2024-09-26T19:39:30-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 882990233 HORSECHART COLLABORATIVE HORS 3236460466 12009 Hoffman St Suite 102 Studio City CA 91604 Brett Aune President 3236460466 2024-09-25 1 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X X X X 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 50000 0 50000 50000 50000 0 0 0 0 50000 50000 0 0 50000 50000 Theatre and other live performance. Nothing for this year. We incorporated in April 2022 and first received funding in September 2022. All activity during 2022 was preparatory for future years. We received no funding at all in 2023 and we had to postpone intended programming due to schedule issues and health issues. Therefore, FY 2023 became essentially an idle, preparatory year as we planned for inaugural programming in 2024 (which happened, as did additional funding and expenditures, and all of this will be reported in our 2024 taxes). 0 0 0 Brett Allen Aune President 5 0 0 0 Steven A Luff Vice President 0 0 0 0 Samantha Klein Secretary 1 0 0 0 David Hoctor Treasurer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CA Brett Allen Aune 12009 Hoffman St Suite 102 Studio City CA 91604 3236460466 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 0 0 0 50000 0 50000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 50000 0 50000 0 50000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 50000 0 X Hello! I'm begging for a bit of grace because this filing is delinquent. I don't know if this really counts as "Reasonable Cause" for lateness, but the truth is sort of in two parts: Family tragedy and stupidity. 1) We incorporated in 2022 and I really didn't expect to receive any funds for a while; we were in the long-term planning stages, and I assumed it would continue that way. In September of 2022, we unexpectedly received a very generous gift - the first influx of any money into the company (I had paid for everything before that out of pocket, including all of the setup fees, etc.). That same month - September 2022 - my mom suffered a stroke. She was the sole caregiver to my dad, who has Alzheimer's - and suddenly she was hospitalized and unable to care for him. They live in another state and I'm an only child, so I moved to CO for many months to help her with her recovery and to help him with day-to-day life. Helping them kind of took over my life and I really didn't think much about the 501c3, partially because I was so proud to have finalized everything after a couple years of working at it - including incorporating, applying for non-profit, tax-exempt status with both the Feds and the State, and a few other State agencies I needed to register with (because California). That's the personal tragedy aspect: Basically, my mind was elsewhere and I wasn't thinking clearly. 2) Now, here's the Stupidity part: In April 2023, while I was preparing taxes both for myself and for a small business I run, I actually thought for a moment about the 501c3. However, I reasoned "If we didn't spend any money during the fiscal year, and if we didn't engage in any programming at all, we don't need to file!" I genuinely don't know WHY that made sense to me, but it did. So much so, mind you, that I thought the same thing THE FOLLOWING YEAR, when prepping taxes for 2023! As you can see in this return, in FY 2023, we received NO additional money, and we also had no programming or expenditures, so once again I reasoned "No need to file! There's really nothing to report!" (Which also means, dear reader, that you or someone else will receive this exact same message after going through my 2022 filing - also delinquent but submitted a few hours ago!) So there you have it. I don't know if there's any wiggle room on your end, but I'd really appreciate it, if so. I'm an honest person and I care about doing things by the book. I also started this company as a labor of love, with the intention of bringing performing arts to underserved kids and to seniors who can't get out. I work really hard, whether it's this company or my small business or caring for my folks. And I screwed up. But it certainly wasn't purposeful and it CERTAINLY won't happen again. If you've read this far, I appreciate it and I ask for some grace in whether or not a penalty is applied to the company. We can really use every dollar we have to help our community. Thanks for your time. Take care. Brett Aune