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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by WPS2 FUND.

Totals

Total revenue
$915,804
Total expenses
$5,181,531
Contributions and grants received
$0
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$915,804
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$266,602,480
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$266,602,480
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$5,157,656
Management and general expenses
$23,875
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$5,157,656

Program services were 99.5% 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.

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $1,291,224 · excluded $1,291,224

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $26,796,411

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $27,171,831

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities -$375,420 · other assets $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total -$375,420 · excluded -$375,420

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $1,760 · management and general $1,760

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $16,983 · management and general $16,983

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $4,904 · management and general $4,904

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: Pass Through Deductions

    total $5,157,656 · program services $5,157,656

  • 24b · Other expenses: Miscellaneous

    total $228 · management and general $228

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $1,608,554 · end of year $1,379,567

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

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

    $0

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

    $0

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $63,451,693 · end of year $36,279,862

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $205,807,960 · end of year $228,943,051

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $270,868,207 · end of year $266,602,480

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

WPS2 Fund is organized, and shall be operated exclusively, for civic and social welfare purposes. In particular, the purpose of the Corporation is to support innovations and reforms to improve public and private K-12 education for the benefit of all students. The Corporation will support and foster such innovations and reforms through mission-related investments, grants to nonprofit organizations, and conducting such other activities as determined by the Corporation's Board of Directors.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The organization's mission is to support innovations and reforms to improve public and private K-12 education for the benefit of all students.

  • To make education impact and social impact investments in enterprises to support education innovation for K-12 public and private schools. Education impact investments are equity or debt investments in enterprises producing innovative materials, curricula, models, systems, technologies and other items designed to improve K-12 education by creating and expanding methods, products, services and opportunities to help what students learn, where they learn and how they learn.

    Expenses $5,157,656

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Buddy D Philpot

    DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT, TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Eliza Erickson

    DIRECTOR (UNTIL 10/15/23)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Marc Holley

    DIRECTOR (FROM 10/15/23)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Erron Smith

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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.

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.

Related partnerships

Part III: related organizations taxable as a partnership, with the filer's share.

  • A-Street Ventures LP

    Related · Investment Fund · DE · 79.12% owned · share of income $60,958 · share of assets $153,123,421

    Directly controlled by WPS2 Fund

  • ASV GM 2022 LLC

    Related · INVESTMENTS · DE · 100% owned · share of income $3 · share of assets $75,830,916

    Directly controlled by WPS2 Fund

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
8 November 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202443139349302989

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