Street Poets Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Seeking peace: we facilitated 44 hybrid (virtual and in-person) "seeking peace" poetry & meditation workshops via zoom and the street poets office throughout the year, serving an average attendance of 10-20 youth and young adult participants weekly.in addition, we facilitated a "seeking peace outside!" session at reuben ingold park with love source l.a. (aug. 18, 2024).open mic/street poets presents & dj sessions: we hosted 9 "sp presents" in-person community open-mic events and public poetry readings/interviews over the course of the year. These events were held at various partner sites, including pieter performance space, la plaza de cultura y artes, emerson college, and art share-la in the downtown los angeles arts district, averaging 45 attendees at each.our featured artists at each event were well-established, professional poets and performers from across the country; and our audience spanned from students to alumni, to their families, street poets supporters, and beyond. These events offer the youth in our community an opportunity to have their voices and creativity heard, as well as be exposed to poets and other professional artists.other special collaborations included: we partnered with youth mentoring connection for our 2 annual youth retreats at big bear lake - a young women's and non-binary youth retreat and a young men's retreat. In addition, street poets and youth mentoring connection collaborated for a total of 4 monthly poetry workshops for an average group of 20 youth and young adults, as well as a "voices in motion" poetry and drumming event held at youth mentoring connection for a crowd of about 30 youth and adult participants.we collaborated with unlikely collaborators for the intuitive leadership professional development course (november 25, 2024), the unlikely collaborators summit (june 20th-22nd, 2025), and the moth community workshop (february 5th - 6th, 2025).we attended an international arts & revolution summit (june 14th-23rd, 2024) through witness for peace. We also hosted 3 international delegations in partnership with the international citizen diplomacy of los angeles - promoting music through social change (oct. 2, 2024), empowering youth community leaders (oct. 24, 2024) and music entrepreneurship (may 15, 2025).other community workshops: street poets facilitated additional, one-off and short-series performances and workshops, including our poetry and gardening program, which we facilitated at metropolitan high school, along with a special workshop at one of our open mics.our professional development sessions, through our partnership with ahjn, with los padrinos juvenile hall, dexter middle school in whittier, and department of arts and culture, served both youth and adults virtually and in person. Through these programs, street poets reached over 400 additional youth and adults.street poets also participated in conferences, convenings and invites to speak and present, including a commission on HIV: 2025 consumer resource fair (feb. 13, 2025) hosted by the los angeles county commission on HIV caucasus, pen america world voices festival (may 3, 2025), aspen opportunity youth forum convening (may 21, 2025) hosted by l.a. Opportunity youth collaborative, and justice and art jam (may 24, 2025) organized by la freewaves.we mentored (by phone, texting, conference platforms such as zoom, and in person) a dozen or so current and former students, while maintaining regular email and social media contact with a dedicated network of over a hundred students and alumni and supporters.our professional development sessions, through our partnership with ahjn, with the whittier, pasadena, and pomona unified school districts; and programming for soledad enrichment action (sea), serving both youth and adults virtually and in person. Through these programs street poets reached over 100 additional youth and adults. Street poets also participated in conferences and convenings, including the social justice learning ins

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 68.2%; rating input score 68
• Program expense ratio: 73.6%; rating input score 74
• Fundraising efficiency: $6.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Fail
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 8.8%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.52; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 27.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings