Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$1,098,136

Total expenses

$1,967,064

Contributions and grants received

$365,000

Grants paid

$1,577,000

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$726,409

Other revenue

$6,727

Total assets, end of year

$18,476,432

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$18,476,432

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,820,066

Management and general expenses

$146,998

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,820,066

Program services were 92.5% 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.

Mission and programs · 2023

• THE NEW GI BILL ALLOWS VETERANS TO ATTEND THE COLLEGE OR VOCATIONAL SCHOOL OF THEIR CHOICE. UNFORTUNATELY, MANY VETERANS HAVE UNWITTINGLY BECOME VICTIMS OF PREDATORY PRACTICES BY A NUMBER OF FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES. PROBLEMS INCLUDE DECEPTIVE RECRUITING AND MARKETING, DELIVERY OF WEAK ACADEMIC CONTENT, LITTLE OR NO SUPPORT SERVICES, BURDENSOME STUDENT LOAN DEBT, AND INAPPROPRIATE OR UNDELIVERABLE PROMISES REGARDING JOBS, TRANSFER OF CREDITS AND CAREER PLACEMENT. THIS PROGRAM HELPS VETERANS, VICTIMS AND MILITARY FAMILIES TO BE CAREFUL CONSUMERS EVALUATING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND STUDENT LOANS. WORKING WITH PARTNERS, THE KISCO PROGRAM ASSISTS VETERANS WHO HAVE EXCESSIVE STUDENT LOAN BURDENS, AND THROUGH 501(C) (3) PARTNERS AND VETERANS GROUPS, HELPS VETERANS TRANSITION TO CIVILIAN AND ACADEMIC LIFE AND SUCCEED IN HIGHER EDUCATION. BEYOND HOLDING ACCOUNTABLE THE INSTITUTIONS THAT SERVE VETERANS, WE WILL PROVIDE INFORMATION TO ALL APPROPRIATE AUDIENCES TO ASSIST VETERANS AND MILITARY FAMILIES IN MAKING INFORMED EDUCATION AND CAREER CHOICES.

  Expenses $570,066 · Grants $327,000

• ANOTHER INITIATIVE OF THE FOUNDATION IS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL, TECHNICAL AND STRATEGIC SUPPORT FOR THE EXPLORATION AND STUDY OF NON-PROFIT BUSINESS MODEL RELATED TO PROGRAMS IN NON-PROFIT JOURNALISM AND ITS APPLICATION TO COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS AND NEWS ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE WORK OF JOURNALISTS, NEWSPAPERS AND NEWS ORGANIZATIONS FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED COMMUNITIES. THIS INCLUDES PILOT PROGRAMS IN ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM, FORUMS ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING, INTERNSHIPS FOR JOURNALISM STUDENTS, HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROJECTS ON FILM AND IN PRINT, AND COMMUNITY ARCHIVES. THESE COMMUNITY SERVICE MODELS SUPPORT THE EXEMPT ACTIVITIES CRITICAL TO THE SUCCESS OF A NON-PROFIT BUSINESS MODEL FOR SMALL COMMUNITY MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS.

  Expenses $1,250,000 · Grants $1,250,000

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• PLAN FOR SOCIAL EXCELLENCE

  $1,100,000

  GRANT TO FURTHER DONEE'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO SCHOOL OF LAW

  $150,000

  RENEWAL PROTECT STUDENT VETERANS INITIATIVE. VETERANS LEGAL CLINIC.

• WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  RENEWED SUPPPORT FOR THEIR VETERANS RESOURCE CENTER AND SUPPORT PROGRAM

• INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS AND EDITORS INC

  $100,000

  TOTAL NEWSROOM TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS FOR JOURNALISTS IN THE SOUTH

• VET VOICE FOUNDATION

  $75,000

  VOTING RIGHTS, VOTE BY MAIL, VOTER REG

• RE-THINK MEDIA INC

  $50,000

  FOR DEMOCRACY PROGRAMS SERVING SMALL TO MEDIUM LOCAL AND REGIONAL NGO'S AND JOURNALISTS.

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.

• THE KOHLBERG FOUNDATION

  501(C)(3) · SUPPORTS ORGS IN THE FIELDS OF HEALTH & MEDICAL, EDUCATION & THE ENVIRONMENT · NY

• CABBAGE HILL FARM FOUNDATION INC

  501(C)(3) · PRESERVE HISTORIC FARM ANIMALS, AQUIPONICS & AGRICULTURAL TECHNIQUES · NY

• MV VISION FELLOWSHIP FUND

  501(C)(3) · TO PROVIDE AN EXTRAORDINARY HIGHER EDUCATION FOR SELECTED SCHOLARS. · DE

• THE PLAN FOR SOCIAL EXCELLENCE INC

  501(C)(3) · JOURNALISM EDUCATION/HISTORIC PRESERVATION/COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT · NY

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

15 November 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202423209349305112

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