Giving Design
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815308477
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Culver City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3105585503
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $137,379
- Expenses
- $113,950
- Assets
- $24,405
- Liabilities
- $240
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christine Hardin (President)
People named in this filing
- Christine Hardin (President)
- Gary Goldberg (Board Member)
- Lee Brennan (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Giving Design works to create healing environments by making design and architectural services and products available to non-profit organizations that provide a community benefit by improving health and well-being. We do this by partnering with businesses, skilled volunteers and other non-profits to connect design beneficiaries with the services, products and labor they need. Our mission is to connect the skills and resources of our design community with those who might not otherwise have financial access to design's positive impact.
What it reported doing in 2025
Design Service provided to Cayenne Wellness Center in Glendale, CA - Preliminary Design Concept Initial site meeting with Cayenne to acquaint Giving Design with the project and premises. We conducted virtual meetings (over Zoom) to establish and confirm space utilization to meet their specific functional requirements. (Example: anticipated room uses, furniture needs, electrical location needs, privacy needs, lighting needs, storage requirements etc.) This resulted in a document called Space Program. We developed a Design Concept based on the Space Program to validate the way their functional needs are accommodated in the building. This test fit offered alternatives for space utilization. We conducted Furniture Meetings via Zoom to review plans for furniture layout options using eco-friendly furniture products and biophilic elements. We provided them with a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) cost evaluation of construction, furniture and art as a guide for project budgeting. We provided an anticipated schedule estimate for the project. This was completed by Giving Design at a very discounted rate for the Client -Cayenne Wellness Center.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.4%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 75.2%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.4% of revenue deployed · 75.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $86K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.