2024-04-24T19:55:47-07:00 2023-06-30 990EZ 2023-01-01 822258485 ALTUS LIBER ACADEMY ALTU 8013683476 3121 W Mojean St Tucson AZ 85745 Kristina Higginson Administrative Vice President 8013683476 2024-02-28 Kristina Higginson 999009999 1 0 11 1 AAL2 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X X www.ALTUSTucson.com X X Charitable Organization 13405 X 814 10788 0 12 0 0 0 0 1791 250 1541 0 0 0 0 13155 0 0 0 0 3000 0 9046 12046 1109 4872 0 5981 4872 5981 0 0 0 0 4872 5981 0 0 4872 5981 ALTUS Liber Academy is a homeschool co-op. We provide educational classes for the children of 32 families. Our classes cover subjects like history, art, STEM, and writing. We serve children from birth to age 18, as well as their parents. We are a Leadership Education community that gathers together to participate in Scholar Projects and Junior School classes. We use Leadership Education to inspire our members with the vision, mentorship, support, and community they need to discover and live their missions. We meet once a week, 16 days per semester. We put on a Shakespeare play each spring for community members to enjoy. We offer support to parents in the form of weekly classes, biannual retreats, and various family-oriented activities. ALTUS Liber Academy offered weekly educational classes for 16 weeks for 32 families. Each week, we ran 29 classes for 110 children aged 0 to 18. Class offerings included art, physical education, constitutional law, Shakespearean acting, writing, and literature analysis, among others. 0 X 8553 ALTUS Liber Academy offered support to homeschooling parents. We provided 4 parent classes each week for 16 weeks for 37 parents. We also hosted monthly book discussions for the parents in our academy. Additionally, we put on a retreat for parents, including 10 motivational speakers, a service project, activities, and meals. 0 X 1180 ALTUS Liber Academy put on a full-length Shakespeare play in May 2023. Children aged 12 to 16 memorized and performed the play for a community audience. 0 X 250 9983 Nancy Prater President 11 0 0 0 Cassie Dixon Administrative Vice President 9 0 0 0 Cara Richardson Membership Vice President 9 0 0 0 Lizz Anderson Junior School Director 9 0 0 0 Olivia Votaw Principal Mentor 9 0 0 0 Kristina Higginson Secretary 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 AZ Kristina Higginson 3121 W Mojean St Tucson AZ 85745 8013683476 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 0 27 0 166 814 1007 4560 4992 17966 12579 40097 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4587 4992 18132 13393 41104 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 41104 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 0 0 0 0 0 4587 4992 18132 13393 41104 X Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 We used $9046 to operate the homeschooling co-op classes and activities we offer. The money was used on expenses like class supplies (craft items, books, etc), props and scenery for the Shakespeare play we put on, and school-wide events (like a Fall Family Ball and Spring Hoe Down). ALTUS Liber Academy submitted a written request dated 3/23/23 to change our accounting period from a calendar year to a fiscal year. However, we never received confirmation that this request was granted. We never received any notices informing us that our tax due date had changed or that our accounting period had changed or that we needed to file taxes for a short year. I believed that we were still on a calendar year and that, as usual, I would need to file a 990N e-postcard in summer 2023. I went to the IRS website multiple times to try to submit a 990N e-postcard in summer 2023, but each time the website stated, "IRS records indicate that you have already filed a Form 990N (e-Postcard) for this organization for this year." Since we received no confirmation that our accounting period had changed, we assumed that we were still on a calendar year and that taxes had already been filed (our governing board members changed that summer as well). On January 30, 2024, I again tried to submit our 990N e-postcard for 2023. However, the website again stated, "IRS records indicate that you have already filed a Form 990N (e-Postcard) for this organization for this year." Since I knew that was untrue, I called the IRS and learned that our accounting period had indeed been changed to a fiscal year and that we needed to submit a 990EZ form for the short year of Jan 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023. We request that all late filing penalties and interest accrued be abated, since we were unaware that our accounting period had changed.