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LOS ANGELES POVERTY DEPARTMENT

EIN 95-4174562 LOS ANGELES, CA

Revenue 2024
$357,727
Expenses 2024
$643,885

Program services were 72.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 26190

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

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 housed and unhoused members of our low-income Skid Row community and the public at our Skid Row History Museum & Archive SRHMA and other public spaces. In October 2023 LAPD hosted our 15th annual 2-day Festival for All Skid Row Artists in Gladys Park Skid Row attended by an est. 1,500 people and 150 artists. In January we published and distributed free to community members 2,000 newspapers documenting the festival and featuring the participating artists. LAPDs Welcome to the Covid Hotel exhibition was on view at the SRHMA through December 2024. LAPDs related theatrical performance The Covid Hotel Welcomes You to the Future was performed at the closing of the exhibition and January through September we performed it 12 more times in theaters and community settings throughout Los Angeles County for combined audiences of 1200. 9 of the performances were followed by community conversations with doctors nurses and other community health workers. The project documented and disseminated the experiences of frontline workers at County Quarantine and Isolation medical shelters for Covid patients. Total participants: approx. 40 Skid Row rehearsals with 10 Skid Row cast members 26 panelists at community conversations; and 1200 audience. During the year the Skid Row History Museum & Archive also hosted 3 exhibitions curated by outside curators Tents & Tenants curated by the Echo Park Collective ran for 2 months February and March 2025 and was visited by over 600 people. The exhibition Walk with Me featuring Skid Row visual artists working at the People Concerns Studio 526. The exhibition was up from April 11 through June 28 and was curated by Alice Corona Director of Studio 526. The exhibition was viewed by an estimated 600 people and Studio 526 produced 3 community events during the run of the exhibition. Scratching the Surface: 40 Years of Visual Arts in Skid Row opened on September 6 and continued through the end of the Fiscal Year on Sept. 30. The exhibition was curated by Hayk Makhmuryan of the Community Arts Depot. It has been viewed by over 400 people. Throughout FY2024-25 SRHMA hosted free monthly workshops and meetings as well as special events for Skid Row community members led by individuals and grassroots groups. These included Creative Writing Sock Puppet Making other meetings organized by community groups and the annual Bob Marley Day and Juneteenth celebrations organized by Skid Row community member DJ Sir Oliver. LAPD produced Movie Nights twice month and Open Mic Nights monthly. In all Museum programs engaged an estimated 10,000 participants including exhibition visitors and public program audience members in FY2024-5. Working with other Skid Row arts organizations LAPD created and distributed 2,500 copies issue a quarterly ArtsZine highlighting neighborhood artists and activities. Throughout FY2024-25 LAPD archivists worked with 9 volunteers to continue to put our archival holdings into a Central Management System while also acquiring and processing new materials generated through LAPD activities and donated from Skid Row leaders and organizations. There were another 11 volunteers who supported LA Poverty Department projects throughout the year.

    Expenses $463,758

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.

  • Catherine Gudis

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12

  • Aram Moshayedi

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Zelenne Cardenas

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Julia Carnahan

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Kim Welch

    member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Malpede

    Founding Artistic Director

    Total calculated
    $69,464
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $69,464
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Ronald Walker

    member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $357,727
    Expenses
    $643,885
    Contributions
    $286,995
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $750,866
    Expenses
    $500,402
    Contributions
    $721,672
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $482,823
    Expenses
    $371,849
    Contributions
    $474,648
    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
    $318,631
    Expenses
    $329,716
    Assets (EOY)
    $231,350

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $343,850
    Expenses
    $301,783
    Assets (EOY)
    $242,436

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $357,122
    Expenses
    $298,263
    Assets (EOY)
    $226,534

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.