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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY

EIN 77-0496500 SN LUIS OBISP, CA

Revenue 2025
$10,616,659
Expenses 2025
$8,443,948

Program services were 86.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T31
Classification
1000
Street
550 DANA ST

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

TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE THROUGH PHILANTHROPIC LEADERSHIP.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE THROUGH PHILANTHROPIC LEADERSHIP - SEE SCHEDULE OTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY FULFILLS ITS MISSION BY:-ENGAGING PRIVATE GIVING FOR PUBLIC GOOD;-BUILDING AND MAINTAINING PERMANENT ENDOWMENTS TO RESPOND TO CHANGING COMMUNITY NEEDS;-PROVIDING FLEXIBLE TAX-EXEMPT VEHICLES FOR DONORS WITH VARIED CHARITABLE INTERESTS AND ABILITIES TO GIVE;-SERVING AS A CATALYST AND RESOURCE TO EFFECTIVELY RESPOND TO COMMUNITY NEEDS THROUGH SCHOLARSHIPS; AND-STRENGTHENING THE NON-PROFIT SECTOR THROUGH GRANTS AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE.

  • THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY SERVES THE ENTIRE COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, FUNDING A WIDE RANGE OF INITIATIVES, PROJECTS AND ORGANIZATIONS. THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF OUR DONORS, PAST AND PRESENT, PHILANTHROPY IS PROMOTED THAT STRENGTHENS CIVIC LIFE ACROSS THE SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY REGION IN RESPONSE TO THE EVER CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS AND NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITIES. WE FOCUS OUR GRANTMAKING ON THE FOLLOWING CORE AREAS: ARTS & CULTURE, EDUCATION, HEALTH, HUMAN SERVICES, SCHOLARSHIPS, ENVIRONMENT AND COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT.

    Expenses $7,320,464 · Grants $6,543,297

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.

  • KATH TOMPKINS

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • RICK WILLIAMS

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • ANITA ROBINSON

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • PAT HOSEGOOD MARTIN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • JEFF BUCKINGHAM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • JULIETTE DUKE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • GWEN ERSKINE

    PRESIDENT OF REF, DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 1 related

  • GRENDA ERNST

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • SUZANNE FRITZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • ROB GARCIA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • SHELLY HIGGINBOTHAM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • WAYNE LEWIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • ANNEKA SCRANTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • TOM SHERMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • LINDA SOMERS SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • CHRISTINE DAWSON

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $144,815
    From this org
    $140,915
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,900
    Hours/week
    50 + 5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $137,015
    Bonus
    $3,900
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,900
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $144,815

  • MICHAEL JONES

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $184,297
    From this org
    $178,929
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,368
    Hours/week
    50 + 5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $174,140
    Bonus
    $4,789
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,368
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $184,297

  • HEIDI MCPHERSON

    CEO (THROUGH JANUARY 2026)

    Total calculated
    $28,701
    From this org
    $27,865
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $836
    Hours/week
    50 + 5 related

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $10,616,659
    Expenses
    $8,443,948
    Contributions
    $7,159,635
    Grants paid
    $6,543,297
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,787,984
    Expenses
    $5,714,290
    Contributions
    $5,200,432
    Grants paid
    $3,711,233
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,221,396
    Expenses
    $5,369,282
    Contributions
    $3,416,190
    Grants paid
    $3,255,958
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,587,085
    Expenses
    $6,225,053
    Contributions
    $6,888,992
    Grants paid
    $4,644,572

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
    $16,881,000
    Expenses
    $4,947,132
    Assets (EOY)
    $76,668,377

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,777,401
    Expenses
    $5,874,901
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,243,485

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,494,555
    Expenses
    $3,508,139
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,002,390

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,359,829
    Expenses
    $4,111,495
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,171,545

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,521,571
    Expenses
    $6,396,773
    Assets (EOY)
    $58,999,914

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,906,360
    Expenses
    $3,203,246
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,804,715

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,364,540
    Expenses
    $3,140,386
    Assets (EOY)
    $48,092,831

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.