2024-09-30T15:17:13-07:00 2023-09-30 473069962 Abrahams & Associates 23615 El Toro Rd Ste X354 Lake Forest CA 92630 990 2022-10-01 954785834 The Jester & Pharley Phund JEST 3105444733 PO Box 817 Palos Verdes Estates CA 90274 Barbara Saltzman President 3105444733 2024-02-01 true Deanna Abrahams P01245743 7149630773 2024-09-30 2022 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z Barbara Saltzman PO Box 817 Palos Verdes Estates CA 90274 190471 false X www.TheJester.org X 2000 CA The Jester & Pharley Phund is dedicated to providing educational experiences that give every child a sense of hope, a feeling of self-empowerment, a love of learning, the joy of laughter, and the desire to live up to The Jester & Pharley's motto: "It's up to us to make a difference. It's up to us to care." 14 14 2 5 -18310 0 384978 179914 0 3865 6402 -9996 -18310 378847 168006 0 0 169411 144547 0 0 56931 66188 226342 210735 152505 -42729 559615 518231 32369 21545 527246 496686 The Jester & Pharley Phund is dedicated to providing educational experiences that give every child a sense of hope, a feeling of self-empowerment, a love of learning, the joy of laughter, and the desire to live up to The Jester & Pharley's motto: "It's up to us to make a difference. It's up to us to care." false false 57780 0 0 Our medical program - Smiles for Kids With Cancer - contributes to achieving our exempt purpose by bringing educational and emotional support to hospitalized children and providing health-care professionals with powerful tools to raise the spirits of ill children and their families with the N.Y. Times best-selling "The Jester Has Lost His Jingle" children's book. The book is available in its original English edition as well as in a bilingual English/Spanish edition. To date, 69,917 books have been donated to over 400 hospitals, including 5,852 books during this fiscal year. Support for this program comes from foundations, businesses, civic groups and individuals, with many donors honoring the memory of loved ones. Given limited storage space at medical centers, "Jester" books are distributed on an ongoing basis throughout the year according to each hospital's needs. Expenses for this program include the printing and personalizing of each bookplate acknowledging the donor(s) of each gift book and Jester & Pharley Doll as well as the cost of goods, communication, storage, packaging and shipping. Hospitals and recipient families have particularly appreciated the donation of "Jester" books for their pediatric patients in 2022-23 because the pandemic has often resulted in young patients being isolated from families and friends. " 'Jester Has Lost His Jingle' books are treasured by our patients and families, many of whom face a myriad of socioeconomic challenges, especially during times of crisis," reported Dr. Niloufar Tehrani, Director of the Primary Care Clinic at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA. "The beautiful story and message from the book can greatly encourage a child who is dealing with a significant illness. Thank you very much for thinking of our patients." 137222 0 0 Our literacy programs increase elementary students' interest in reading - opening the door to reading achievement and future academic accomplishments. Following inspiring assemblies, students participate in a Jester Read-A-Thon that generates the donation of "The Jester Has Lost His Jingle" books and Jester & Pharley Dolls to hospitalized children in their community. In the process, students get hooked on reading - raising grade-level reading, test scores, fluency and comprehension while developing growing empathy for others. When students discover they can help sick kids simply by reading, they dive into the project with gusto, boosting their own literacy while reading to bring smiles to patients, many of whom are low-income and have few, if any, books in their homes. The result is two-fold: inspiring a new generation of young readers while bringing hope and encouragement to ill children. Altogether, during the past 22 years, students have read a total of 54,756,032 pages to help ill children benefit from "The Jester's" messages of self-empowerment, perseverance and humor. Expenses for these programs include the printing and personalizing of each bookplate acknowledging the donor(s) of each gift book and doll as well as the cost of project development, assemblies, communication, goods, storage, packaging, transportation and shipping. A. Reading Makes A Difference (RMD) We bring this sponsor-supported literacy program to low-income schools, especially those with many English learners. The program helps further educational equity among minority, disenfranchised students coping with poverty, social isolation, learning loss and negative effects of Covid19. The participating school receives a set of three Jester & Pharley Phund educator-developed Jester Enrichment Manuals that complement state standards and a copy of the hardcover bilingual English/Spanish "Jester" for each classroom. Phund personnel and volunteers provide a meaningful PowerPoint presentation with motivating assemblies for all students that expand their interest in reading - furthering academic achievement and compassion. Support for this program comes from foundations, businesses, civic groups and individuals. We have successfully transitioned our previous on-site program to a new, hybrid virtual format, offering a pandemic-safe resource to support literacy development across demographics, even taking advantage of a digital format to host a Zoom Q&A with The Jester's Mom. The virtual session with Barbara Saltzman, the late author's mother, sparks intense conversations with students about reading, writing, illness and the challenges faced by author-artist David Saltzman, who died of cancer in 1990 at 22. Students see parallels from Covid's impact on them to cancer's impact on the author-artist. At the request of administrators and teachers, we have expanded our focus on Social Emotional Learning (SEL) so that students and their families can benefit even more from the author's central messages of hope, resilience, perseverance, humor and optimism during this unsettling