2025-04-14T22:23:40-04:00 2024-09-30 990 2023-10-01 954174562 LOS ANGELES POVERTY DEPARTMENT % CATHERINE GUDIS PRESIDENT LOSA 2134131077 PO BOX 26190 LOS ANGELES CA 900260190 Catherine Gudis President 2025-04-15 true Holly Witham P00662017 6263034222 2025-04-15 X 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z CATHERINE GUDIS PRESIDENT PO BOX 26190 LOS ANGELES CA 900260190 750866 false X www.lapovertydept.org X 1988 CA Los Angeles Poverty Department creates performances and multi-disciplinary artworks utilizing the talents of people living in poverty. 6 6 5 24 0 0 474648 721672 6650 27969 0 650 1525 575 482823 750866 0 0 0 0 250574 324162 0 0 53783 121275 176240 371849 500402 110974 250464 342324 605532 0 0 342324 605532 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. false false 307496 0 0 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 14th 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 featuring the artists. LAPDs Welcome to the Covid Hotel exhibition opened at SRHMA on March 9 2024 and was on view for the remainder of the FY activated by 2 LAPD theatrical performances and 3 community conversations. The project documented and disseminated the experiences of frontline workers at County Quarantine and Isolation medical shelters for homeless Covid patients. Total participants: approx. 20 Skid Row rehearsals workshop participants; 10 cast members 10 panelists; and 180 audience. On May 25 2024 LAPD presented Walk the Talk our biennial performance parade. More than 200 participants included 8 honorees volunteers cast and audience. Biographical scripts about the honorees were distilled from LAPDs interviews and performed by our Skid Row ensemble who participated in rehearsals workshops over three months. Skid Row arts educator Hayk Makhmuryan created honoree portraits. LAPD produced and handed out tabloid newspapers to people in the neighborhood. LAPD archived project materials in our publicly accessible online archive. Over the summer we produced a publication Community & Cosmology: Networks of Liberation to conclude our prior years Community Curator project. Throughout FY2023-24 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 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 FY2023-24. Working with other Skid Row arts organizations LAPD created and distributed 2,500 copies issue a quarterly ArtsZine highlighting neighborhood artists and activities. Throughout FY2023-24 LAPD archivists worked with 9 volunteers to continue to put our archival holdings in 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 15 volunteers who supported LA Poverty Department projects throughout the year. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 307496 true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false 13 0 true 5 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false 6 6 true false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true false false false CA X John Malpede 2134131077 250 S Broadway Los Angeles CA 90012 Catherine Gudis President 13.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Aram Moshayedi Vice President 3.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Zelenne Cardenas Treasurer 3.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Julia Carnahan Secretary 3.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Laurance Lavin Board Member 3.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 John Malpede Founding Artistic Director 40.00 0.00 X 66156 0 0 66156 0 0 0 false false false 0 0 0 0 434386 287286 0 721672 Honoraria workshops residency 711190 27969 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27969 650 650 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 575 0 0 0 575 0 575 575 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 750866 1225 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 66156 39694 13231 13231 0 0 0 0 225723 124412 68830 32482 0 0 0 0 6666 3733 1866 1067 25617 14346 7173 4099 40475 0 40475 0 0 0 0 0 1962 0 1962 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 806 806 0 0 2605 1649 477 477 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 52227 51807 150 270 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4796 1839 2424 532 Program Expenses 63598 63598 0 0 Dues & Memberships 2934 1858 538 538 Taxes, Licenses, Permits 910 0 910 0 Telecommunications 5927 3754 1087 1087 0 0 0 0 500402 307496 139123 53783 0 0 0 0 267524 170166 10000 10650 0 0 62500 422416 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2300 2300 342324 605532 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 279824 258116 62500 347416 342324 605532 342324 605532 X 250464 0 0 0 0 12744 X true false false false X 337167 306638 293231 474648 721672 2133356 11050 30520 19900 6650 27969 96089 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 348217 337158 313131 481298 749641 2229445 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2229445 149 192 0 0 650 991 8756 6500 5500 1525 575 22856 8905 6692 5500 1525 1225 23847 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 357122 343850 318631 482823 750866 2253292 0.9894 0.9768 0.0106 0.0232 X Part III - Line 12 | Year:, Amount:, Description:| 2019, , | 2020, | 2021, | 2022, | 2023, | RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Part VI, Line 2 John Malpede - Artistic Director and Henriette Browers - Associate Director are married to each other. Part VI, Line 11b Copies of completed form 990 and accompanying schedules are made available to the board members before the form is signed and transmitted to the IRS. Part VI, Line 12c The Board consistently and regularly monitors our conflict of interest policy. There have been no conflicts of interest but enforcement would be determined by a vote of the Board without the participation of reclused persons. Part XI, Line 9 | Description:, Explanation:, Amount:| Release of restricted funds, Release of previous year restricted funds to reclassification to unrestricted, $12744|