,184,580

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Kristin Epperson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shawn Wehan

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $31,500
    From this org
    $31,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Marie Ryan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,980,983
    Expenses
    $1,972,530
    Contributions
    $1,980,983
    Grants paid
    $1,909,338
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,139,268
    Expenses
    $1,155,608
    Contributions
    $1,139,268
    Grants paid
    $1,139,268
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $939,765
    Expenses
    $937,548
    Contributions
    $939,765
    Grants paid
    $928,485
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $899,743
    Expenses
    $838,219
    Contributions
    $899,743
    Grants paid
    $838,219

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $185,430
    Expenses
    $120,457
    Assets (EOY)
    $139,461

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021

Tax period
1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
Principal officer
Shawn Wehan
Mailing address
3424 VIA OPORTO G204NEWPORT BEACH CA 926633941

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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 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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.