2026-08-26T14:06:15-07:00 2025-12-31 Accounting Period - See Schedule O Crosby & Kaneda CPAs LLP 548 Market St PMB 97503 San Francisco CA 94104 990 2025-01-01 844846165 Sonoma Valley Authors Festival SONO 7072829028 3053 Fillmore St 244 San Francisco CA 94123 Virginia Freeman Treas/Secretary 2026-08-26 true August Zajonc CPA P01218603 5108352727 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Reuel David Freeman 3053 Fillmore St 244 San Francisco CA 94123 1454735 false X www.svauthorsfest.org X 2020 CA The Sonoma Valley Authors Festival(SVAF)has five parts: the Festival, Students Day, Authors on the Plaza, the Virtual Festival, and Special Events. 5 5 0 66 0 819491 1134242 239270 316750 897 185 2068 3558 1061726 1454735 0 0 0 0 115915 954425 1334364 954425 1334364 107301 120371 518566 625600 666911 653574 -148345 -27974 The Sonoma Valley Authors Festival(SVAF)has five parts: the Festival, Students Day, Authors on the Plaza, the Virtual Festival, and Special Events. false false 1016889 316750 The Sonoma Valley Authors Festival (SVAF) has four parts: The Festival, Students Day, Authors on the Plaza, and The Virtual Festival (SVAF 360). Our mission is to focus on two things while implementing all parts of the Festival: stimulating the minds and nurturing the souls of readers and enriching students and featuring possibilities for future careers through exposure to authors and thought leaders in science, technology, and medicine.We hosted the 3-day Festival from May 2-4, 2025, at the Sonoma Mission Inn for over 350 attendees. Twenty-five presentations were made by authors, who had written a book, and thought leaders in science, technology, and medicine in TED-talk style. All presentations were video-recorded.Students Day at Sonoma Valley High School featured six different authors and over 1,000 of their books were given away free to over 1,500 students. Students Day at the elementary schools featured a local Sonoma children's book author who made presentations at five schools to over 600 kids. Over 2,000 free books were distributed to the kids who attended the presentations as well as to schools who were unable to schedule the live presentations. All elementary school libraries received copies of several of the authors titles.Three of our authors spoke for free for three hours to over 1,000 community members at the Sonoma Plaza - the 8-acre town square with towering trees and manicured lawn. Over 1,000 books from previous years were given away free to the attendees. The Virtual Festival - video-recordings of all of the Festival presentations were made available free online for one month after the live Festival was over. 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Tax years 2021 - 2023 capture totals for 01/01/21 to 12/31/23. Current year 2025 captures new fiscal year 07/01/24 - 06/30/25. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 14056 11364 2692 2692 X 4 271042 FMV false false false Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Virginia G Freeman and R David Freeman are married. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Copies emailed to all Board Members for correction or comment prior to filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Any conflict of interest issues are discussed as part of board policy. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 As required by the Nonprofit Integrity Act in California and IRS regulations, certain documents are available to the public upon request. Accounting Period Covered The Organization's previous return for the period ending 6/30/2024 was accepted by the IRS. Despite the acceptance showing a June fiscal year-end the IRS e-file database requires a December fiscal year-end date for this filing. To avoid a gap in reporting this filing reflects the activity for the period 7/1/2024-6/30/2025.