time. While the pandemic reduced the number of schools able to take advantage of our on-site program during this fiscal year, schools participating on Zoom found that their students progressed. In the face of the pandemic's obstacles, our program offers key tools in pushing back against these cascading effects. One Los Angeles-area Title I teacher participating on Zoom said her students did not regress during the pandemic - they progressed: "Students felt motivated to read more." "Throughout this event, students start checking out books more than they usually do," said the librarian at Jefferson Elementary in Compton, which has participated in the program for 12 years. "Even when the event ends, the students still continuously check out books and like to test themselves on how much they can read. We are glad this has been a part of the children's lives because it not only encourages reading but also awareness of patients in the hospital." In the fiscal year 2022-23, the 19 underserved schools enthusiastically participating in our RMD program read 1,331,767 pages, resulting in 550 "Jester" books and 475 Jester & Pharley Dolls donated to hospitals in their communities. B. Reading To Give (RTG) Students from middle-income elementary schools, inspired by "The Jester,X create a Jester Read-A-Thon. They read in their free time, raising funds to donate "Jester" books and Jester & Pharley Dolls to local pediatric patients. Although the RTG program didn't take place in the fiscal year 2022-2023, we anticipate schools joining this project again soon and in future years. We are proud to continue to fulfill and expand our educational mission with "The Jester Has Lost His Jingle" as our inspiring centerpiece. A graduate student at Children's Literature Centre at Frostburg State University, MD, summed up the book's time-honored ability to motivate children: "When I was a child, my grandmother read this wonderful book to me when I would go visit her. I asked for it to be read over and over. It's one of my personal favorites with a beautiful message of hope and joy. I hope that it helps more children find joy during these difficult days." 195002 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 0 0 true 2 true true true false false false false false false false false false false false X 14 14 true false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false CA X X Barbara Saltzman 3105444733 PO Box 817 Palos Verdes Estates CA 90274 X Barbara Saltzman President 20.00 X X 0 0 0 Allan Jones Vice President 15.00 X X 0 0 0 Joe Saltzman Vice President 2.00 X X 0 0 0 Amy Forte Treasurer 2.00 X X 0 0 0 Liz Mitchell Secretary 2.00 X X 0 0 0 Ernie Arboles Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Craig Fox Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Mandaar Gokhale Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Mauricio Heilbron Jr Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Beth Kleid Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Jennifer Saltzman Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Michael Saltzman Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Mark Wiedenmann Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Deborah Zwelling Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 false false false 179914 179914 6402 0 6402 4155 22465 -18310 -18310 168006 0 -18310 6402 123623 117442 6181 0 11467 10894 573 0 9457 8984 473 0 2140 0 2140 0 2705 2570 135 0 16368 14996 1372 0 11924 10732 1192 0 1912 1816 96 0 386 347 39 0 199 179 20 0 13894 12505 1389 0 Storage 6830 6830 0 0 Auto Expense 2722 2586 136 0 Education Program Expense 2564 2564 0 0 Taxes and Licenses 516 0 516 0 4028 2557 1471 0 210735 195002 15733 0 148054 82141 130026 136417 17638 17158 81060 77752 18996 17561 0 1435 182837 203328 559615 518231 1660 3306 25419 13284 5290 4955 32369 21545 X 527246 496686 527246 496686 559615 518231 -42729 X false false false X 0 302350 222630 222601 384978 179913 1312472 0 0 302350 222630 222601 384978 179913 1312472 613115 699357 4042 5116 4134 3865 6402 23559 0 0 1336031 0.52350 0.69570 X 0 0 0 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 18996 17561 1435 1435 Other current liabilities 4955 4955 JB Saltzman See Sched O See Sched O X 115000 13284 false true true 13284 Other Schedule L Part II, Loans to and from interested persons Other Name of person: J&B Saltzman Other Relationship with organization: Co-founders/President & VP Other Purpose of Loan: Working Capital Pt VI, Line 2 The following board memebers have a family relationship with other board members: Barbara Saltzman and Joe Saltzman are married. Michael Saltzman is Barbara and Joe's son and he is married to Jennifer Saltzman Pt VI, Line 12c Board members are required annually to review and sign a Conflict of Interest Disclosure Statement Pt VI, Line 15a Other than the Executive Director, the organization currently does not have any top management officials or other key employees that are compensated. The President, who serves without compensation, compiles available comparability data in the determination of salaries for the Executive Director and any other top management officials or key employees. The data and recommendation of salary based on studying the comparables is presented to the Board of Governors and the suggested salary is discussed and voted upon. Pt VI, Line 19 The organization makes its governing documents and financial statements available to the public on its website and upon request. Pt VI, Line 11b The form 990 will be sent to the President, Treasurer and Executive Director for review and approval and circulated to all members of the governing body prior to filing Pt VI, Line 15b Other than the Executive Director, the organization currently does not have any top management officials or other key employees that are compensated. The President, who serves without compensation, compiles available comparability data in the determination of salaries for the Executive Director and any other top management officials or key employees. The data and recommendation of salary based on studying the comparables is presented to the Board of Governors and the suggested salary is discussed and voted upon.