Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by LOS ANGELES POVERTY DEPARTMENT.

Totals

Total revenue: $482,823
Total expenses: $371,849
Contributions and grants received: $474,648
Grants paid: $0
Program service revenue: $6,650
Investment income: $0
Other revenue: $1,525
Total assets, end of year: $342,324
Total liabilities, end of year: $0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year: $342,324
Program services expenses (Part IX): $284,949
Management and general expenses: $46,936
Fundraising expenses: $39,963
Program service expenses (Part III): $284,949

Program services were 76.6% 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.

1a · Federated campaigns

$0
1b · Membership dues

$0
1c · Fundraising events

$0
1d · Related organizations

$0
1e · Government grants (contributions)

$189,134
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

$285,514
1g · Noncash contributions included above

$0
2a · Program service revenue: theatrical performances

total $1,000 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
2b · Program service revenue: workshops & honoraria

total $5,650 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
2c · Program service revenue

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
2d · Program service revenue

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
2e · Program service revenue

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
2f · All other program service revenue

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
3 · Investment income

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

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

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
6a · Gross rents

real property $1,525 · personal property $0
6b · Less rental expenses

real property $0 · personal property $0
6c · Rental income or loss

real property $1,525 · personal property $0
6d · Net rental income or loss

total $1,525 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

securities $0 · other assets $0
7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

securities $0 · other assets $0
7c · Gain or loss

securities $0 · other assets $0
7d · Net gain or loss

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
8a · Fundraising events: gross income

$0
8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

$0
8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

$0
8c · Net income from fundraising events

total $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
9a · Gaming: gross income

$0
9b · Gaming: direct expenses

$0
9c · Net income from gaming

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
10a · Gross sales of inventory

$0
10b · Cost of goods sold

$0
10c · Net income from sales of inventory

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
11a · Other revenue

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
11b · Other revenue

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
11c · Other revenue

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

1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

total $0 · program services $0
2 · Grants to domestic individuals

total $0 · program services $0
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

total $0 · program services $0
4 · Benefits paid to or for members

total $0 · program services $0
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

total $67,850 · program services $40,710 · management and general $13,570 · fundraising $13,570
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
7 · Other salaries and wages

total $155,804 · program services $118,367 · management and general $18,717 · fundraising $18,720
8 · Pension plan contributions

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
9 · Other employee benefits

total $8,628 · program services $6,137 · management and general $1,246 · fundraising $1,246
10 · Payroll taxes

total $18,292 · program services $13,009 · management and general $2,641 · fundraising $2,641
11a · Fees: management

total $22,295 · program services $21,768 · management and general $527 · fundraising $0
11b · Fees: legal

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
11c · Fees: accounting

total $1,936 · program services $0 · management and general $1,936 · fundraising $0
11d · Fees: lobbying

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

total $0 · fundraising $0
11f · Fees: investment management

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
11g · Fees: other

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
12 · Advertising and promotion

total $4,099 · program services $4,099 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
13 · Office expenses

total $8,744 · program services $4,300 · management and general $2,919 · fundraising $1,525
14 · Information technology

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

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

total $49,440 · program services $47,162 · management and general $1,139 · fundraising $1,139
17 · Travel

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

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

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
21 · Payments to affiliates

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

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

total $4,695 · program services $1,617 · management and general $2,505 · fundraising $573
24a · Other expenses: Program Expenses

total $26,230 · program services $26,230 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
24b · Other expenses: Dues & Subscriptions

total $2,747 · program services $1,550 · management and general $647 · fundraising $549
24c · Other expenses: Taxes, Licenses & Fees

total $1,089 · program services $0 · management and general $1,089 · fundraising $0
24d · Other expenses

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
24e · All other expenses

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
26 · Joint costs (an allocation of the lines above)

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

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

beginning of year $227,118 · end of year $267,524
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

beginning of year $0 · end of year $10,000
3 · Pledges and grants receivable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
4 · Accounts receivable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $62,500
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
7 · Other notes and loans receivable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
8 · Inventories for sale or use

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

beginning of year $1,932 · 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 $0 · end of year $0
12 · Investments: other securities

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
13 · Investments: program-related

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
14 · Intangible assets

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
15 · Other assets

beginning of year $2,300 · end of year $2,300
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
18 · Grants payable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
19 · Deferred revenue

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
21 · Escrow or custodial account liability

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
23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
25 · Other liabilities

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

beginning of year $231,350 · end of year $279,824
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

beginning of year $0 · end of year $62,500

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

Los Angeles Poverty Department creates performances and multi-disciplinary artworks that connect the experience of people living in poverty to the social forces that shape their lives and communities our work expresses the realities hopes dream and rights of people who live and work in L.A. Skid Row.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Los Angeles Poverty Department creates performances and multi-disciplinary artworks utilizing the talents of people living in poverty.

Programming during the fiscal year continued to creatively serve our low-income Skid Row community. In October we held our 13th annual 2-day Festival for All Skid Row Artists in Gladys Park Skid Row. In January we published and distributed free to community members 2,000 tabloid newspapers featuring 150 artists who participated in October's Festival. In Los Angeles Poverty Department's Skid Row theater workshops 60 workshops over 8 months Skid Row community members created Resilience,a performance focused on individuals' innate abilities for self-realization and fulfillment to heal themselves. Resilience taps into the innate health in everyone by exploring activities that we like to do. Resilience was performed 6 times twice at our space at an arts festival a conference of non-profit housing developers and at The Midnight Mission and the Downtown Women's Center with total attendance of 1,200. The Resilience performances connected thematically to our gallery exhibition January through August Cosmology & Community designed with our community curator Charles Porter and muralist Joshua Grace. This was one of 4 exhibitions we created during FY-22-3. The others included Blue Book Green Paper and How to House 7,000 people in Skid Row both exhibitions ran through December 2022. In mid-September opened our next exhibition Enough is never enough: Hard Truths and the People that Live Them documenting people living on the streets of Skid Row and in the San Fernando Valley by photographer David Blumenkranz and his students. Throughout the year we continued our bi-weekly film series and initiated a monthly open mic evening. We also hosted events organized by individual Skid Row artists and Skid Row community groups including a Juneteenth celebration organized by community DJ Sir Oliver. During spring and summer we continued our research and began designing our exhibitions that will be realized in the current FY--- that focuses on medical personnel who staffed the LA County Quarantine Sites for homeless people with Covid for an upcoming exhibition. Throughout FY 22-23 working with other Skid Row arts organizations we created and distributed quarterly Art Zine that included arts activities and highlighted artists and arts groups in Skid Row. Printing of 2,500 copies per-issue of the 32-page magazine was provided by the City of Los Angeles. Throughout FY22-23 our archivists worked with 10 volunteers to continue to put our archival holdings in Central Management System while also acquiring new materials generated through our activities and donated from other Skid Row community members and groups.

Expenses $284,949

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

Catherine Gudis

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

13
Aram Moshayedi

Vice President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Zelenne Cardenas

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Julia Carnahan

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Laurance Lavin

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
John Malpede

Founding Artistic Director

Total calculated

$67,850

From this org

$67,850

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

40

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: 3 April 2024
IRS schema version: 2022v5.0
Source object: 202410949349300601

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