California · Nonprofit
POOR MAGAZINE INC
POOR MAGAZINE INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,515,942 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($700,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $545k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Poor Magazine Inc does
Mission
"All of Poor Magazine's programs are focused on providing community based media, art, education, & solutions. The goal is to create access for silenced voices of people of color, elderly & disa...List of Program Accomplishments 2024.-- We moved our 22nd resident into HOMEFULNESS #1 DEECOLONIZE ACADEMY is in our 11th year with 11 enrolled students and 3 of our graduates becoming teachers13th year of SLIDING SCALE CAF, a radical redistribution (mutual aid) of healthy food groceries, diapers & media, support for deep East Oakland every Thursday; Continued in-person People Skool for East Oakland poverty skolaz with Theatre of the Poor and Po Peoples Radio workshop series; The Po Poets and Poverty Skola authors of Poor Press (www.poorpress.net) released their books, poems and anthologies in Feb 2024. One new book to come in 2025!; Listen to PNNKEXU 96.1FM every Tuesday & Thursday for multi- generational radio programming: We are All Connected, The Peoples Botnica, Dr. Sweets Critiqu
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Fighting against the war on our houseless bodies after the Supreme Court's Grants Pass decisionLed a national press conference to Decline to Accept Grants Pass.Launched "Sweeping us to Nowhere" WeSearch (aka research) investigation into sweeps after Grants Pass, with RooflessRadio reports across Yelamu (SF), Tovaangar (LA), Huchiun (Oakland), so-called Sacramento. Launched "Black Land Theft & Black Homelessness in Black History Month" youth and elder poverty skola WeSearch Report.
$314,346 spent100% of program spendingMamafesting Homefulness #4 in Tovaangar (LA) to permanently house our relativesBegan a movement/family collaboration with our fellow Houseless relatives at Aetna Street Solidarity to help them Liberate Mama Earth and build their own forever homes. This October, we had the first HERstoric Elephant Meeting with 22 houseless poverty skolaz in so-called LA to fully mamafest Homefulness #4 with the help of ancestors and an amazing solidarity family.
Crushing Wheelchairs movie is in production - coming in 2025After selling out 3 productions of the original theater show, Crushing Wheelchairs, with an all Houseless cast honoring ancestors of homelessness, poLice terror and sweeps the Crushing Wheelchairs narrative film is in editing and will be released in 2025. View the "Behind The Scenes: CRUSHING WHEELCHAIRS" on Youtube and stay connected to learn more!
Homefulness #2 in Deep East Huichin (Oakland) construction underwayThe construction of Homefulness #2, a fully off-grid project and a collaboration between Poor Magazine and Wood Street Commons, has commenced. We acquired the first two fully equipped container homes for Homefulness 2 water and sewer system and two Pachamama garden boxes launched with DeeColonize Academy students. Still working on raising money for off-grid solar power for this powerful liberation project.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $314,346.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.9M to $2.1M (+12%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
98% of POOR MAGAZINE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $76k → $162k.
12 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of POOR MAGAZINE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
POOR MAGAZINE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund POOR MAGAZINE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 56% · 2019 57% · 2020 59% · 2021 22% · 2022 66% · 2023 62% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
27% of POOR MAGAZINE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
86% of POOR MAGAZINE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $209k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
POOR MAGAZINE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like POOR MAGAZINE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POOR MAGAZINE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds POOR MAGAZINE INC?
- POOR MAGAZINE INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,515,942 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($700,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does POOR MAGAZINE INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,515,942 in grants to POOR MAGAZINE INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POOR MAGAZINE INC?
- IMPACTASSETSINC is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POOR MAGAZINE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 20 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing