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FORMATIVE FOUNDATION

EIN 26-1115393 GOLETA, CA

Revenue 2024
$488,002
Expenses 2024
$1,016,236

Program services were 81.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 313

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).

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.

  • MIKE BROWN

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LIZ SALENTINE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JAMIE FLINT

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • LISA COUCH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GREG HARTLEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ECKART MEIBURG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHELLE PICKETT

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • JOHN MCCLURE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JILL O'GORMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GARY SIMPSON

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $101,604
    From this org
    $101,604
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

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 — 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
    $488,002
    Expenses
    $1,016,236
    Contributions
    $302,956
    Grants paid
    $498,923
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $830,768
    Expenses
    $853,135
    Contributions
    $640,539
    Grants paid
    $357,334
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $643,032
    Expenses
    $1,008,317
    Contributions
    $525,200
    Grants paid
    $401,170

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.

Grants made

  • SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL DISTRICT

    $498,923

    2024 EQUIPPING AND OPERATING THE FACILITY FOR THE DOS PUEBLOS ENGINEERING ACADEMY AND STEAM MUSEUM.

  • SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL DISTRICT

    $401,170

    2022 EQUIPPING AND OPERATING THE FACILITY FOR THE DOS PUEBLOS ENGINEERING ACADEMY AND STEAM MUSEUM.

  • SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL DISTRICT

    $357,334

    2023 EQUIPPING AND OPERATING THE FACILITY FOR THE DOS PUEBLOS ENGINEERING ACADEMY AND STEAM MUSEUM.

Where these grants went next →

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 10 September 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.