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FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC

EIN 45-2405071 SANTA MONICA, CA

Revenue 2024
$35,282,387
Expenses 2024
$33,129,864

Program services were 98.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T30
Classification
1000
Street
1637 16TH 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).

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.

  • ELLIOTT GILSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $75,000
    From this org
    $75,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAWRENCE GILSON

    CHAIRMAN/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • JOHN WEISSENBACH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DIANA LIDOW

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEWEY CORLEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • IAN SCHAPIRO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LISA SCHAPIRO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CATHERINE PEDERSEN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $31,834
    From this org
    $31,834
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • JASON WINDEBANK

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $130,926
    From this org
    $130,926
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • WHITNEY SCHAEFER

    COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $157,500
    From this org
    $157,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $157,500
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $157,500

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. 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $35,282,387
    Expenses
    $33,129,864
    Contributions
    $34,790,831
    Grants paid
    $31,944,925
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $24,595,098
    Expenses
    $26,326,197
    Contributions
    $24,410,186
    Grants paid
    $25,363,776
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $23,626,590
    Expenses
    $22,751,956
    Contributions
    $23,425,927
    Grants paid
    $21,719,847

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

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.

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.