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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by WORKING CALIFORNIANS RESEARCH FUND.

Totals

Total revenue
$809,009
Total expenses
$676,958
Contributions and grants received
$809,009
Grants paid
$195,000
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$1,326,161
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,326,161
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$551,401
Management and general expenses
$40,556
Fundraising expenses
$85,001
Program service expenses (Part III)
$551,401

Program services were 81.5% 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

    $809,009

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $195,000 · program services $195,000

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $31,667 · management and general $31,667

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $3,400 · management and general $3,400

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $346,401 · program services $346,401

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $1,074 · management and general $974 · fundraising $100

  • 17 · Travel

    total $30,934 · management and general $434 · fundraising $30,500

  • 24a · Other expenses: EVENTS

    total $61,086 · program services $10,000 · fundraising $51,086

  • 24b · Other expenses: MEALS AND ENTERTAINMENT

    total $6,580 · management and general $3,265 · fundraising $3,315

  • 24c · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $540 · management and general $540

  • 24d · Other expenses: POSTAGE AND DELIVERY

    total $217 · management and general $217

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $59 · management and general $59

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $1,155,872 · end of year $1,326,161

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

    $8,850

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

    $8,850

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $50,000

  • 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 $1,205,872 · end of year $1,326,161

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO CONDUCT RESEARCH ON POLICY ISSUES THAT AFFECT THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF WORKING MEN AND WOMEN IN CALIFORNIA. ACTIVITIES INCLUDE USE OF RESEARCH TO DIRECT INDEPENDENT PUBLIC EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY EFFORTS, INCLUDING SUPPORT OR OPPOSITION OF LEGISLATION AND STATE AND LOCAL BALLOT MEASURES.

  • ACTIVITIES INCLUDE USE OF RESEARCH TO DIRECT INDEPENDENT PUBLIC EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY EFFORTS, INCLUDING SUPPORT OR OPPOSITION OF LEGISLATION AND STATE AND LOCAL BALLOT MEASURES. THE ORGANIZATION PRODUCES PRO-LABOR MUSIC AND RECORDINGS SUPPORTING WORKING MEN AND WOMEN.

    Expenses $551,401 · Grants $195,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Gus Corona

    PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lucy Labruzzo

    SECRETARY-TREASURER/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Modrzejewski

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • PO' BOY RECORDS LLC

    $195,000

    MUSIC PRODUCTION

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.

  • WORKING CALIFORNIANS

    501(C)(3) · REBUILD THE CONNECTION, SHARED INTEREST, AND PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN WORKING PE · CA

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.

  • PO' BOY RECORDS LLC

    MUSIC PRODUCTION · CA

    Directly controlled by WORKING CALIFORNIANS RESEARCH FUND

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
17 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202513219349324031

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