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SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC

EIN 39-1882258 MONONA, WI

Revenue 2024
$446,895
Expenses 2024
$438,629

Program services were 77.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A33
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 6307

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

SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS (SSFP) DELIVERS HIGH-IMPACT ACADEMIC INSTRUCTION DURING AFTER-SCHOOL AND SUMMER HOURS. WE PUBLISH NEWSPAPERS. OUR WRITERS ARE KIDS. STUDENTS EXPLORE THE CORE SUBJECT AREAS, THEN THEY WRITE AND PUBLISH. OUR MISSION IS TO SPARK ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND BRIDGE ACHIEVEMENT GAPS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

BASED IN DANE COUNTY, SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS DELIVERS HIGH-IMPACT, CORE SUBJECT ACADEMIC INSTRUCTION DURING AFTER-SCHOOL AND SUMMER HOURS. STUDENTS IN GRADES 2-12 WRITE AND PUBLISH NEWSPAPERS. STUDENT REPORTERS EXPLORE HISTORY, SCIENCE, BOOKS, AND THE ARTS. SSFP STUDENTS LEARN PRACTICAL ACADEMIC SKILLS AND TRANSFER THOSE SKILLS TO THE CLASSROOM.

  • SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS (SSFP) DELIVERS HIGH-IMPACT ACADEMIC INSTRUCTION DURING AFTER-SCHOOL AND SUMMER HOURS. SSFP USES EXTENDED-DAY ACADEMICS TO BUILD PERMANENT COMMUNITY ASSETS. WE SUSTAIN IMPACT OVER TIME. OUR STUDENT-WRITTEN NEWSPAPER CONTENT FOCUSES ON THE CORE SUBJECT AREAS -- SCIENCE, HISTORY, SOCIAL STUDIES, AND BOOK REVIEWS. SSFP ENROLLS STUDENTS IN GRADES 2-12. STUDENT WRITERS LEARN THE ROPES, POLISH ACADEMIC SKILLS, AND GET PROMOTED UP THE NEWSROOM RANKS. OLDER, MORE EXPERIENCED STUDENTS ASSIST YOUNGER, LESS EXPERIENCED PEERS. WE ALSO PROVIDE MATH TUTORING AND OPERATE A NETWORK OF YOUTH BOOK CLUBS. SCHOOL GRADES, READING AND MATH SCORES, AND SCHOOL-DAY ATTENDANCE ARE MEASURED. STUDENT WORK IS PUBLISHED AND DISTRIBUTED, WHICH INSPIRES YOUNG READERS ACROSS WISCONSIN.

    Expenses $338,866

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Amanda Kroninger

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $4,200
    From this org
    $4,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jewel Adams

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dave Johnsen

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Amit Pal

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laura Devries

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jodi Goldberg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Taylor Kilgore

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $9,600
    From this org
    $9,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Mary Kramer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Susan Peterson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melanie Quarles

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Helen Zhang

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dave Zweifel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Kramer

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $82,414
    From this org
    $77,414
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,000
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $446,895
    Expenses
    $438,629
    Contributions
    $439,244
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $434,818
    Expenses
    $463,748
    Contributions
    $430,567
    Grants paid
    $1,300
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $438,546
    Expenses
    $507,503
    Contributions
    $437,658
    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
    $505,019
    Expenses
    $414,612
    Assets (EOY)
    $411,595

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $515,824
    Expenses
    $262,099
    Assets (EOY)
    $325,238

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $246,459
    Expenses
    $319,338
    Assets (EOY)
    $70,361

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $336,738
    Expenses
    $342,588
    Assets (EOY)
    $141,317

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $358,329
    Expenses
    $303,609
    Assets (EOY)
    $149,311

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $268,060
    Expenses
    $296,545
    Assets (EOY)
    $94,315

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $319,946
    Expenses
    $240,652
    Assets (EOY)
    $124,742

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $223,956
    Expenses
    $232,772
    Assets (EOY)
    $51,157

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $218,696
    Expenses
    $255,082
    Assets (EOY)
    $55,277

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $193,646
    Expenses
    $155,830
    Assets (EOY)
    $92,724

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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.