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THE GIVING SPIRIT

EIN 61-1405121 LOS ANGELES, CA

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Revenue 2024
$770,194
Expenses 2024
$846,857

Program services were 80.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P80
Classification
1000
Street
11693 SAN VICENTE BLVD 113

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 · 2024

Mission

The Giving Spirits mission is to provide essential support, compassion, and human connection to individuals experiencing homelessness while educating the broader community about the causes, challenges, and solutions surrounding homelessness.

  • The Giving Spirit delivers large-scale outreach programs focused on providing essential survival items to unhoused individuals across Los Angeles. Outreach efforts target key populations including individuals lacking basic care, women and girls, homeless LAUSD students, and companion animals owned by people experiencing homelessness. Volunteers assemble and distribute comprehensive care kits while receiving educational briefings on homelessness during event programming. These initiatives provide critical resources and foster community awareness and engagement.

    Expenses $590,058 · Grants $257,004

  • The organizations education program creates transformative learning experiences designed to deepen public understanding of homelessness. This includes: (1) live educational sessions integrated into outreach events; (2) production of video content addressing homelessness, outreach practices, and lived-experience stories; and (3) development of an online digital curriculum for schools and eventually corporations and broader audiences. A beta module on Homeless Youth is currently in review and testing. These programs equip communities with knowledge to drive informed action and long-term solutions.

    Expenses $84,520

  • The Youth Council is a structured leadership program for high school students selected annually from across Los Angeles. Under staff guidance, council members meet monthly to study homelessness, set service goals, and lead outreach activities designed to support unhoused individuals. The program develops socially conscious young leaders while strengthening community service efforts and encouraging long-term civic engagement.

    Expenses $3,934

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Thomas Bagamane

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $136,194
    From this org
    $136,194
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Tim Ingram

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $71,240
    From this org
    $71,240
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Dawn Ferry

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Garrett Jameson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $770,194
    Expenses
    $846,857
    Contributions
    $735,858
    Grants paid
    $257,004
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $954,692
    Expenses
    $840,477
    Contributions
    $947,871
    Grants paid
    $310,583
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $804,826
    Expenses
    $1,017,845
    Contributions
    $868,539
    Grants paid
    $474,603

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
    $1,000,806
    Expenses
    $1,030,874
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,252,058

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $857,159
    Expenses
    $776,860
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,203,729

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $245,217
    Assets (EOY)
    $203,851

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $256,076
    Assets (EOY)
    $178,735

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 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.