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← SAN JOSE CENTER FOR POETRY AND LITERATURE

Form 990-EZ for tax year 2022

Filed by SAN JOSE CENTER FOR POETRY AND LITERATURE.

Totals

Total revenue
$59,905
Total expenses
$47,891
Contributions and grants received
$32,108
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$10,603
Membership dues (line 3)
$17,194
Investment income (line 4)
$0
Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
$0
Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
$0
Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
$0
Other revenue (line 8)
$0
Total assets, end of year
$91,564
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$91,564
Program service expenses (Part III)
$49,079

Program services were 102.5% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

Mission and programs · 2022

Primary exempt purpose

Our Mission: Poetry Center San José's mission is to nurture and promote diverse literary expression in our community as a means of exploring, defining, and enriching the human experience. In furtherance of our mission, we offer programs and services to stimulate passion or the literary arts and to inspire and support emerging and established writers. We collaborate with other organizations to ensure that these programs and services reflect the diversity of our community and to involve people from a wide range of backgrounds as audience and members.

  • Poetry Events: SCC Poet Laureate/Youth Laureate program, workshops, readings, festival, and special events. These diverse events, give opportunities to professional and emerging artists. Most most events are free to all. We sponsored or ran 92 events, paid 60 artists, had 650 open readers, and 3488 audience members.

    Expenses $24,917 · Grants $9,000

  • The Markham House: on the grounds of History Park San Jose is used for free monthly workshops open to all, holds the Edwin Markham exhibition, and the Naomi Clark Library which is a collection of local, California, journals, books, chapbooks, and textbooks.

    Expenses $6,983

  • Publishing: Caesura the PCSJ literary journal released the yearly edition titled Unmasking. PCSJ also funded the Foothill-De Anza foundation for production of the National Edition of the De Anza Community College Journal Red Wheelbarrow.

    Expenses $17,179 · Grants $4,000

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part IV

  • Robert Pesich

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Sree Sripathy

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • John Mathias

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990_ez
Tax year
2022
Filed
19 September 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202312639349200236

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