2025-10-15T12:05:57-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 862684275 Together in Service TOGE 3235779330 837 W Washington Blvd Los Angeles CA 90007 Mimi Brand Secretary 2134625340 2025-10-14 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z SWOPLA Kimberly Ye 2201 Juliet St Los Angeles CA 90007 310016 0 X swoplosangeles.org X 2021 NV SWOPLA is a by sex work, for sex worker mutual aid and peer support organization. It is our mission to improve the lives and well-being of sex workers in Los Angeles and throughout the world, especially those most vulnerable to violence. Our core strategies in pursuing that work include outreach, community building, political advocacy, and art, research, and public education. 3 2 0 40 0 0 270113 310016 0 0 0 0 0 0 270113 310016 5596 13614 0 0 0 60946 0 519 3566 96070 120627 101666 195706 168447 114310 181154 250692 0 0 181154 250692 X SWOPLA stands for Sex Workers Outreach Project Los Angeles. We are a peer support organization, run by sex workers and for sex workers. Our mission is to pursue our human rights to bodily autonomy, racial and social justice, and mutual liberation through outreach, education, mutual aid and political advocacy. Our vision is to usher in the reality where all sex workers are respected. 0 0 49518 0 0 SWLEARN - Sex Worker Lived Experience Affirming Research Network -- Collaborating with UCLA, UCSF, and two other Los Angeles-based community organizations, Together in Service is undergoing a multi-year HIV intervention adaptation and implementation science research project. We are aiming to administer a six-session workshop series to over 100 trans women of color who do sex work in Los Angeles county and measure how effective that workshop series is in improving several public health-related outcomes, including relating to HIV treatment and prevention. In 2024, we finished adapting the intervention we had chosen using the ADAPT-ITT framework, prepared to begin running the sessions, prepared materials for Institutional Review Board approval, and scheduled a site visit with the funder, California HIV/AIDS Research Program. In the longer term, we hope this project will both provide a tested workshop series for people to run in the future, as well as help to show that research based on community collaborations that is led by the sub-population of interest can lead to higher quality research overall. 69465 0 0 SWANS - Sex Worker Abortion Navigation Services -- Thanks to California's Abortion Practical Support Fund (and the elbow grease of our stipended volunteers -- & the unpaid volunteers who came before them), we are able to help provide practical support to sex workers facing difficult circumstances who are seeking to obtain lawful abortions in California. We have a team of peer navigators who are trained and equipped to help arrange--and pay for, as necessary--appointments, after care, childcare, lodging, transportion, or any other urgent needs that are preventing someone from obtaining an abortion. In 2024, we helped connect dozens of people to sexual and reproductive health services, including by directly aiding clients seeking abortion care, and helped train several sex workers in how to assist members of their communities in obtaining reproductive health care. 17412 0 0 Sex Worker Parent Project - In 2024, our Sex Worker Parent Project published the Magazine "ProMomme: A Sex Workers' Guide to Parenting", and worked on filming a documentary about the process of creating and publishing "ProMomme." The Zine was published in August of 2024, with co-publishers Sming Sming and Cash Machine; and we held a reading of works from the Zine at Cash Machine's storefront, featuring dozens of audience members. We aim to finish and promote the documentary, and to publish a second volume of "ProMomme," featuring more voices from our under-represented community. In the long term, we hope to build community between sex worker parents, and destigmatize the choices of sex workers to have kids or of parents to do sex work. 30642 0 0 In addition to our three largest programs, we offer a wide variety of programming in the areas of community building, outreach, direct service provision, and art, research, public education, and political advocacy. Our longest running programs include our monthly general meetings, bi-weekly virtual support groups, regular community building events like potlucks and clothing swaps, and our website where users can find our Bad Date List and extensive and regularly updated resource list. 30642 0 0 167037 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 3 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 CA X Together in Service 3235779330 837 W Washington Blvd Los Angeles CA 90007 Kimberly Fuentes Treasurer 12 0 X 34668 0 0 Mimi Brand Secretary 12.00 0 X 17595 0 0 Kimberly Ye President & Board Member 6 X X 8684 0 0 Lauren Levitt Board Member 0 X 0 0 0 Nancy Castillo Board Member 0 X 0 0 0 60947 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 207013 103003 0 310016 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 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 310016 0 0 0 X 0 0 13614 13614 0 0 0 0 60946 42663 15236 3047 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9867 0 9867 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 519 519 0 0 0 0 88104 88104 0 0 4536 4536 0 0 4649 4649 0 0 2322 2322 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4943 4943 0 0 0 0 0 0 80 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bank Charges & Fees, Taxes, Licenses 120 120 0 0 Working Meals & Food 2341 2341 0 0 Event Costs 3665 3665 0 0 195706 167037 25103 3566 181154 250692 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 181154 250692 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 181154 250692 0 0 181154 250692 181154 250692 X 114310 0 0 0 0 -44772 X 0 0 0 X 0 5616 23370 270113 310016 609115 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5616 23370 270113 310016 609115 609115 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5487 0 0 0 5487 614602 17487 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 Virtually all of our financial support comes from individual donations or grants from public charities or governmental units. