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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by POOR MAGAZINE INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$292,807
Total expenses
$420,576
Contributions and grants received
$290,615
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$2,192
Total assets, end of year
$2,106,513
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$2,106,513
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$353,303
Management and general expenses
$67,273
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$353,303

Program services were 84.0% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $290,615

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $1,855

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    -$337

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $2,192 · related or exempt $2,192

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $919 · program services $919

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $434 · program services $434

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $10,536 · program services $10,536

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $5,591 · program services $5,591

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $59,045 · program services $44,284 · management and general $14,761

  • 17 · Travel

    total $6,013 · program services $6,013

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $54,308 · program services $27,154 · management and general $27,154

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $3,087 · management and general $3,087

  • 24a · Other expenses: POOR PROGRAM STIPEND

    total $217,880 · program services $217,880

  • 24b · Other expenses: AUTO EXPENSES

    total $22,285 · program services $11,143 · management and general $11,142

  • 24c · Other expenses: TELEPHONE EXPENSE

    total $17,582 · program services $8,791 · management and general $8,791

  • 24d · Other expenses: EDUCATION STIPEND

    total $14,652 · program services $14,652

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $8,244 · program services $5,906 · management and general $2,338

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $388,128 · end of year $247,610

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

    $2,116,593

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

    $348,235

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $1,571,571 · end of year $1,768,358

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $274,583 · end of year $90,545

  • 29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 30 · Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $2,234,282 · end of year $2,106,513

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

All of Poor Magazine's programs are focused on providing community based media. The goal is to create access for silenced voices of people of color, elderly and disabled living in poverty.2023 has been a beautiful, painful, and herstoric year at POOR Magazine. In the midst of the year's many traumas, we have continued doing what we always have: fighting to dismantle the lies of krapitalism and wealth-hoarding from the bottom up and responding to the needs of poverty skolaz across Pachamama. Here are some 2023 highlights: We moved our 15th resident into HOMEFULNESS #1 DEECOLONIZE ACADEMY is in our 10th year with graduates becoming teachers 12th year of SLIDING SCALE CAF, a healthy food, groceries, diapers & media, support radical redistribution (mutual aid) for deep East Oakland every Thursday Continued in-person People Skool for East Oakland poverty skolaz with Theatre of the Poor and Po Peoples Radio workshop series Led a ceremony & press conference to propose Home

Activities or mission (Part I)

POOR Magazine is a grassroots led non-profit organization dedicated to providing media access, art, education, and advocacy to silenced youth, adults and elderly people living in poverty.

  • *We moved our 15th resident into HOMEFULNESS #1 *Led a ceremony & press conference to propose Homefulness in occupied Yelamu (SF)* Homefulness #2 in Deep East Huichin (Oakland) to permanently house our relatives: This year Wood Street faced an unlawful eviction and brutal demolition of a beautiful community that was built by houseless people to house themselves. Poor Magazine and Wood Street Commons herstorically broke ground on Homefulness #2 this year and will continue building next year.

    Expenses $353,303

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

  • *12th year of SLIDING SCALE CAF, a healthy food, groceries, diapers & media, support radical redistribution (mutual aid) for deep East Oakland every Thursday* Crushing Wheelchairs was performed live on stage movie coming in 2024: We produced and staged 3 sold out productions of the original show, Crushing Wheelchairs, with an all Houseless cast honoring ancestors of homelessness, poLice terror and sweeps. It premiered in February in SF and Oakland, and was also performed in Vallejo. The Crushing Wheelchairs narrative film will be released in 2024. Stay connected to learn more!* Stolen Land/Hoarded Resources UnTours Across Turtle Island: POOR Magazine went on the Road for an UnTour to occupied Tongva and Chumash territory aka Beverly Hills. We walked thru wealth-hoarder neighborhoods on stolen indigenous land to share the medicine of radical redistribution and comeunity reparations. We also did UnTours in Chief Siaal (so-called Seattle) for a Homefulness in Duwamish territory

  • *Launched WeSearch (aka research) investigation into Caltrans Sweeps* Began a movement/family collaboration with our fellow Houseless relatives at Wood Street Commons to help them Liberate Mama Earth and build their own forever homes

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

  • Lisa Gray-Garcia

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jean Ishibashi

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Joseph Bolden

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Leroy F Moore

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Diana Vielmann

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Muteado Silencio

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Tiburcio Garcia

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Osha Neuman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
15 November 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202403209349326405

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