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CALIFORNIA POETS IN THE SCHOOL

EIN 94-2977264 SANTA ROSA, CA

Revenue 2024
$202,971
Expenses 2024
$269,045

Program services were 86.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 1328

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

California Poets in the Schools develops and empowers a multicultural network of independent Poet-Teachers, who bring the many benefits of poetry to youth throughout the state. As a membership network we offer opportunities for professional development, peer learning and fundraising assistance for Poet-Teachers in California. We also cultivate relationships with school districts, foundations and arts organizations which can fund and support our members professional practices.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Since 1964, California Poets in the Schools (CalPoets) has grown to become one of the oldest and largest writers-in-the-schools programs in the nation. Our reach includes 20,000 students served annually by 100 Poet-Teachers from throughout California. CalPoets offers a professional, network experience for California poets that includes over 20 annual training and networking events, a three-day poetry conference, fundraising assistance, affiliation with a nationally-recognized nonprofit, as well as a clear pathway to earn income and give back to their local communities as Poet-Teachers.The multicultural network of Poet-Teachers ranges from recent college graduates and local open-mic champions, to established poets with illustrious careers. First and foremost all poets are serious artists and professional performers, trained in the art of teaching poetry at age-appropriate levels. They are living models of an artist's commitment to creative and imaginative use of language. Poet-Teachers

  • California Poets in the Schools currently serves an active network of 100+ California poets and writers, who live and work in nearly all regions of the state. Poet-Teachers teach poetry at institutions of all types including elementary, middle and high schools, as well as state prisons, juvenile jails and universities. These poets have chosen to give back to their local communities as professionally-trained Poet-Teachers with California Poets in the Schools.In addition to active Poet-Teachers, our network includes over 500 California poets and writers who engage as participants in the various networking, professional development and creative opportunities that CalPoets offers throughout the year.Calpoets offers a professional network for poets and writers that is open, inclusive and approachable. We provide a wide variety of events annually, including professional development, networking and creative opportunities. We host a beloved and well-attended poetry symposium each year where we engage our network in over 20 hours of skill-building and creative poetry-related workshops led by California poets.We hosted over 20 free, virtual monthly gatherings in 2022. Specifically, each 2nd Tuesday we offer relevant professional development, roundtable discussions and panels on Zoom. We host quarterly regional coordinator networking opportunities, a weekly free-write group, and our quarterly Open Mic Series - where we spotlight two featured readers from our network to launch the event.Fifteen "regional coordinators" take on leadership of the CalPoets' program at the local level. CalPoets offers unrestricted grants to regional coordinators up to $2,000 annually. In addition, we offer technology grants to regional coordinators in order to offset costs of bringing local programs online.All new Poet-Teachers are paired with a seasoned mentor for at least a year as they participate in a training to officially become a CalPoets' Poet-Teacher. The mentorship consists of 365 degree observations, lesson planning and one-on-one consultations. These mentorships often extend organically into ongoing professional relationships that span decades. We offer "special projects" grants to up to 15 Poet-Teachers annually, in order to foster innovation in local programs. In addition Poet-Teachers can apply for "insurance grants" in order to cover the costs of professional liability insurance.CalPoets cultivates relationships with school districts, foundations and arts organizations which can fund and support our members professional practices. Annually, our nonprofit achieves an estimated $150,000 in grants that directly fund up to 40 Poet-Teachers' artistic, school-based residencies at the local level. Dozens more rely upon their professional affiliation with CalPoets' to secure their own funding from local schools and institutions.

    Expenses $231,809

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Meg Hamill

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $67,158
    From this org
    $67,158
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Jackie Hallerberg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • David Sibbet

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Angelina Leanos

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Suresh Krishnamoorthy

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Nancy Lynee Woo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Linda Ravenswood

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Angela Philips

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Don Kingfisher Campbell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • James Coats

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Amanda CHiado

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Zoya Ahmed

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mark Brunst

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $202,971
    Expenses
    $269,045
    Contributions
    $191,198
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $221,430
    Expenses
    $344,465
    Contributions
    $201,869
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $389,052
    Expenses
    $422,919
    Contributions
    $355,502
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $616,098
    Expenses
    $236,968
    Assets (EOY)
    $718,162

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $302,790
    Expenses
    $213,425
    Assets (EOY)
    $366,822

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $231,345
    Expenses
    $218,335
    Assets (EOY)
    $286,685

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $208,339
    Expenses
    $248,853
    Assets (EOY)
    $278,226

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $258,993
    Expenses
    $263,719
    Assets (EOY)
    $300,661

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $297,780
    Expenses
    $332,964
    Assets (EOY)
    $292,245

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $323,908
    Expenses
    $246,275
    Assets (EOY)
    $346,759

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.