Totals
- Total revenue
- $120,298
- Total expenses
- $155,535
- Contributions and grants received
- $120,298
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Membership dues (line 3)
- $0
- Investment income (line 4)
- $0
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- $0
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- $0
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- $0
- Other revenue (line 8)
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $37,254
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $28,292
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $8,962
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $125,723
Program services were 80.8% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2023
Primary exempt purpose
The mission of Spokane Alliance United is to conduct training, public education, leadership development and research in order to build broad-based non-partisan civic power organizations in the Spokane region to address the fundamental common needs of the community including the inequities, and injustices facing low-income people and persons subjected to oppression or discrimination.
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Community Organizing Training: We trained an estimated 30 people through our 2-day, 16 hour Foundations of Community Organizing Training in January 2023 and an abbreviated leadership training in May 2023. We trained over 50 leaders and community members through the five-part, 10-hour Wrestling with the Truth of Colonization Training in November and December 2023, followed by in-person local sessions with Indigenous-led organizations the following year. We supported a training of 30 plus university students at Whitman College in April 2023. We trained over 30 people from the Yakima area in September 2023 through a 2-day, 16 hour Foundations of Community Organizing Training... Public education: We conducted briefings within our member institutions to talk about our work around housing justice, indigenous relations, and quality jobs, with volunteer leaders sharing their stories around these issues and engaging three faith congregations, Salem Lutheran, Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane, and the West Central Abbey, in better understanding the impact of these issues in the community... Leadership Development and Citizen-led Research: We developed the capacity, skills, and critical thinking of our staff, volunteer leaders, and research action teams through a variety of trainings including: Leaders Retreat in December 2023 with 31 people, to set a direction on racial equity and strengthen our institutions through core teams. Senior Organizer participation in a two day Organizer's Institute Retreat with staff organizers from across the Western United States in December 2023... Building on our work to engage those who live, work and worship in the West Central neighborhood, we provided bimonthly training and mentorship to the Housing Equity Action Research Team to conduct citizen-led research, community outreach and doorknocking, and power analysis on solutions to the affordable housing crisis in West Central and city-wide.
Expenses $125,723
As filed on the 2023 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Laurel Fish
Lead Organizer & Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 22
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Jason Benway
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Kimberly Meinecke
Vice President and Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Michael Bell
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Mary Lou Johnson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Katie Jessop
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Faith Hayflich
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Kerra Bower
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2023
- Filed
- 15 November 2024
- IRS schema version
- 2023v5.0
- Source object
- 202413209349206716
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