SACRAMENTO PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION
EIN 61-1614386 · Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
What they do
Final Year Per Following Outline -At Their 2016 End-of-the-year Meeting, The SPPF Board of Directors Discussed How The Organization Had Completed Many of The Objectives It Set Out to Accomplish Over The Last Eight Years and Agreed That It Was Time to Begin Winding Up The Affairs of The Organization and Dissolve It. The Board Elected to Donate to Local Charities Any Funds Remaining In The Organization After Legal, Accounting and Other Closeout Expenses Were Paid.Between January and April 2017, The Board Approved Distributing More Than $160,000 of SPPF Funds to Two Sacramento-area Charities, As Follows:$66,206 From SPPFs Think BIG Initiative Was Donated to St. HOPE Academy.$78,975 From SPPFs Think BIG Initiative Was Donated to Stand Up for Sacramento Schools.$10,320 From SPPFs State of The City Events Were Donated to St. HOPE Academy.$4,949 From SPPFs for Arts Sake Initiative, Intended to Promote Arts Education In Public Schools, Was Donated to St. HOPE Academy for The Same Purpose.With
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They name their leaders3 people are listed in the latest report.
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Money in and money out
Reported spending amounts
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Leadership and board
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Board and leadership roster (3)
CASSANDRA HB JENNINGSSEC/TREASURER
FRED HIESTANDPRESIDENT
TRACY STIGLERVICE PRESIDENT
About this charity
- Location
- 1717 I STREET, SACRAMENTO, CA 95811
- County
- Sacramento
- In care of
- FRED HIESTAND
- Primary officer
- FRED HIESTAND, President
How to reach them
Filing and classification
- Latest tax year
- 2017
- Tax period began
- January 1, 2017
- Return type
- 990EZ
- Tax preparer
- RITA COPELAND
- IRS tax category
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations