Sunflower GRP Budget and Finances

Sunflower Budget Philosophy

Because we are a values-based party, the GRP has attempted to ground our budgetary process in the 10 key values. The GRP budget therefore begins with something unusual, a philosophy:

Click here for:   GRP Budget Philosophy



Sunflower Budget Process


In order to implement this philosophy (see above), the GRP state committee approved a new budgetary process in Sept 2002 and has modified it a number of times since then.

The most important features of this new process are:

  • requests come from and are allocated to committees (decentralization)
  • allocations are prioritized into tiers (visibility and accountability)
  • sustainable spending controls (responsibility)

  • Click here for:   2004 Budget Process (Current)


    Click here for:   2003 Budget Process (Historical)



    Sunflower Reimbursement and In Kind Donations

    If you spend your own money on goods or services that has been approved by the party and you want to get reimbursed, you will need to provide a copy of the receipt along with a filled out Reimbursement Form available below.

    Click here for:   Reimbursement Form

    An In Kind donation is when someone spends money for goods or services that are for the party, but does not want to be reimbursed. State and federal law dictates that we must track and report these amounts. Please fill out an In Kind Donation Form and send in along with a copy of the receipt.

    Click here for:   In Kind Donation Form



    Sunflower GRP Budgets


    Now here is what you probably came here for, the actual 2003 and 2004 GRP budgets:

    Click here for:   2004 Budget (Current)


    Click here for:   2003 Budget (Historical)



    Sunflower Budget Reports

    2002 Donation Summary
    2003 Donation Summary

    Spending Allocation Summary (Start of 2003)
    Spending Allocation Summary (January 2003)
    Spending Allocation Summary (February 2003)
    Spending Allocation Summary (March 2003)
    Spending Allocation Summary (April 2003)
    Spending Allocation Summary (May 2003)
    Spending Allocation Summary (June 2003)
    Spending Allocation Summary (July 2003)

    Sunflower Balance Sheet and Income/Expense Reports

    The Balance Sheet and Income/Expense reports are exported from QuickBooks. They are organized into folders by year and month. They are PDF (Portable Document Format) files (click here to get a copy of a free PDF viewer if you do not have one).

    Click here to get to the folders that have the reports. Use your browser's back button to navigate back up from a particular folder.