According to federal tax data, People of Parkside Sunset, the nonprofit of which District 4 supervisor hopeful Albert Chow serves as president, has not filed tax returns for years.
On both the Internal Revenue Service’s tax exempt organization search and ProPublica’s nonprofit explorer, the most recent return for People of Parkside Sunset is from 2019. The San Francisco OpenData website records the nonprofit receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in city funds during this time period.
Chow acknowledged that the nonprofit — which goes by the acronym POPS and is also known as the Taraval Parkside Merchants Association — has not always filed its federal returns. “POPS did file previously but also skipped a few years too, that is my fault,” he texted Mission Local. “I plain forgot. It was brought to my attention and I’m going to ask my accountant to get me those missing filings done.”…