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Culver City Forward

2019-presentActive filing history through fiscal 2024; current corporate-record-derived listing also documented in 2026 relationship records

Culver City civic nonprofit described by its own website as a public-private partnership bringing together business, government, educational, philanthropic and community leaders. IRS filings document Thomas Aujero Small as a compensated executive and later director, Michael Hackman in senior governance roles, and recurring board service by Kelly Kent, Yolanda Gorman and Justinian Jampol. Later IRS-derived filings extend the governance record through fiscal 2024.

Nonprofit organizationDirect governance and financial relationships documented in IRS and corporate filings

Record Details

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IRS-derived summary pages may show only a subset of officers; omitted names are not interpreted as departures without the full filing.

Address Note

8611 Washington Boulevard is the public website/contact address; a March 2026 corporate-record-derived listing gives a principal/mailing address c/o Hackman Capital Partners at 4060 Ince Boulevard.

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$300,865 Small compensation, 2019–2021$10,000 Small loan to organization, 2021

Record Notes

IRS filings materially connect Small and Hackman through recurring governance rather than simple co-presence. In 2020 Small was CEO/President, Hackman Chairman, Kent Secretary, and Gorman and Jampol board members. In 2021 Small and Hackman were directors, Kent remained Secretary, Gorman was Co-Chair, and Jampol was a Director. IRS-derived fiscal 2022 and 2023 filings continue to list Hackman as Director, Kent as Secretary and Gorman as Co-Chair. The fiscal 2024 filing page displays Kent as Secretary, Gorman as Co-Chair and James Limbaugh as Director; because the summary page provides a 'View more people' control, absence of another name from the displayed subset is not treated as proof that the person left the board. The 2020 filing states Hackman had a business interest in The Culver Studios, identified as a contributor to Culver City Forward. Small received $300,865 in combined/reportable compensation across 2019–2021 and the 2021 filing reports his $10,000 loan to the organization. IRS-derived pages label Schedule L reportable interested-party transactions in several years; that reporting category is preserved without treating it as evidence of misconduct. Culver City Forward's own public description lists aging infrastructure, housing, traffic, fiscal needs and sustainability among issues it was organized to address. Those policy subjects do not establish any role for Culver City Forward in the September 2026 closed-session negotiations or any proposed disposition/use of the properties.

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Culver City Forward Fiscal 2024 Form 990

IRS Form 990 filing for Culver City Forward, filed November 17, 2025. IRS-derived data reports $6,992 revenue, $5,619 expenses, $1,070 assets, $10,245 liabilities and negative $9,1…

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Culver City Forward Incorporation

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Culver City Forward Officer Filing

California Secretary of State filing records preserved in the Greenberg archive identify Michael D. Hackman as Chief Executive Officer and Brent Iloulian as Secretary for Culver Ci…

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Culver City Forward Officer Transition

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Culver City Forward Officer Filing

California corporate filing records preserved in the Greenberg archive identify Thomas Aujero Small as Chief Executive Officer and Kelly Kent as Secretary for Culver City Forward i…

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Greenberg Public Records Act Request Regarding Small and Hackman Discussions

Les Greenberg submitted a California Public Records Act request seeking records related to discussions concerning Thomas Small, Michael Hackman/Hackman Capital Partners, and potent…

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Greenberg PRA Request Regarding Small Hackman CCF Discussions

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Thomas Small / Hackman / Culver City Forward Ethics Complaint Chain

A documented correspondence chain concerning a complaint by Les Greenberg regarding Thomas Small, Michael Hackman/Hackman Capital Partners, Culver City Forward, and City ethics pol…

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VX2022 — Climate Change Impacts & Opportunities: Urban Planning Paradigm

VerdeXchange's VX2022 urban-planning panel placed Rick Cole and Thomas Aujero Small on the same panel. Gail Goldberg, former Executive Director of ULI Los Angeles, moderated; Vince…

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ULI Los Angeles FY2024 Advisory Board

ULI Los Angeles records list Thomas Small of Culver City Forward and Rick Cole of the City of Los Angeles as At-Large members of the ULI Los Angeles Advisory Board for July 2023 th…

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VerdeXchange VX2026

VerdeXchange VX2026 listed Thomas Aujero Small, CEO of Culver City Forward and former Culver City mayor, and Rick Cole, Pasadena councilmember, among its speakers. On June 2, Cole …

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verdexchange-digital-twin-2023

VerdeXchange program records identify Thomas Aujero Small as moderator of a panel titled 'How Planning with Digital Twins Will Change Cities & The World.' Panelists included repres…

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Culver City Forward 2019 Form 990

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Hackman Capital Partners

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VerdeXchange

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Wende Museum

Culver City museum and nonprofit led by founder and executive director Justinian Jampol. City records document a long-term public-private campus relationship at Culver Boulevard, i…

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Brent Daniel Iloulian

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Justinian Jampol

Founder and Executive Director of the Wende Museum and documented Culver City Forward board participant. City project records identify Jampol as the Wende Museum applicant for the …

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Kelly Kent

Culver City Unified School District board member and recurring Culver City Forward officer. Culver City Forward identifies Kent as elected to the CCUSD Governing Board in November …

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Michael Hackman

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Thomas Aujero Small

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Yolanda Gorman

Culver City strategic-planning facilitator and recurring Culver City Forward board leader. City records identify Dr. Yolanda Gorman as facilitator and preparer of the City's 2018-2…

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Brent Daniel Iloulian — Hackman Capital Partners — Culver City Forward formation

Archived California State Bar material lists Hackman Capital Partners as Brent Daniel Iloulian's professional address and a Hackman-domain email. Culver City Forward corporate reco…

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Culver City Forward public-institution leadership network

Documented crossover among Culver City Forward governance and major Culver City public or civic institutions. Thomas Small combined elected City service with compensated Culver Cit…

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Michael Hackman — Culver City Forward governance

IRS-derived nonprofit filings identify Michael Hackman and Thomas Aujero Small as directors of Culver City Forward and Kelly Kent as secretary during the organization's filing hist…

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Thomas Small — Michael Hackman — Culver City Forward governance and compensation, 2019–2021

IRS Form 990 records materially strengthen the documented Thomas Small–Michael Hackman relationship through Culver City Forward. Small received $300,865 in combined/reportable comp…

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Thomas Small — Michael Hackman — Odis Jones contemporaneous 2026 overlap

The 2026 property-negotiation record sits against a longer documented Small-Hackman institutional history. IRS filings show Thomas Small and Michael Hackman serving together in Cul…

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Thomas Small and Rick Cole — recurring urbanism forum network

Small and Cole are documented repeatedly in the same regional and international urbanism/planning circuit: programmed consecutively in the same May 2022 International Making Cities…

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Thomas Small and Rick Cole — ULI Los Angeles Advisory Board overlap

Thomas Small and Rick Cole are documented as simultaneous At-Large members of the ULI Los Angeles Advisory Board during FY2024.

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Thomas Small — Rick Cole recurring VerdeXchange network overlap

Public conference records document recurring professional-network overlap between Thomas Aujero Small and Rick Cole through VerdeXchange. They appeared together on a VX2022 urban-p…

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