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 330 330 660 195046 195706 39141 9785 0 0 1123 4661 54022 39141 98947 148421 0 330 660 660 1650 281 1165 13505 9785 24736 37104 0 165 330 330 825 1 Cash Aid for Street-Based Community Members 120 2400 0 Abortion Practical Support 3 0 3742 Cost Client expenses covered by the program ProMomme Creative Project Participant Stipends 16 4251 0 Participation and contribution stipends Other participation stipends and access expenses 16 3113 108 Cost Transport expense reimbursement Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 Three of our programs involve provide direct cash payments as grants or assistance. Our Street-Based Cash program distributes $20 per person during our outreach strolls, where we share harm reduction and safety information with sex workers who are working outdoors at night. Our Abortion Practical Support program provides a variety of practical support to sex workers seeking lawful abortions in California with unmet practical needs, such as by booking transportation, paying for post-abortion care supplies or paying for childcare while a parent is undergoing their procedure and recovering. We also provided various participation stipends and expense reimbursements for SWOPLA volunteers engaging in art, outreach, and public health programming, including related to the above programs. Form 990, Part III, Line 4d In addition to our three largest programs, we offer a wide variety of programming in the areas of community building, outreach, direct service provision, and art, research, public education, and political advocacy. Our longest running programs include our monthly general meetings, bi-weekly virtual support groups, regular community building events like potlucks and clothing swaps, and our website where users can find our Bad Date List and extensive and regularly updated resource list. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 Our organization is led by our members, which are comprised of sex workers and supporters who have participated in our programming. Our bylaws require us to give any LA-based sex worker who attends two or more of our general meetings membership (including a vote), and we frequently invite and allow other supporters to become members as well. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7a Our Board Members, Officers, and other less formal leaders of our organization are elected by our members during our regularly scheduled monthly meetings. Any member can nominate any other member for any such role, and propose the creation of new roles -- or destruction of old ones -- at any time. (Though it might trigger a complicated discussion!) Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7b Major decisions, such as to dissolve, wind down, or cease operations; to change our mission statement or exempt purposes; or to change rules regarding membership voting or qualifications; all require membership approval. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Secretary Mimi Brand emailed a final draft of this form with all schedules attached to each Board of Directors Member, & waited for confirmation of review of such from all Board Members before submitting for filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 Upon any change in compensation arrangement or new compensation arrangement, such arrangement must be reviewed by a specific body of SWOPLA members, considering fair market rate for comparable services, and approved by non-conflicted members of such body. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 We have a publicly published email and Instagram account that we monitor, where any requests to view our publicly available documents will be honored. We also hold public meetings of our members and supporters where we discuss business matters and likewise honor requests to review our publicly available documents. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g IX 11g - 88104 (Other fees for services): Service Fees: 4,000 - Program development consultant for SWANS program 258 - RASI Corporate Services; Stipends for Volunteers as Independent Contractors (other than to Officers): 9,992 - Stipends for public health outreach in response to Mpox outbreak 630 - Bookkeeping stipends 400 - Media & Communications stipends 49 - Other outreach stipends 52489 - SWANS Peer Navigator Stipends 15,833 - SWLEARN stipends 3,653 - Sex Worker Parent Project Stipends 250 - Stroll Volunteer Stipends 550 - Support Group Leader Stipends Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 XI 9 - Our former fiscal sponsor wrongfully deposited 44,747 into our bank account that was intended for another fiscal sponsee. We received the funds in 2023, and returned such funds in 2024 after being alerted to the error. We are e-filing on October 15th, 2025, in the morning, despite difficulties attempting to use ID.Me to file yesterday! Hopefully this is received in a timely manner.