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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by POOR MAGAZINE INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$584,701
Total expenses
$423,613
Contributions and grants received
$583,215
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$1,486
Total assets, end of year
$2,234,282
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$2,234,282
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$368,047
Management and general expenses
$55,566
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$368,047

Program services were 86.9% 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

    $583,215

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $2,149

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $663

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $1,486 · related or exempt $1,486

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $1,142 · program services $1,142

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $116 · program services $116

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $11,904 · program services $11,904

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $9,506 · program services $9,506

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $460 · program services $460

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $44,749 · program services $33,562 · management and general $11,187

  • 17 · Travel

    total $22,906 · program services $22,906

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $57,934 · program services $43,451 · management and general $14,483

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $3,089 · management and general $3,089

  • 24a · Other expenses: POOR PROGRAM STIPEND

    total $130,084 · program services $130,084

  • 24b · Other expenses: EDUCATION STIPEND

    total $63,643 · program services $63,643

  • 24c · Other expenses: AUTO EXPENSES

    total $45,700 · program services $22,850 · management and general $22,850

  • 24d · Other expenses: POOR EXPENSE

    total $20,409 · program services $20,409

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $11,971 · program services $8,014 · management and general $3,957

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $426,738 · end of year $388,128

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

    $1,914,084

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

    $342,513

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $1,369,077 · end of year $1,571,571

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $277,379 · end of year $274,583

  • 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 $2,073,194 · end of year $2,234,282

Mission and programs · 2022

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.2022 has been a herstoric year at POOR Magazine. In the midst of the year's many traumas, we havecontinued doing what we always have: fighting to dismantle the lies of crapitalism and wealth-hoardingfrom the bottom up and responding to the needs of poverty skolaz across Pachamama: After 11 year battle, we resisted & "won" shitty hall politricks & FINALLY MOVED 14 HOUSELESSYOUTH, ADULTS & ELDERS INTO HOMEFULNESS #1 DEECOLONIZE ACADEMY is in our 9th year with graduates becoming teachers 11th year of SLIDING SCALE CAF, a healthy food, groceries , diapers & media, support radicalredistribution (mutual aid) for deep east oakland every Thursday LISTEN TO PNNKEXU 96.1FM every Tuesday & Thursday, multi-generational radio programming Re-Launched in person peopleskool for East Oakland pove

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.

  • People Skool Decolonization/DegentriFUKation Seminar on Zoom.We held TWO People Skool seminars for people with race, class, and/or formal education privilege.

    Expenses $75,663

  • Homefulness #3 & POOR Magazine in the Pacific Northwest (PNW)This year we continued to build the sacred branch of the solidarity tree, supporting Houseless relativesstruggling with sweeps violence with revolutionary media, healthy food and ComeUnity Reparations. We helda Po' Poets Workshop in so-called Bellingham, RoofLess Radio in so-called Olympia, and Po' Poets of POORMagazine & PNW did a book reading at Clara's Books at Chief Siahl (Seattle).

    Expenses $231,152

  • When Mama and Me Lived Outside Film ScreeningsThe animated short film based on Tiny's children's book of the same name, won its 15th award this year. Thefilm had several screenings this year, including at the Peoples Film Fest in Harlem, the Seattle Social JusticeFilm Fest, and the SF Latino Film FestivalStolen Land/Hoarded Resources UnTour thru kkkolumbia University in Occupied Lenape LandsThis June POOR Magazine went on the Road for an Un-Tour to occupied Lenape territory aka New York City.We walked alongside thousands of evicted & displaced NYC residents, made houseless by akkkademicinstitutions like kkkolumbia Univeristy, feeding the Dorm Industrial complex.

    Expenses $56,434

  • Rehearsals have begun for Crushing Wheelchairs, a new Theatre of the Poor productionStay connected to hear about upcoming performances!

    Expenses $4,798

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Lisa Gray-Garcia

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jean Ishibashi

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Joseph Bolden

    Secretary

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

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Diana Vielmann

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Muteado Silensio

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Jennifer Navarro

    President

    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
2022
Filed
16 October 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202332899349301688

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