2024-11-12T06:59:39-08:00 2023-12-31 208021147 MIG MURPHY SISTROM CPA PC 2216 Whitley Dr DURHAM NC 27707 990EZ 2023-01-01 462636244 Student Voice Inc STUD 8034466642 8 The Green Ste 5682 Dover DE 19901 Merrit Jones Senior Advisor 2024-11-12 true true Suzanne Cross P02405653 9194191119 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z Modified Cash stuvoice.org X X 159380 X 151880 7500 1625 -1625 0 0 0 157755 2200 117282 51368 138 11783 182771 -25016 397730 372714 X 394408 372719 3550 560 397958 373279 228 565 397730 372714 Student Voice provides students with the platform to become leaders to change their local schools and communities. We meet students where they are and identify student-centric solutions that address the systemic inequity in the American education system. Our programs allow us to follow a theory of change to amplify, aggregate and accelerate student voices. National Outreach - Student Voice did not conduct any National Outreach programming in 2023. The only expenses incurred were related to depreciation/amortization. 441 Student Voice Strategies - Student Voice Strategies prepares institutions to accept youth leaders as partners in making change, while challenging systems that have kept marginalized voices out for too long. Student Voice team members work with corporations, organizations, school districts, and other institutions by providing coaching for adults who are seeking to center youth voice, facilitate and co-brand panels, workshops, and trainings on youth voice, conduct focus groups, listening sessions, and stakeholder meetings, and provide comprehensive youth engagement strategies for adult-led organizations. Student Voice executed 3 Student Voice Strategies projects with corporations, organizations, school districts, and other institutions. 2200 7701 Awareness & Outreach - Student Voice did not conduct any Awareness & Outreach programming in 2023. The only expenses incurred were related to postage and depreciation/amortization. 589 8731 Zak Malamed Board Member 1.00 0 Nikki Adeli Board Member 1.00 0 Andrew Brennen Board Member 1.00 0 Merrit Jones Senior Advisor 5.00 6000 Michelle Renee Valladares Board Member 1.00 0 X true false false false false false false 0 0 0 false 0 0 false Megan Simmons 8 The Green Ste 5682 Dover DE 19901 8034466642 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 79837 186586 342191 307563 151880 1068057 0 0 79837 186586 342191 307563 151880 1068057 825390 242667 372 335 341 31 1079 0 0 1069136 205376 0.22700 0.19710 X Current Year Facts and Circumstances: Student Voice, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that works in all 50 states to position and equip students as storytellers, organizers, and partners who advocate for student-driven solutions to educational inequity. Student Voice's work is driven by the belief that in order to achieve equity in schools, power must be meaningfully shifted towards young people most marginalized by the education system.Student Voices public support percentage for the five-year period ended December 31, 2023, was approximately 23%.Student Voice, Inc. maintained a continuous and bona fide program for solicitation of funds from the general public and the community of people interested in students' contributions to their own educational environment. It has relied on funding sources from nonprofit, philanthropic, and corporate grants and donations as well as from individual contributions. Beginning September 2022, and continuing into 2023, they engaged outside contractors to assist with evaluation of the effectiveness of their programs in advancing the organizations mission and paused some programming as part of this discovery process around programming, operations, and structure. This work resulted in the decision to begin the dissolution process in 2024 and the identification of a successor organization that aligns with the mission and programming of Student Voice. They will no longer be actively soliciting for Student Voice during this winding down process but will direct any donor inquiries to the successor organization.Public support is approximately 23%, which is well above the 10% minimum, and is above their 2022 percentage by approximately 3%. The reason there is an increase in 2023 is due to a decrease in funding from private foundations who have been supporting their overall mission and program expansion costs since Student Voice is planning to dissolve in 2024-2025.Student Voice's support for the five-year period ended December 31, 2023 came from a variety of unrelated individuals, organizations, and foundations. Support in 2023 came from 9 donors: one individual, two organizations, one private foundation, and the US government (Employee Retention Credit awarded as part of COVID relief).The population served by Student Voice, Inc. consists of students who tend to be young, and therefore do not have the means to give significant amounts, so gifts from this population are small.The Student Voice, Inc. board is comprised of a group of students and educational leaders from a variety of lived experiences in the United States school system and in the field of educational equity, representing a broad cross-section of the community. The board members are spread throughout the United States, representing multiple geographic areas, and cultural backgrounds.Student Voice, Inc. provides services to the general public by creating opportunities for students to address educational equity throughout the educational nonprofit field and the public education system by participation in our various programs. Educational equity is a social justice concern that impacts everyone.Student Voice, Inc. works with a number of school systems, school administrators, and student leaders who participate in their various programs including "Student Voice Strategies", a paid partnership with school systems and other entities interested in learning from their team how to elevate youth voices in their own mission-driven educational efforts. As part of the winding down process in 2023, Student Voice only worked with one other entity as part of the Student Voice Strategies program.Student Voice, Inc. conducted one program in 2023, which has been continued from 2020, as presented on Part III of the Form 990-EZ. Beginning September 2022, and continuing into 2023, they engaged outside contractors to assist with evaluation of the effectiveness of their programs in advancing the organizations mission and paused some programming as part of this discovery process around programming, operations, and structure. This work resulted in the decision to begin the dissolution and winding down process in 2024 and identify a successor organization that aligns with the mission and programming of Student Voice.Student Voice, Inc. has received $60,000 over the last five years from two different public charities and all of them required reporting on the quantitative and qualitative accomplishments of the programs funded. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Other Expenses.1002 Office Expenses $3185 Other Expenses.1003 Information Technology $3601 Other Expenses.1012 Insurance $2367 Other Expenses.1 Depreciation/Amortization $1365 Other Expenses.2 Dues, Subscriptions & Licenses $998 Other Expenses.3 Staff & Volunteer Training $267 Other Assets.1003 Machinery and Equipment - Beginning $1598 Machinery and Equipment - Ending $0 Other Assets.1012 Intangible Assets - Beginning $1952 Intangible Assets - Ending $560 Total Liabilities.1001 Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses - Beginning $228 Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses - Ending $565 Activities Not Previously Reported to the IRS All external facing programming except for the Student Voice Strategies program was paused in September of 2022 in order to evaluate programming and the discovery process relating to organization operations and structure. Two outside contractors were brought in to lead staff in a discovery process to determine the effectiveness of programming in advancing the organization's mission.