Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$464,571

Total expenses

$521,279

Contributions and grants received

$464,571

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$70,249

Total liabilities, end of year

$50,051

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$20,198

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$428,582

Management and general expenses

$63,881

Fundraising expenses

$28,816

Program service expenses (Part III)

$428,582

Program services were 82.2% 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.

Mission and programs · 2023

• SOSAZN EXTENDS CONVERSATIONS OF PUBLIC EDUCATION INTO THE COMMUNITY THROUGH LOCAL VOLUNTEERS, INCLUDING COLLABORATION WITH STAKEHOLDERS SUCH AS SCHOOL BOARDS, EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS, SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS, TEACHERS, PARENTS, STUDENTS, LOCAL AND STATEWIDE ASSOCIATION, AND OTHER GROUPS. OUTREACH ALSO INCLUDES COLLABORATION AND INFORMATION EXCHANGE WITH ORGANIZATIONS IN OTHER STATES AND NATIONALLY BATTLING PRIVATIZATION AND SUPPORTING PUBLIC EDUCATION. SOSAZN SEEKS TO FOSTER CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN SUPPORTING LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS, STUDENTS, EDUCATORS, AND EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE IN ORDER TO BUILD A STRONGER ARIZONA.

  Expenses $214,291

• SOSAZN DEVELOPS AND DELIVERS WEBINARS, WORKSHOPS, FORUMS, DISCUSSIONS, AND PRESENTATIONS THAT INFORM A WIDE VARIETY OF AUDIENCES ABOUT THE CONDITIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION THROUGHOUT ARIZONA. DURING 2022, SOSAZN ORGANIZED AND HOSTED DOZENS OF ONLINE AND IN-PERSON EDUCATION FORUMS BOTH LOCALLY AND FOR NATIONAL AUDIENCES, INCLUDING "SPEAKING OF SCHOOLS" WEBINARS, SCHOOL BOARD TRAININGS, BI-PARTISAN CANDIDATE FORUMS, LEGISLATION RECAPS, AND OTHERS. SOSAZN'S BLOG SERIES ON PUBLIC EDUCATION AND THE VARIOUS METHODS AND PRACTICES OF DEFUNDING PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCLUDED 8 NEW POSTS.

  Expenses $150,004

• SOSAZN USED ITS RESOURCES TO DEVELOP, AGGREGATE, ORGANIZE, AND DISSEMINATE RESEARCH, RESOURCES, AND INFORMATION RELATIVE TO PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ARIZONA. THE NETWORK FOCUSES ON UNDERRESOURCED COMMUNITIES AND EFFORTS TO PRIVATIZE AND MONETIZE PUBLIC EDUCATION, AND HOW STRUCTURAL INEQUITIES IN FUNDING FORMULAS DISADVANTAGE POOR, IMMIGRANT, NATIVE AMERICAN, AND RURAL COMMUNITIES. OUR RESEARCH HAS INCLUDED DETAILED, NONPARTISAN INFORMATION ABOUT HOW SCHOOL TEST SCORES DISADVANTAGE ECONOMICALLY CHALLENGED DISTRICTS, HOW UNIVERSAL VOUCHERS THREATEN TO BANKRUPT ARIZONA, AND THE CRISIS OF TEACHERS LEAVING THE CLASSROOM.

  Expenses $64,287

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

Listed in Part VII

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.

• SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA

  501(C)(4) · PUBLIC EDUCATION ADVOCACY · AZ

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

7 October 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202412829349300011

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