WAKING UP FOUNDATION

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2024 · Form 990PF · revenue $1.4M · expenses $714K · assets $1.3M

EIN

26-1643643

Address

16633 VENTURA BLVD STE 815, ENCINO, CA 91436-1845

Website

WWW.WAKINGUP.COM/FOUNDATION

NTEE code

B99 Education N.E.C. (Education) published (IRS Business Master File)

FURP topic

science: research education · women: issues (from its 990 text; the topic index)

Exempt type

501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (corporation)

Ruling date

February 2008 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

Exempt (unconditional) (IRS Business Master File) IRS data ↗

Tax-deductible donations

Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (private foundation) Pub 78 ↗

Foundation status

Private non-operating foundation

Principal officer

Sam Harris (its 2007 Form 990-N)

Form 990-N e-postcards

1 filed, 2007 (organizations with gross receipts normally $50,000 or less file this instead of a full Form 990) IRS data ↗

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Mission

PROJECT REASON IS A 501(C)(3) NONPROFIT FOUNDATION DEVOTED TO SPREADING SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SECULAR VALUES IN SOCIETY. DRAWING ON THE TALENTS OF THE MOST PROMINENT AND CREATIVE THINKERS ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF DISCIPLINES, PROJECT REASON SEEKS TO ENCOURAGE CRITICAL THINKING AND WISE PUBLIC POLICY THROUGH A VARIETY OF INTERRELATED PROJECTS. THE FOUNDATION WILL CONVENE CONFERENCES, PRODUCE FILMS, SPONSOR SCIENTIFIC STUDIES AND OPINION POLLS, PUBLISH ORIGINAL RESEARCH, AWARD GRANTS TO OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS AND OFFER MATERIAL SUPPORT TO RELIGIOUS DISSIDENTS AND PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS - ALL WITH THE PURPOSE OF ERODING THE INFLUENCE OF DOGMATISM, SUPERSTITION AND BIGOTRY IN OUR WORLD.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

None of the 2 people listed on these returns reported compensation from the organization. They are listed below.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

2 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

Highest-paid independent contractors

No independent contractors reported.

Who the money went to

Grants this organization reported paying: Schedule I Part II of the Form 990, or the grants-paid list on the 990-PF. Open a year for every recipient. Recipients link to their own page when the grant names an EIN we have (990-PF grants list no EIN, so those link only on an exact, unique name and state). Grants to individuals are counted; their names are not shown.

Negative amounts are returned or refunded grants; they are listed last and left out of the totals of grants paid.

Who gave

Contributors listed on Schedule B of the Form 990-PF: name, city and state as filed (street addresses are not shown), with total and noncash contributions for the year. A link to an organization's page is tagged Fuzzy with its name-similarity score (0 to 1) when it rests on name and state; Schedule B lists no EIN, so no link here is an exact identifier match.

Contributors listed here are as reported on the filing. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Connected to

Organizations that list some of the same people on their returns (officers, directors, key employees on this organization’s latest return), and related organizations it lists on Schedule R.

• SUSAN HARRIS FOUNDATION Encino, CA · 1 person in common (Sam Harris)

Funders of this organization

1 grantor reported grants to this organization, $215,666 in all, tax years 2010 to 2015. Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.