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← GREAT PLAINS ACTION SOCIETY

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by GREAT PLAINS ACTION SOCIETY.

Totals

Total revenue
$463,978
Total expenses
$20,695
Contributions and grants received
$463,978
Grants paid
$4,646
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$443,283
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$443,283
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$13,915
Management and general expenses
$6,780
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$13,915

Program services were 67.2% 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

    $463,978

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $4,000 · program services $4,000

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $646 · program services $646

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $6,780 · management and general $6,780

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $6,033 · program services $6,033

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $703 · program services $703

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $928 · program services $928

  • 17 · Travel

    total $1,372 · program services $1,372

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $100 · program services $100

  • 24a · Other expenses: BANKING AND COMPLIANCE

    total $133 · program services $133

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    end of year $443,283

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    end of year $443,283

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

WE ADDRESS THE TRAUMA THAT INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE EARTH FACE AND WORK TO PREVENT FURTHER COLONIAL CAPITALIST VIOLENCE BY FIGHTING FOR AND BUILDING POWER IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES THROUGH REMATRIATION, HEALING JUSTICE AND BRINGING IN A REGENERATIVE ECONOMY.

  • PROTECT THE SACRED INITIATIVE GREAT PLAINS ACTION SOCIETY'S PROTECT THE SACRED INITIATIVE IS FOCUSED ON STOPPING VIOLENCE TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES BY EDUCATING AND ORGANIZING AROUND THE MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS RELATIVES CRISIS AND SUPPORTING INDIGENOUS FAMILIES WITH MISSING OR MURDERED RELATIVES THROUGHOUT IOWA, NEBRASKA, AND THE GREAT PLAINS. LAND DEFENSE INITIATIVE THE MISSION OF OUR FRONTLINE LAND DEFENSE PROGRAM IS TO SAFEGUARD THE LAND, AIR, AND WATER IN ORDER TO PROTECT SACRED INDIGENOUS SPACES AND PRACTICES THAT RELY ON INTACT ENVIRONMENTS AND A HEALTHY CLIMATE. OUR GOAL IS TO USHER IN AN INDIGENOUS-LED REGENERATIVE ECONOMY THAT USES TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE TO BUILD STRONG FOOD SYSTEMS, CLEAN LANDSCAPES, AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES. REPRESENTATION INITIATIVE THE MISSION OF OUR REPRESENTATION INITIATIVE IS TO END ERASURE, WHITEWASHING, AND STEREOTYPES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES BY INCREASING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION, CHANGING LEGISLATION, EVOLVING NARROW-MINDED HOLIDAYS, AND ABOLISHING RACIST MASCOTS/DEPICTIONS, AS WELL AS MONUMENTS TO WHITE SUPREMACY. CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE GREAT PLAINS ACTION SOCIETY'S CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE IS CENTERED ON GETTING FOLKS OUT TO VOTE ON THE ISSUES THAT AFFECT THEIR FREEDOM, HEALTH AND SAFETY. THROUGH THIS WORK, WE ARE BUILDING POWER IN OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES BY EMPOWERING THEM TO SHOW UP, SPEAK OUT, AND CREATE CHANGE.

    Expenses $13,915 · Grants $4,646

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Christine Nobiss

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $60,471
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $60,471
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Keely Driscoll

    MEMBER AT LA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Karen Mackey

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Terrance Medina

    MEMBER AT LA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Carolyn Raffensperger

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Regina Tsosie

    SECRETARY/TR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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.

  • INDIGENOUS IOWA INC

    501C4 · ADVOCACY · IA · controlled entity

    Directly controlled by GPAS GREAT PLAINS ACTION SOCIETY

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
5 December 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202413409349301221

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