Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$611,874

Total expenses

$491,357

Contributions and grants received

$611,833

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$41

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$158,100

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,176

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$156,924

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$466,789

Management and general expenses

$19,304

Fundraising expenses

$5,264

Program service expenses (Part III)

$466,789

Program services were 95.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• SOSAZ ORGANIZED VOLUNTEERS AROUND ARIZONA TO FORM LOCALLY BASED GROUPS TO FOLLOW EDUCATION POLICY IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. THESE VOLUNTEER NETWORKS EXTENDED OUTREACH TO THEIR COMMUNITIES BY CONTACTING AND SCHEDULING MEETINGS WITH A VARIETY OF AUDIENCES, FROM ALL POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS, INCLUDING NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS, SCHOOL BOARDS, PARENT AND TEACHER GROUPS, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES, AND OTHERS. SOSAZ ASSISTED VOLUNTEERS WITH MESSAGING EFFECTIVENESS AND ADVISED THEM ON PRACTICES TO PRESENT INFORMATION TO GROUPS AT ALL LEVELS OF KNOWLEDGE.

  Expenses $298,821

• SOSAZ UTILIZED ITS EXPERTISE AND RESOURCES TO RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION AND SUPPORT PRO-PUBLIC EDUCATION OFFICEHOLDERS AND CANDIDATES THROUGHOUT ARIZONA. THIS INCLUDED PRODUCING FLYERS AND CANVASSING MATERIALS, COORDINATING SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS AND ADVERTISING, DEVELOPING EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, AND HOLDING FORUMS AND PUBLIC EVENTS TO AMPLIFY THE MYRIAD WAYS THAT PUBLIC EDUCATION DRIVES SOCIAL COHESION AND THE GROWTH, SUCCESS, AND PROGRESS OF THE STATE.

  Expenses $151,547

• SOSAZ ADVOCATED FOR INCREASING PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING AND FOUGHT AGAINST ATTEMPTS TO DRAIN FUNDING FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE WORK CONSISTED OF INFORMING LEGISLATORS, ATTENDING AND SPEAKING AT LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGS, AND ORGANIZING OTHERS FROM AN ACTIVE, STATEWIDE VOLUNTEER NETWORK TO DO THE SAME. SOSAZ HAS BECOME AN AUTHORITATIVE SOURCE FOR INSIGHT AND INFORMATION ABOUT EDUCATION PRIVATIZATION AND ITS IMPACT ON COMMUNITIES, THE ECONOMY, AND ARIZONA'S SOCIAL COHESION. SOSAZ FREQUENTLY COLLABORATED WITH NUMEROUS ORGANIZATIONS AROUND ARIZONA, INCLUDING THE AZ CENTER FOR ECONOMIC PROGRESS, ARIZONA SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION, PTA, AND OTHERS TO DRIVE COLLECTIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE INNUMERABLE WAYS THAT PRIVATIZERS USE TO DRAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDING.

  Expenses $16,421

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK

  501(C)(3) · EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH · AZ

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

15 November 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202313199349328221

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