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FOR-SITE FOUNDATION

EIN 84-1617222 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,283,910
Expenses 2024
$695,326

Program services were 46.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A25
Classification
2000
Street
2 MARINA BLVD BDLG C STE 255

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

Our exhibitions and commissions, artist residencies, and education programs are based in the belief that art can inspire fresh thinking and important dialogue about our natural and cultural environment.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The FOR-SITE Foundation is dedicated to the creation, understanding, and presentation of art about place.

  • Exhibitions/Commissions: The FOR-SITE Foundations acclaimed exhibitions and installations offer new ways to experience the natural and cultural resources of public parks and historic places. With groundbreaking projects commissioned for San Franciscos Presidio, Fort Point, and Alcatraz Island, FOR-SITE has created an innovative model for artistic collaborations on national park land.

    Expenses $322,883 · Grants $191,455

  • Publications: The FOR-SITE Foundation is dedicated to the idea that art can inspire fresh thinking and important dialogue about our natural and cultural environment. The print and film publications produced in association with FOR-SITE'S exhibitions and commissions further extend the discourse initiated by these temporary projects.

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.

  • Cheryl Haines

    President & ED

    Total calculated
    $90,000
    From this org
    $90,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • James L Miller

    Sec/Treas

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Anne Robinson Wood

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jane Scott

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sarah Woodward

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joanna Drake

    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
    $1,283,910
    Expenses
    $695,326
    Contributions
    $1,055,955
    Grants paid
    $191,455
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $836,105
    Expenses
    $682,484
    Contributions
    $794,497
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $883,861
    Expenses
    $783,128
    Contributions
    $610,293
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $1,027,052
    Expenses
    $923,927
    Assets (EOY)
    $821,632

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $441,482
    Expenses
    $444,635
    Assets (EOY)
    $615,133

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $563,960
    Expenses
    $678,765
    Assets (EOY)
    $616,260

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,840,316
    Expenses
    $1,458,739
    Assets (EOY)
    $751,411

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $988,945
    Expenses
    $907,977
    Assets (EOY)
    $369,501

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,313,370
    Expenses
    $1,491,228
    Assets (EOY)
    $307,161

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $833,770
    Expenses
    $1,300,671
    Assets (EOY)
    $456,343

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,198,472
    Expenses
    $3,571,296
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,261,566

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $886,384
    Expenses
    $867,261
    Assets (EOY)
    $318,886

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.