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← SEWHOPE INC

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by SEWHOPE INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$390,539
Total expenses
$479,831
Contributions and grants received
$269,900
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$6,302
Other revenue
$114,337
Total assets, end of year
$657,902
Total liabilities, end of year
$3,319
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$654,583
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$403,468
Management and general expenses
$26,690
Fundraising expenses
$49,673
Program service expenses (Part III)
$403,468

Program services were 84.1% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $269,900

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $10,000

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $6,302 · excluded $6,302

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $131,936

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $20,169

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $111,767 · excluded $111,767

  • 11a · Other revenue: REIMBURSED FEES

    total $2,570 · excluded $2,570

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $2,570

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $35,469 · program services $2,837 · management and general $14,897 · fundraising $17,735

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $2,880 · program services $230 · management and general $1,210 · fundraising $1,440

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $225 · management and general $225

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $4,180 · management and general $4,180

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $972 · program services $972

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $7,593 · program services $2,211 · management and general $364 · fundraising $5,018

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $4,868 · management and general $4,868

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $120 · management and general $120

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $10,576 · program services $10,576

  • 24a · Other expenses: PROGRAM SERVICES

    total $360,067 · program services $360,067

  • 24b · Other expenses: CONTRACT LABOR

    total $46,755 · program services $23,225 · fundraising $23,530

  • 24c · Other expenses: BANK FEES

    total $3,679 · program services $1,398 · management and general $331 · fundraising $1,950

  • 24d · Other expenses: TELECOMMUNICATIONS

    total $3,285 · program services $3,285

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total -$838 · program services -$1,333 · management and general $495

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $102,940 · end of year $104,847

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $232,616 · end of year $149,583

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $89,813 · end of year $89,813

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $425,688

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $112,029

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $191,884 · end of year $313,659

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $129,819

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $3,197 · end of year $3,319

  • 29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds

    beginning of year $743,875

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    end of year $654,583

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

OUR MISSION IS TO PARTNER WITH THE POOR, MARGINALIZED AND EXPLOITED IN GUATEMALA TO HELP END THE INJUSTICES OF POVERTY AND BRING ABOUT SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES.

  • SEWHOPE PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2023: - 3 MISSION TRIPS, TOTAL OF 16 INDIVIDUALS COMPROMISED TEAMS OF MEDICAL, EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS AND LAY VOLUNTEERS FROM THE U.S. TRAVELED TO PETEN GUATEMALA WORKING ON CERVICAL CANCER, EDUCATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH PROJECTS IN 2023 EDUCATION: - OPENED AS A PRIVATE SCHOOL K-3RD GRADE WITH A CONTINUED REINFORCEMENT PROGRAM FOR 4-6TH GRADE (BEGAN WITH 149 STUDENTS ENDED WITH 132 STUDENTS) - TEACHERS HAVE BEEN IMPROVING THEIR SKILLS ON THE KHAN ACADEMY - ADDED 17 ADDITIONAL COMPUTERS (HAVE 90) AND ADDED TEACHER DESKS AND CHAIRS - REGULAR EDUCATION MEETINGS HAVE BEEN HELD BETWEEN U.S. EDUCATION DIRECTOR, COMMITTEE AND GUATEMALAN SCHOOL PRINCIPAL AND TEAM WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF ADI AS OUR TRANSLATOR - RAZ KIDS - 48,050 BOOKS LISTENED TO: 47,007 BOOKS READ - KHAN ACADEMY MATH SKILLS IMPROVED ON 5,445; MASTERED 4,574 - STUDENTS WERE INVOLVED IN AGRICULATURAL PROJECTS, RAISING CHICKENS AND LEARNING HOW TO GROW/MAINTAIN PLANTS.

    Expenses $163,813

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $133,825

  • PUBLIC HEALTH/COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: - BEGAN DOING NEEDS EVALUATION OF FAMILIES OF OUR STUDENTS - 20 CHISPA STOVES INSTALLED IN HOMES OF FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN IN OUR PROGRAM - 20 ECOFILTERS ALSO INSTALLED IN HOMES - CURRENT COMMUNITY FILTERS MAINTAINED - 500 CHICKENS RAISED: - 150 RAISED BY STUDENTS - 350 RAISED BY FAMILIES AND WOMEN FOR THEIR OWN USE - 1,200 TILAPIS RAISED TO 1 POUND WERE SOLD OR USED TO FEED THE STUDENTS - 49 STUDENTS WERE INVOLVED IN PUBLIC HEALTH PROJECTS. THEY SHARED PROFITS AND RECEIVED A CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION - 30 WOMEN AND/OR FAMILIES WERE INVOLVED/IMPACTED BY PUBLIC HEALTH PROJECTS - 135,000 MEALS DISTRIBUTED TO FAMILIES IN NEED - A WOMAN'S CO-OP GROUP WAS FORMED BY OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR - OBJECTIVES - TEACH RESPONSIBILITY, COOPERATION, SAVING HABIT, PROBLEM SOLVING, BUSINESS SKILLS, UNDERSTAND LOANS/INTEREST, BUILD SELF-ESTEEM AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS; ENABLE MEMBERS TO EARN MONEY - FIVE WOMEN INITIALLY; THEY MEET REGULARLY UNDER CARMEN'S LEADERSHIP AND CONTRIBUTE SMALL AMOUNTS OF MONEY (Q25 OR 3.50 PER MEETING) - MONEY IS POOLED AND LOANED TO EACH OTHER FOR SMALL BUSINESS IDEAS LIKE SELLING GOODS, FOOD, RAFFLES; INTEREST IS CHARGED AS LOANS ARE PAID BACK

    Expenses $91,834

  • - A FOOD PACKING EVENT WAS HELD IN THE UNITED STATES. THE FOOD IS A DRIED COMBINATION OF EASILY DIGESTIBLE PROTEIN, CARBOHYDRATES, AND VITAMINS NEEDED BY AN UNDERNOURISHED CHILD'S BODY AND MIND. 60,000 MEALS WERE PACKED IN 4 HOURS BY 250 VOLUNTEERS. AN ADDITIONAL 190,000 MEALS WERE DONATED AND ALL WERE SHIPPED TO GUATEMOLA ALONG WITH SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT FOR USE IN OUR PROGRAMS IN GUATEMALA.

    Expenses $13,996

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

  • Timothy Kuhn Be

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Gloria Buganski

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Anne Ruch MD

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • David Mallory MD

    MEDICAL & ED

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Gary Collins MD

    DIRECTOR OF

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Randall Ruch PhD MPH

    VICE CHAIRMA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Roxanne Ward Med

    DIRECTOR OF

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Dorothea Sawicki PhD

    EDUCATION CO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Gregory Smith PhD

    EDUCATION CO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Disregarded entities

Part I: entities that legally are the filer and file no return of their own.

  • ASSOCIATION CIVIL SEWHOPE ASSOCIATION CIVIL SEWHOPE

    INDIGENT R · income $10,937

    Directly controlled by ASSOCIATIO ASSOCIATION

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
29 October 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202443119349301699

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